SDC ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ The Cowboy and multiculturalism.
Answer: Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great
Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s; the
vaqueros (Mexican Cowboys) were the original cowboys who taught others
in America to cowboy; was seen as manly and tough
◍ NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act).
Answer: Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum
wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
◍ 1968 Olympics.
Answer: Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised a black-gloved fist
(the sign for black power) as National Anthem was played. Event resulted in
the two men being removed from US Olympic Track Team.
◍ Aretha Franklin.
Answer: "The Queen of Soul," she began singing gospel music at an early
age and had several hit records with Atlantic, including "Respect" in 1967
and "Think" in 1968.
◍ New South.
Answer: After the Civil War, southerners promoted a new vision for a
self-sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial
growth, and improved transportation.
◍ Ku Klux Klan.
Answer: A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used
terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil
rights.
,◍ Middlebrow Culture.
Answer: Appeals to both the masses and the elite
◍ Agricultural Depression.
Answer: farmers went into debt during WWI trying to buy more land and
equipment during the war, prices of crops drop after war
◍ Reconstruction Amendments.
Answer: 13th: abolished slavery 14th: citizenship rights and equal
protection15th: prohibits each government in the United States to prevent a
citizen from voting based on their race
◍ Roe v. Wade (1973).
Answer: Abortion rights fall within the privacy implied in the 14th
amendment
◍ My Lai Massacre (1968).
Answer: Military assault in a small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968,
in which American soldiers under the command of 2nd Lieutenant William
Calley murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women
and children. The atrocity produced outrage and reduced support for the war
in America and around the world when details of the massacre and an
attempted cover-up were revealed in 1971.
◍ Eugene
V. Debs.
Answer: Debs helped motivate the American left to organize political
opposition to corporations and World War I. American socialists,
communists, and anarchists honor his work for the labor movement and
motivation to have the average working man build socialism without large
state involvement.
◍ Birth of a Nation.
Answer: Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film
directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda
and revived the KKK.
,◍ Hollywood Ten and Blacklisting.
Answer: a blacklist in Hollywood that contained the names of people who
were thought to put communist activities in their movies or shows; people
wouldn't be able to get jobs once put on the blacklist
◍ Transcontinental Railroads.
Answer: a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the
West; opened new markets and helped spur the Industrial Revolution
◍ Lost Cause Myth.
Answer: white southerners romanticized Civil War, looked back at the old
south nostalgically, Confederate heroes looked at with reverence; Civil War
was not about slavery
◍ Open Range Cattle.
Answer: The roaming of cattle across large open areas, leading to the ability
to maintain a greater number of them, and thus creating a need for cowboys
in the meat industry, creating jobs for people moving west as well as
contributing to the myth of cowboys in the west; ended due to expansion of
railroads and invention of barbed wire
◍ Third Great Awakening.
Answer: 1880-1910- new denominations, very active missionary work,and
also the social Gospel approach to social issues
◍ Atlanta Compromise Speech.
Answer: a speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895 at the Cotton
States and international Exposition that proposed that blacks and whites
should agree to benefit from each other
◍ Suburbanization.
Answer: More and more Americans moved to suburbs after WWII (cars,
Interstate Highway System, Levittown)
◍ Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Answer: Legislation that requires employers to pay men and women equal
, pay for equal work
◍ What statement is and example of the supervisor role in classificaiton?.
Answer: The supervisor has no respsponsibility for determining the title ,
series and grade of position.The supervisor may not request assistance from
CPAC during the classificaiton process*The supervior assists in determining
whether a a poisiton proper FLSA degination is exempt or non-exemptA
supervisor is not requires to analyze the job duties and compare those duties
to the classificaiton standards
◍ Franklin
D. Roosevelt (FDR).
Answer: 32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the
nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during
most of WWII
◍ Martin Luther King Jr..
Answer: U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he
opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance
and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
◍ ICC.
Answer: Interstate Commerce Commission, a federal regulatory agency that
governed over the rules and regulations of the railroading industry.
◍ What is the goal when workforce planniing.
Answer: Match the right person to the right job at the right time
◍ NYA (National Youth Administration).
Answer: Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time
jobs for needy students
◍ Panama Canal.
Answer: The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker
passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. Columbians would
not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ The Cowboy and multiculturalism.
Answer: Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great
Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s; the
vaqueros (Mexican Cowboys) were the original cowboys who taught others
in America to cowboy; was seen as manly and tough
◍ NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act).
Answer: Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum
wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
◍ 1968 Olympics.
Answer: Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised a black-gloved fist
(the sign for black power) as National Anthem was played. Event resulted in
the two men being removed from US Olympic Track Team.
◍ Aretha Franklin.
Answer: "The Queen of Soul," she began singing gospel music at an early
age and had several hit records with Atlantic, including "Respect" in 1967
and "Think" in 1968.
◍ New South.
Answer: After the Civil War, southerners promoted a new vision for a
self-sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial
growth, and improved transportation.
◍ Ku Klux Klan.
Answer: A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used
terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil
rights.
,◍ Middlebrow Culture.
Answer: Appeals to both the masses and the elite
◍ Agricultural Depression.
Answer: farmers went into debt during WWI trying to buy more land and
equipment during the war, prices of crops drop after war
◍ Reconstruction Amendments.
Answer: 13th: abolished slavery 14th: citizenship rights and equal
protection15th: prohibits each government in the United States to prevent a
citizen from voting based on their race
◍ Roe v. Wade (1973).
Answer: Abortion rights fall within the privacy implied in the 14th
amendment
◍ My Lai Massacre (1968).
Answer: Military assault in a small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968,
in which American soldiers under the command of 2nd Lieutenant William
Calley murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women
and children. The atrocity produced outrage and reduced support for the war
in America and around the world when details of the massacre and an
attempted cover-up were revealed in 1971.
◍ Eugene
V. Debs.
Answer: Debs helped motivate the American left to organize political
opposition to corporations and World War I. American socialists,
communists, and anarchists honor his work for the labor movement and
motivation to have the average working man build socialism without large
state involvement.
◍ Birth of a Nation.
Answer: Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film
directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda
and revived the KKK.
,◍ Hollywood Ten and Blacklisting.
Answer: a blacklist in Hollywood that contained the names of people who
were thought to put communist activities in their movies or shows; people
wouldn't be able to get jobs once put on the blacklist
◍ Transcontinental Railroads.
Answer: a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the
West; opened new markets and helped spur the Industrial Revolution
◍ Lost Cause Myth.
Answer: white southerners romanticized Civil War, looked back at the old
south nostalgically, Confederate heroes looked at with reverence; Civil War
was not about slavery
◍ Open Range Cattle.
Answer: The roaming of cattle across large open areas, leading to the ability
to maintain a greater number of them, and thus creating a need for cowboys
in the meat industry, creating jobs for people moving west as well as
contributing to the myth of cowboys in the west; ended due to expansion of
railroads and invention of barbed wire
◍ Third Great Awakening.
Answer: 1880-1910- new denominations, very active missionary work,and
also the social Gospel approach to social issues
◍ Atlanta Compromise Speech.
Answer: a speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895 at the Cotton
States and international Exposition that proposed that blacks and whites
should agree to benefit from each other
◍ Suburbanization.
Answer: More and more Americans moved to suburbs after WWII (cars,
Interstate Highway System, Levittown)
◍ Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Answer: Legislation that requires employers to pay men and women equal
, pay for equal work
◍ What statement is and example of the supervisor role in classificaiton?.
Answer: The supervisor has no respsponsibility for determining the title ,
series and grade of position.The supervisor may not request assistance from
CPAC during the classificaiton process*The supervior assists in determining
whether a a poisiton proper FLSA degination is exempt or non-exemptA
supervisor is not requires to analyze the job duties and compare those duties
to the classificaiton standards
◍ Franklin
D. Roosevelt (FDR).
Answer: 32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the
nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during
most of WWII
◍ Martin Luther King Jr..
Answer: U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he
opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance
and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
◍ ICC.
Answer: Interstate Commerce Commission, a federal regulatory agency that
governed over the rules and regulations of the railroading industry.
◍ What is the goal when workforce planniing.
Answer: Match the right person to the right job at the right time
◍ NYA (National Youth Administration).
Answer: Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time
jobs for needy students
◍ Panama Canal.
Answer: The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker
passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. Columbians would
not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United
