SAT 201 | Reading Review | "History" Passages

The College Board selects historical documents from two primary sources

• The Great Global Conversation

• US Founding Documents

• Women's suffrage

• The abolition movement

Both these types of documents are political texts that address ideas and issues about liberty, equality, and fraternity.

• True

• False

The American Founding Documents, as the name suggests, are documents focusing on the formation and establishment of the United States and are mainly political texts from the 18th and 19th centuries.

• True

• False

Only US Founding passages deals with a liberal Western ideology

• True

• False

Both passage types focus on different parts of the world and different periods but often focus on the individual's rights and the relationships between individuals and the state.

• True

• False

Many of these passages come from the Founding Fathers of the US and discuss issues more familiar to American students than to international ones: questions of federalism and republicanism rarely come up in East Asian curricula.

• False

• True

The most significant and influential of US Founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers.

• True

• False

After America declared independence from England and fought a bloody war to ensure independence, the 13 original colonies wrote and approved a document called the Articles of Confederation.

• True

• False

The Articles of Confederation served as America’s constitution from 1781 until 1789, when it was replaced with the current version of the constitution. This original document was focused on preserving the rights of individual states and delegated little power to any central governing body (federalism). This means that for the first eight years, America was a confederation and not a federation as it is today. In effect, the governor of each “state” was the president of that “state” / “nation.”

• True

• False

Over time, the Articles (the confederate political system) proved to be inadequate to address the needs of the rapidly growing and expanding US, so the states decided to gather to discuss changes to the government.

• True

• False