SAT 2/25

1. Reparations
2. Treaty
3. Transient
4. Literate
5. Plateau

Compromises

Compromise of 1850: defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas avoided secession or civil war at the time and quieted sectional conflict for four years.


Compromise of 1877: also known as the Corrupt Bargain, refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.


Great Compromise:  was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives.

Political Machines

A political machine is a disciplined political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. 

Pronoun POV Practice

Accepting who one is shows gratitude for being born into this world. Changing who one is for the benefit of others is displaying a sense of ungratefulness and lack of self-confidence. Why not be proud of one's identity? Who is to say he or she is nobody just because of his or her skin tone? The person who says it is exposing himself or herself as a hypocrite unworthy of someone's presence.

SAT Week 25

1. When Johnny hurled a cupcake across the cafeteria, no one could have ever imagined the severity of the food fight that would _ensue_.

2. Joanie always felt the presence of _serendipity_ in her life; she found a one hundred dollar bill as a child, she found a 2,000 dollar Coheri Indian Warhead as a teen, and she first met her future millionaire husband in Burger King.

3. After losing four straight times to the school's number one tennis player, Jake's _morale_ finally plummeted, so he decided not to play him anymore and risk embarrassment.

4. After living in Las Vegas, Nevada for three years, Jenni's _morals_ changed as she no longer found fault in many things she used to when living at home, such as gambling and regular consumption of alcohol.

5. If Tahler and Dan were to incite their classmates to storm The White House and burn it down, this would be a form of _sedition_.

Goal

To not fail.

SAT Practice

1. D
2. B