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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
Lost generation
Civil Rights Act
Detente
Stokely Carmichael
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
First Great Awakening
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cash-and-carry
Taft-Hartley Act
3. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
AAA
Black Panthers
Great Society
4. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Henry Cabot Lodge
House Un-American Activities Committee
Carpetbaggers
H. L. Mencken
5. Formed in the absence of support form the British crown - these companies accrued funding for colonization through the sale of public stock. They dominated English colonization throughout the seventeenth century.
John Adams
Joint-stock companies
William Jennings Bryan
Berlin Wall
6. Founded on the premise that the "perfect" human society could be achieved through genetic tinkering. Popularized during the Progressive Era - writers on this subject often used this theory to justify a supremacist white Protestant ideology - which ad
Eugenics
Taft-Hartley Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
George Bush
7. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Berlin Wall
William Jennings Bryan
John Cabot
8. A protest against the 1773 Tea Act - which allowed Britain to use the profits from selling tea to pay the salaries of royal governers. In December 1773 - Samuel Adams gathered Boston residents and warned them of the consequences of the Tea Act. Follo
Boston Tea Party
Bay of Pigs
Mikhail Gorbachev
Hartford Convention
9. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
Henry David Thoreau
Bill of Rights
Boris Yeltsin
10. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Atlantic Charter
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kansas-Nebraska Act
11. 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.
Earl Warren
John Cabot
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Black Power
12. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Students for a Democratic Society
Assembly line
Pendleton Act
13. 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
Saddam Hussein
Eugenics
John Brown
Anti-federalists
14. 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
Smith Act
Committee to Defend America First
New Look
American System
15. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Berlin Blockade
Samuel de Champlain
16. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Detente
Bill of Rights
Lost generation
Quasi-war
17. Longtime government employee who - in 1948 - was accused by Time editor Whitaker Chambers of spying for the USSR. After a series of highly publicized hearings and trials - he was convicted of perjury in 1950 and sentenced to five years imprisonment -
Alger Hiss
Lost generation
Axis powers
American Civil Liberties Union
18. 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.
Horatio Alger
Central Powers
Ross Perot
Popular Front
19. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Black Power
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Earl Warren
Treaty of Ghent
20. Signed on Christmas Eve in 1815. Ended the War of 1812 and returned relations between the US and Britain to the way things were before the war.
Treaty of Ghent
Mikhail Gorbachev
Horatio Alger
Berlin Wall
21. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Treaty of Greenville
Tripartite Pact
Anti-Imperialist League
Jacques Cartier
22. Delegates from five states met in Annapolis in September 1786 to discuss interstate commerce. However - discussions of weaknesses in the government led them to suggest to Congress a new convention to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Annapolis Convention
Berlin Wall
Dynamic conservatism
23. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Great Society
Black Thursday
Mercantilism
Boston Massacre
24. 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
Lend-Lease Act
James Fenimore Cooper
John Brown
The Age of Reason
25. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Hartford Convention
Camp David Accords
Checks and balances
26. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
John Cabot
Economic Opportunity Act
Black Thursday
Sacco-Vanzetti case
27. 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.
Jimmy Carter
Winston Churchill
Bank veto
The Feminine Mystique
28. 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.
Gettysburg
CCC
Walt Whitman
Sedition Amendment
29. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
AFL
Great Society
Pendleton Act
30. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Mercantilism
Gag rule
31. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Northwest Ordinance
Stokely Carmichael
Students for a Democratic Society
J. Robert Oppenheimer
32. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Bill of Rights
Samuel de Champlain
The Beats
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
33. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
Tiananmen Sqaure
John Quincy Adams
Ross Perot
Alien and Sedition Acts
34. Crafted by Henry Clay and backed by the National Republican Party - this plan proposed a series of tariffs and federally funded transportation imporvements - geared toward acheiving national economic self-sufficiency.
Gulf War
American System
Albany Plan
Civil Rights Act
35. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Henry Clay
Checks and balances
Boris Yeltsin
Inflation
36. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Tiananmen Sqaure
Civil Rights Act
Nuremburg Trials
37. 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
Checks and balances
Nuremburg Trials
CCC
The Age of Reason
38. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Palmer Raids
Reaganomics
Deists
39. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
James Fenimore Cooper
Bleeding Kansas
Popular Front
40. Religious revivals on the frontier during the Second Great Awakening. Hundreds or even thousands of people- members of various dominations- met to hear speeches on repentance and sign hymns.
Camp meetings
William Jennings Bryan
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Alien and Sedition Acts
41. 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
Civil Rights Act
Pendleton Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
42. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Anti-federalists
Bleeding Kansas
Boxer Rebellion
43. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
Stokely Carmichael
Andrew Carnegie
Deists
44. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election - he failed to win the requisite majority and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams for
Corrupt bargain
Jane Addams
Bleeding Kansas
Albany Plan
45. Political figure throughout the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He served as James Monroe's secretary of war - as John Quincy Adam's vice president - and then as Andrew Jackson's vice president for one term. A firm believer in states' ri
Economic Opportunity Act
Henry Clay
The Awakening
John C. Calhoun
46. Passed in 1930. This act limited the right to strike in key industries and authorized the president to intervene in any strike - eroding the generally amiable relationship between the government and organized labor during World War II.
Smith Act
Black Thursday
Smith-Connolly Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
47. 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
Puritans
The Feminine Mystique
Dynamic conservatism
Battle of the Bulge
48. 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
Lend-Lease Act
William Jennings Bryan
Atlantic Charter
William Randolph Hearst
49. The English government's policy of not enforcing certain trade laws it imposed upon the American colonies throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The purpose of this policy was largely to ensure the loyalty of the colonies in
Great Society
Big stick diplomacy
Salutary neglect
Tippecanoe
50. 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
Joint-stock companies
Fidel Castro
Berlin Blockade
Carpetbaggers
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