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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Bull Moose Party
Anti-Saloon League
American Civil Liberties Union
2. 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
Boston Massacre
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Lost generation
Battle of the Bulge
3. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
William Randolph Hearst
Lend-Lease Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Corrupt bargain
4. A French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region between 1534 and 1542. He searched for a Northwest Passage - a waterway through which ships could cross the Americas and access Asia. He found no such passage but opened the region up to futu
New Look
Jay's Treaty
Jacques Cartier
Great Society
5. 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.
Axis powers
Tiananmen Sqaure
The Rosenbergs
J. Edgar Hoover
6. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Sedition Amendment
Nathaniel Hawthorne
House Un-American Activities Committee
Boston Tea Party
7. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jacques Cartier
Jimmy Carter
New Look
8. 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.
Popular Front
Triangular Trade
Gettysburg
Kansas-Nebraska Act
9. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Northwest Ordinance
Eugenics
10. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Samuel Adams
First Great Awakening
Peace Corps
11. A 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed the "seperate but equal" segregationist doctrine established by the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision. The Court ruled that seperated facilities were inherently unequal and ordered public schools to
Anti-Imperialist League
Berlin Blockade
Brown v Board of Ed
Camp David Accords
12. 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
Helsinki Accords
Bacon's Rebellion
Battle of the Bulge
13. 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
Jane Addams
Bay of Pigs
Battle of the Bulge
14. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
John Quincy Adams
Saddam Hussein
The Feminine Mystique
Anti-federalists
15. 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
Black Thursday
American System
Boston Massacre
16. 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
Bull Moose Party
Leif Ericson
James Fenimore Cooper
Boston Tea Party
17. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
William Jennings Bryan
Samuel de Champlain
Camp meetings
J. Edgar Hoover
18. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Anti-Imperialist League
Palmer Raids
Camp meetings
19. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
Camp meetings
Detente
Bootleggers
Black Power
20. 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
The Age of Reason
George Bush
Silent Spring
21. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Stokely Carmichael
Bull Moose Party
22. 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
Specie Circular
Jacques Cartier
Baby boom
Mercantilism
23. 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.
Gettysburg
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Act
Iran-Contra affair
24. 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.
Salutary neglect
Cuban Missile Crisis
Committee to Defend America First
Susan B. Anthony
25. 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
First Great Awakening
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Taft-Hartley Act
26. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Tiananmen Sqaure
Battle of the Bulge
American Civil Liberties Union
Mutual Assured Destruction
27. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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28. 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."
Roger Williams
Iran-Contra affair
Sedition Amendment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Henry David Thoreau
John C. Calhoun
Anti-Saloon League
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
30. 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
Berlin Blockade
John Brown
Inflation
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
31. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Civil Rights Act
Bay of Pigs
Detente
Kansas-Nebraska Act
32. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Bill of Rights
George Bush
Helsinki Accords
33. 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.
Camp meetings
Silent Spring
CCC
Pendleton Act
34. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Peace Corps
Jacques Cartier
35. 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.
Battle of Britain
Mercantilism
Bank of the United States
Ross Perot
36. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Tripartite Pact
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Bleeding Kansas
37. 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
Bank veto
Anti-federalists
Sacco-Vanzetti case
AFL
38. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
Civil Works Administration
Nuremburg Trials
Black codes
Students for a Democratic Society
39. 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.
Henry Clay
Chinese Exclusion Act
Sedition Amendment
Treaty of Greenville
40. Lyndon B. Johnson's program for domestic policy. It aimed to achieve racial equality - end poverty - and improve health-care. Johnson pushed a number of laws through Congress early in this presidency - but the plan failed to materialize fully - as th
Great Society
John C. Calhoun
Corrupt bargain
Reaganomics
41. 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
Boston Tea Party
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boris Yeltsin
Winston Churchill
42. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
Roger Williams
Boston Tea Party
John Adams
Susan B. Anthony
43. A series of twelve letters published by John Dickinson. The letters denounced the Townsend Duties by demonstrating that many ot the arguments employed against the Stamp Act were valid against the Townsend Duties as well. The letters inspired anti-Bri
Carpetbaggers
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Age of Reason
Peace Corps
44. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Cash-and-carry
Puritans
CCC
45. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Horatio Alger
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nuremburg Trials
46. Issued on August 14 - 1941 during a meeting between President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The charter outlined the ideal postwar world - condemned military aggression - asserted the right to national self-determination - a
Missouri Compromise
Atlantic Charter
Cash-and-carry
Committee to Defend America First
47. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Detente
Triangular Trade
Bacon's Rebellion
48. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
George Bush
Civil Rights Act
Puritans
Smith Act
49. 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
Jimmy Carter
Palmer Raids
Antietam
Alien and Sedition Acts
50. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Battle of the Bulge
To Secure These Rights
H. L. Mencken
Gettysburg