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Questions 3–5 refer to the following map.

3. According to the map, which two Northeast

states were the only states to lose population

between 1970 and 1980?

(A) New York and Pennsylvania

(B) Massachusetts and Rhode Island

(C) New York and Rhode Island

(D) Pennsylvania and Rhode Island

(E) Massachusetts and Pennsylvania

Explanation of Answers for

Practice Set 3

QUICK-SCORE ANSWERS

1. C 4. E

2. C 5. C

3. C

1. The correct answer is (C). Logic tips the scale toward choice

Test-Taking Strategy

(C) as the answer because these are state resolutions. Because

Thinking about the time

the question is about the period of the early republic and these

frame of a question can help

you sort through the answer

are Southern states, they would be trying to further states’ rights

choices when you are not

and not the power of the president or of the Supreme Court.

sure of the correct answer.

Therefore, logic indicates that choices (A) and (E) are incorrect.

Popular sovereignty, choice (D), is a later development of the

nineteenth century to solve the slavery question. Choice (B) does

not make sense.

2. The correct answer is (C). The “Solid South” is a term used to

refer to Southern politics after Reconstruction. In an effort to rid

themselves of the Republican governments that were imposed

during Radical Reconstruction, most Southern men joined the

Democratic Party. In 1928, Herbert Hoover was able to break

this Democratic hold over the South in his defeat of Al Smith.

Although Smith lost the rural and small-town Southern vote, he

attracted to the Democratic Party city dwellers, Catholics,

immigrants, and the working class.

3. The correct answer is (C). Questions 3, 4, and 5 are straight-

forward questions that ask you to read the map and choose the

correct answer based on what you see.

4. The correct answer is (E).

5. The correct answer is (C).

Chapter 2

REVIEWING THE COLONIAL PERIOD

TO 1789

The following review of Native American peoples, European explora-

tion and colonization, the expansion of the thirteen original English

colonies, the movement toward independence, and the beginning of

the new nation highlights key events and people. According to the

College Board, approximately 20 percent of the SAT II: U.S. History

Test is drawn from this period.