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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Quasi-war
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
Treaty of Greenville
Tiananmen Sqaure
Black codes
Central Powers
3. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Articles of Confederation
James Buchanan
Bank veto
4. 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.
Anti-Imperialist League
William Jennings Bryan
Smith Act
American System
5. 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.
Earl Warren
Missouri Compromise
Checks and balances
John Adams
6. 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
Antietam
Treaty of Greenville
Checks and balances
7. 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.
Ross Perot
Reaganomics
John Adams
Treaty of Ghent
8. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Samuel Adams
Popular Front
Smith Act
9. 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
Alger Hiss
Nuremburg Trials
Mercantilism
Silent Spring
10. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Boston Tea Party
Bill of Rights
Anti-Imperialist League
Treaty of San Lorenzo
11. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Winston Churchill
James Buchanan
John C. Calhoun
J. Robert Oppenheimer
12. Written by Betty Friedan in 1963. This book was a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement. It denounced the belief that women should be tied to the home and encouraged women to get involved in activities outside their home and family.
The Feminine Mystique
Stokely Carmichael
H. L. Mencken
New Look
13. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Jimmy Carter
Bull Moose Party
Jay's Treaty
14. Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Democratic-Republican support. On the grounds of "national security -" the acts increased the number of years required to gain citizenship - allowed for the imprisonment and depo
Alien and Sedition Acts
Henry David Thoreau
Big stick diplomacy
Black Panthers
15. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lost generation
Bank of the United States
16. 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
Bleeding Kansas
The Age of Reason
Big stick diplomacy
J. Edgar Hoover
17. 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.
Bill of Rights
Silent Spring
Brown v Board of Ed
Lend-Lease Act
18. 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
Checks and balances
John C. Calhoun
Palmer Raids
Quasi-war
19. In September 1939 - FDR persuaded Congress to pass a new - amended Neutrality Act - which allowed warring nations to purchase arms from the US as long as they paid in cash and carried the arms away on their own ships. This program allowed the US to a
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atomic Energy Commission
Cash-and-carry
Gag rule
20. 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
The Awakening
Susan B. Anthony
Boris Yeltsin
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
21. 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
Atlantic Charter
Trust
Antietam
The Feminine Mystique
22. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Ernest Hemingway
Jacques Cartier
Palmer Raids
23. 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.
Black codes
Henry Hudson
Sedition Amendment
Gettysburg
24. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Stokely Carmichael
Mutual Assured Destruction
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Quasi-war
25. 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
Smith Act
Boston Tea Party
Anti-federalists
Camp meetings
26. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tippecanoe
William Jennings Bryan
Bleeding Kansas
27. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Students for a Democratic Society
National Origins Act
Susan B. Anthony
Tippecanoe
28. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Lend-Lease Act
Deists
John Steinbeck
Puritans
29. 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
George Bush
American System
New Look
John Brown
30. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
House Un-American Activities Committee
Popular Front
AFL
31. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
The Rosenbergs
Camp meetings
Jimmy Carter
Peace Corps
32. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Axis powers
Great Society
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Corrupt bargain
33. 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
Popular Front
Articles of Confederation
Salutary neglect
Alger Hiss
34. 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
Camp meetings
New Look
Puritans
Pendleton Act
35. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Civil Works Administration
Boston Massacre
AFL
36. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Joint-stock companies
Shoot-on-sight order
John Cabot
Bleeding Kansas
37. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Tiananmen Sqaure
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sacco-Vanzetti case
38. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Great Society
Boris Yeltsin
Black codes
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.
The Rosenbergs
Articles of Confederation
Jay's Treaty
Central Powers
40. Signed in 1975 by Gerald Ford - Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev - and the leaders of thirty-one other states in a promise to solidify European boundaries - respect human rights - and permit freedom of travel.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Helsinki Accords
41. Primarily concerned with international espionage and information gathering. In the 1950s - this organization became heavily involved in many civil struggles in the Third World - supporting groups likely to cooperate with the US rather than the USSR.
Saddam Hussein
CIA
Boston Massacre
William Randolph Hearst
42. Husband and wife who - in 1950 - were accused of spying for the Soviets. They countered the accusation on the grounds that their Jewish background and leftist beliefs made them easy targets for persecution. In a trial closely followed by the American
National Origins Act
Quasi-war
The Rosenbergs
Cash-and-carry
43. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
H. L. Mencken
William Jennings Bryan
Baby boom
Iran-Contra affair
44. Coined by Stokely Carmichael - and adopted by Malcolm X - the Black Panthers - and other civil rights groups. The term embodied the fight against oppression and the value of ethnic heritage.
Central Powers
Quasi-war
Black Power
American Civil Liberties Union
45. 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
Checks and balances
Iran-Contra affair
Students for a Democratic Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. 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
Atlantic Charter
Berlin Blockade
Tiananmen Sqaure
Salutary neglect
47. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Lost generation
Jane Addams
AAA
CCC
48. 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
Civil Works Administration
Anti-Imperialist League
Corrupt bargain
John Brown
49. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Missouri Compromise
Black Panthers
Saddam Hussein
John Quincy Adams
50. 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
Great Society
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ernest Hemingway