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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. President of the Russian Republic in 1991 - when hard-line Communists attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. After helping to repel these hard-liners - he and the leaders of the other Soviet republics declared an end to the USSR - forcing Gorbache
Civil Rights Act
Boris Yeltsin
H. L. Mencken
Brown v Board of Ed
2. The centerpiece of a congressional effort to restrict union activity. The act - passed in 1947 - banned certain union practices and allowed the president to call for an eighty-day cooling off period to delay strikes thought to pose risks to national
Mutual Assured Destruction
Taft-Hartley Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Addams
3. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Reaganomics
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fidel Castro
4. An English explorer sponsered by the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 - he sailed up the river that now bears his name - nearly reaching present-day Albany. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.
Lend-Lease Act
Smith Act
John C. Calhoun
Henry Hudson
5. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Bacon's Rebellion
Hartford Convention
AAA
6. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
First Great Awakening
Quasi-war
Gag rule
Ernest Hemingway
7. 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
Carpetbaggers
Boston Massacre
Horatio Alger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Bacon's Rebellion
Bank veto
H. L. Mencken
9. Leader of a group of senators known as "reservationists" during the 1919 debate over the League of Nations. He and his followers supported US membership in the League only if major revisions were made to the covenant. President Wilson - however - ref
Leif Ericson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Smith-Connolly Act
Palmer Raids
10. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
Civil Rights Act
Baby boom
Corrupt bargain
11. Passed in March 1941. Allowed the president to lend or lease supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the US -" such as Britain - and was a key move in support ot the Allied cause before the US formally entered World War II. Was extende
Atomic Energy Commission
Lost generation
Lend-Lease Act
Henry David Thoreau
12. 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
Black Power
Triangular Trade
Atlantic Charter
Boston Tea Party
13. A small but prominent circle of writhers - poets - and intellectuals during the 1920s. Artists like Ernest Hemingway - F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Ezra Pound grew disillusioned with America's postwar culture - finding it overly materialistic and spirit
Lend-Lease Act
The Feminine Mystique
The Awakening
Lost generation
14. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
Anti-Saloon League
Black Thursday
Camp David Accords
Henry Hudson
15. A religious zealot and an extreme abolitionist who believed God had ordained him to end slavery. In 1856 - he led an attack against pro-slavery government officials - killing five and sparking months of violence that earned the territory the name "Bl
John Brown
J. Edgar Hoover
Trust
Stokely Carmichael
16. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Popular Front
Reaganomics
Camp meetings
17. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
Mercantilism
Bill of Rights
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John C. Calhoun
18. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
Berlin Blockade
Chinese Exclusion Act
Boris Yeltsin
Tripartite Pact
19. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Samuel de Champlain
Puritans
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quasi-war
20. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were charged with murder in Massachusetts in 1920 and sentenced to death. The case against them was circumstantial and poorly argued - although evidence now suggests that they were in fact guilty. It was significant -
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Sedition Amendment
Bacon's Rebellion
Popular Front
21. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Northwest Ordinance
Henry Hudson
To Secure These Rights
Triangular Trade
22. Constructed by the USSR and completed in August 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin. The wall cemented the poltical split of Berlin between the communist and authoritarian Eastand the capitalist and democratic West. The wall wa
Quasi-war
Mutual Assured Destruction
Berlin Wall
Henry Clay
23. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
Susan B. Anthony
Gag rule
Anti-federalists
The Beats
24. 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.
Boris Yeltsin
Jimmy Carter
Tripartite Pact
Silent Spring
25. A series of raids coordinated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Throughout 1910 - police and federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations in thirty-two cities. The raids resulted in more
Camp meetings
Nuremburg Trials
William Randolph Hearst
Palmer Raids
26. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
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27. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
The Beats
Popular Front
The Awakening
Treaty of Greenville
28. An important political figure during the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He engineered and championed the American System - a program aimed at economic self-sufficiency for the nation. As speaker of the house during Monroe's term in offi
Gag rule
Henry Clay
Black codes
Fidel Castro
29. 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
Articles of Confederation
Hartford Convention
John Quincy Adams
Detente
30. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
CCC
Corrupt bargain
Detente
Nuremburg Trials
31. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Earl Warren
Tippecanoe
Andrew Carnegie
32. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Assembly line
Jane Addams
John Brown
Helsinki Accords
33. 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."
Treaty of Greenville
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deists
Articles of Confederation
34. Founded in 1920 - this organization seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals - often by bringing "test cases" to court in order to challange questionable laws. In 1925 - the organization challanged a Christian fundamentalist law in the Sco
Anti-Imperialist League
Smith-Connolly Act
Berlin Blockade
American Civil Liberties Union
35. The alleged leader of a group of Vikings who sailed to the eastern coast of Canada and attempted - unsuccessfully - to colonize the area around the year 1000- nearly 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
Leif Ericson
Tippecanoe
Camp David Accords
Black Power
36. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Ernest Hemingway
Bacon's Rebellion
Gettysburg
37. Passed in 1940. This act made it illegal to speak of - or advocate - overthrowing the US government. During the presidential campaign of 1948 - Truman demonstrated his aggressive stance against communism by prosecuting eleven leaders of the Communist
Cuban Missile Crisis
Smith Act
Assembly line
Smith-Connolly Act
38. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
George Bush
AAA
Triangular Trade
39. 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
AFL
Articles of Confederation
Baby boom
Alien and Sedition Acts
40. 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.
Henry Clay
Northwest Ordinance
Camp meetings
Sacco-Vanzetti case
41. Passed in 1924. Established maximum quotas for immigration into the US. This law severely restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe - and excluded Asians entirely.
Boston Tea Party
Leif Ericson
National Origins Act
Albany Plan
42. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Gag rule
Battle of Britain
Anti-Imperialist League
Lost generation
43. 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
Roger Williams
Henry Cabot Lodge
Anti-federalists
American Civil Liberties Union
44. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
Gulf War
Chinese Exclusion Act
Stokely Carmichael
James Fenimore Cooper
45. 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
Jane Addams
Winston Churchill
Lost generation
Trust
46. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
Boston Massacre
Horatio Alger
Taft-Hartley Act
Shoot-on-sight order
47. Written by Kate Chopin in 1899. This novel portrays a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man - and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. It
Henry Cabot Lodge
Baby boom
The Awakening
CCC
48. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
The Age of Reason
Annapolis Convention
Puritans
Black Panthers
49. 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
Anti-federalists
Annapolis Convention
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Awakening
50. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Henry David Thoreau
House Un-American Activities Committee
William Randolph Hearst
Reaganomics
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