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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Gettysburg
Trust
John Cabot
2. Submitted by Benjamin Franklin to the 1754 gathering of colonial delegates in Albany - New York. The plan called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. Although the delegates in Albany approved the plan - the col
Albany Plan
Samuel de Champlain
Iran-Contra affair
Cuban Missile Crisis
3. The nickname of the Progressive Republican Party - led by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. This party had the best showing of any third party in the history of the US. Its emergence dramatically weakened the Republican Party and allowed the D
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John Steinbeck
Bull Moose Party
To Secure These Rights
4. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
Brown v Board of Ed
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nuremburg Trials
5. One of the best known writers of the 1920s' "lost generation." An expatriate - he produced a number of famous works during the 1920s - including The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). A member of the Popular Front - he fought in the
Smith-Connolly Act
Nuremburg Trials
Ernest Hemingway
Ross Perot
6. Ronald Reagan's economic philosophy which held that a capitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive. Reagan believed that the prosperity of the rich upper class would "trickle down" to the poor.
Anti-Saloon League
Reaganomics
Andrew Carnegie
Sedition Amendment
7. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
The Beats
Fidel Castro
Susan B. Anthony
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
8. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
George Bush
Jane Addams
Nuremburg Trials
Fidel Castro
9. A leader of the transcendentalist movemetn and an advocate of American literary nationalism. He published a number of influential essays during the 1830s and 1840s - including "Nature" and "Self Reliance."
Detente
Roger Williams
Atlantic Charter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Son of John Adams and president from 1825 to 1829. As James Monroe's secretary of state - he workerd to expand the nation's borders and authorized the Monroe Doctrine. His presidency was largely ineffectie due to lack of popular support; Congress blo
John Quincy Adams
Salutary neglect
Andrew Carnegie
John Brown
11. Founded in 1886 - this organization sought to organize craft unions into a federation. The loose structure of the organization differed from its rival - the Knights of Labor - in that it allowed individual unions to remain autonomous. Eventually the
Allies
Black codes
AFL
Atlantic Charter
12. Defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. The ordinace forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established.
Northwest Ordinance
Susan B. Anthony
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of the Bulge
13. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
William Randolph Hearst
Lost generation
John Adams
Pendleton Act
14. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
Bill of Rights
H. L. Mencken
Checks and balances
Deists
15. Passed in 1854. The act divided the Nebraska territory into two parts - Kansas and Nebraska - and left the issue of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty. It nullified the prohibition of slavery above the 36 30' latitude est
Silent Spring
William Randolph Hearst
Treaty of Ghent
Kansas-Nebraska Act
16. A meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 - in which the New England-based party enumerated its complaints against the ruling Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists - already losing power steadily - hoped that antiwar sentiment w
Henry Clay
Gag rule
Hartford Convention
Kansas-Nebraska Act
17. The final German offensive in Western Europe - lasting from December 16 - 1944 - to January 16 - 1945. Hitler amassed his last reserves against Allied troops in France. Germany made a substantial dent in the Allied front line - but the Allies recover
Salutary neglect
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Clay
Popular Front
18. A group of zealous Chinese nationalists terrorized foreigners and Chinese Christians - capturing Beijing (Peking) in June 1900 and threatening European and American interests in Chinese markets. The US committed 2 -500 men to an international force t
Henry David Thoreau
William Jennings Bryan
Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Imperialist League
19. During ratification - these people opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the federal government too much political - economic - and military control. They instead advocated a decentralized governmental structure that granted the most p
Economic Opportunity Act
Henry Clay
Albany Plan
Anti-federalists
20. A series of investigations in 1987 exposed evidence that the US had been selling arms to the anti-American government in Iran and using the profits from these sales to secretly and illegally finance the Contras in Nicaragua. (The Contras were a rebel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Iran-Contra affair
Treaty of Ghent
House Un-American Activities Committee
21. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
James Fenimore Cooper
Black Panthers
Pendleton Act
Alger Hiss
22. The popular name for the Kansas Territory in 1856 after abolitionist John Brown led a massacre at a pro-slavery camp - setting off waves of violence. Brown's massacre was in protest to the recent establishment of Kansas as a slave state. Pro-slavery
Mercantilism
J. Edgar Hoover
Bleeding Kansas
Missouri Compromise
23. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Assembly line
Anti-federalists
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Chinese Exclusion Act
24. A moderate Democrat with support from both the North and South who served as president of the US from 1857 to 1861. He could not stem the tide of sectional conflict that eventually erupted into Civil War.
Quasi-war
CIA
James Buchanan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
25. Andrew Jackon's 1832 veto of the proposed charter renewal for the Second Bank of the United States. The veto marked the beginning of Jackon's five-year battle against the national bank.
New Look
Bank veto
The Feminine Mystique
Mutual Assured Destruction
26. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel de Champlain
Inflation
Antietam
27. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
Anti-Saloon League
Sedition Amendment
First Great Awakening
Specie Circular
28. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Anti-federalists
Bay of Pigs
Black codes
William Randolph Hearst
29. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Stokely Carmichael
First Great Awakening
Civil Rights Act
Popular Front
30. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Anti-Saloon League
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gag rule
Bleeding Kansas
31. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Gulf War
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Students for a Democratic Society
Samuel de Champlain
32. Written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. Exposed the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT. Carson's book helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among the American people.
Silent Spring
Bank of the United States
Articles of Confederation
Battle of Britain
33. Created by FDR to cope with the added economic difficulties brought on by the cold winter months of 1933. The organization spent approximately $1 billion on short-term projects for the unemployed but was abolished in the spring of that year.
Civil Works Administration
Popular Front
Tippecanoe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
J. Robert Oppenheimer
35. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Carpetbaggers
Berlin Blockade
H. L. Mencken
36. A conglomerate of businesses that tends to reduce market competition. During the Industrial Age - many entrepreneurs consolidated their businesses into these in order to gain control of the market and amass great profit - often at the expense of poor
Trust
Samuel de Champlain
American System
Brown v Board of Ed
37. A prominent transcendentalist writer. Two of his most famous writings are Civil Disobediance (1849) and Walden (1854). He advocatd living life according to one's conscience - removed from materialism and repressive social codes.
Palmer Raids
Henry David Thoreau
Berlin Blockade
CIA
38. Nickname given to northerners who moved South during Reconstruction in search of political and economic opportunity. The term was coined by Southern Democrats - who said that these northern opportunists had left home so quickly that they were able to
House Un-American Activities Committee
Carpetbaggers
Smith Act
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
39. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Central Powers
John Cabot
Bleeding Kansas
Sedition Amendment
40. In 1962 - a year after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion - the US government learned that Soviet missile bases were being constructed in Cuba. President JFK demanded that the USSR stop shipping military equipment to Cuba and remove the bases. US forces
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ernest Hemingway
Dynamic conservatism
Trust
41. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
New Look
James Buchanan
Mutual Assured Destruction
Anti-Imperialist League
42. A fiction writer who gained popularity in the 1840s for his horrific tales. He published many famous stories - including "The Raven" (1844) and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
Jane Addams
Roger Williams
Edgar Allen Poe
Smith-Connolly Act
43. A name for the trade routes that linked England - its colonies in North America - the West Indies - and Africa. At each port - shipes were unloaded of goods from another port along the trade route - and then re-loaded with goods particular to that si
To Secure These Rights
Civil Works Administration
Triangular Trade
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. Advocated isolationism and opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Committee members urged neutrality - claiming that the US could stand alone regardless of Hitler's advances in Europe.
Committee to Defend America First
H. L. Mencken
Treaty of San Lorenzo
The Age of Reason
45. Began when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990. In January 1991 - the US attacked Iraqi troops - supply lines - and bases. In late February - US ground troops launched an attack on Kuwait City - successfully driving out Hussein'
Treaty of Ghent
Gettysburg
Hartford Convention
Gulf War
46. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
Boxer Rebellion
Earl Warren
John Cabot
Smith Act
47. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mercantilism
Berlin Blockade
Bank veto
48. Democratic candidate for president in 1896. His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator - he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president in
William Jennings Bryan
Allies
Atlantic Charter
The Feminine Mystique
49. America's second president - served from 1797 to 1801. A federalist - he supported a powerful centralized government. His most notable actions in office were the undertakng of the quasi-war with France and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Dynamic conservatism
John Adams
Gag rule
James Fenimore Cooper
50. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
Puritans
Specie Circular
Brown v Board of Ed