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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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 -
Tiananmen Sqaure
Treaty of Greenville
Economic Opportunity Act
Alger Hiss
2. 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-Connolly Act
Puritans
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Cabot
3. 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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4. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
Salutary neglect
Black Panthers
Treaty of San Lorenzo
A Century of Dishonor
5. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Quasi-war
John C. Calhoun
Mutual Assured Destruction
6. 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.
Puritans
Henry Cabot Lodge
CCC
Earl Warren
7. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Corrupt bargain
Eugenics
House Un-American Activities Committee
8. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
Edgar Allen Poe
Specie Circular
Palmer Raids
Henry Cabot Lodge
9. 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
Leif Ericson
Iran-Contra affair
Reaganomics
John Adams
10. The first ten amendments of the Constitution - which guarantee the civil rights of American citizens. Drafted by anti-federalists - including James Madison - to protect individuals from the tyranny they felt the Constitution might permit.
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
Checks and balances
Lend-Lease Act
11. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Black Thursday
Civil Works Administration
Northwest Ordinance
Mutual Assured Destruction
12. 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
Detente
First Great Awakening
Boris Yeltsin
Tippecanoe
13. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Students for a Democratic Society
Inflation
Albany Plan
John Brown
14. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Cash-and-carry
Jacques Cartier
Popular Front
John Cabot
15. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Hartford Convention
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Jennings Bryan
American Civil Liberties Union
16. 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
CCC
John Brown
The Beats
17. 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
Samuel de Champlain
John Brown
Black Power
Boston Massacre
18. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Boxer Rebellion
Bank of the United States
Baby boom
Ernest Hemingway
19. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bacon's Rebellion
Bootleggers
Walt Whitman
John Steinbeck
20. 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.
CCC
National Origins Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Northwest Ordinance
21. 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
Popular Front
William Randolph Hearst
Axis powers
Gag rule
22. 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 -
Taft-Hartley Act
Susan B. Anthony
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Peace Corps
23. 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
Ross Perot
First Great Awakening
Boston Massacre
24. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Iran-Contra affair
CIA
25. 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
Iran-Contra affair
John Quincy Adams
The Awakening
John Brown
26. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Inflation
Earl Warren
AAA
27. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Roger Williams
Edgar Allen Poe
Civil Rights Act
28. 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
John C. Calhoun
Economic Opportunity Act
Eugenics
Tippecanoe
29. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Walt Whitman
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Black Power
30. 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.
Albany Plan
CCC
Popular Front
Stokely Carmichael
31. A leader of the Sons of Liberty. He suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence and fought for colonial rights throughout New England. He is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.
Samuel Adams
Reaganomics
Corrupt bargain
Tiananmen Sqaure
32. 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
Berlin Blockade
AFL
Committee to Defend America First
To Secure These Rights
33. Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy summed up his aggressive stance toward international affairs with the phrase - "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Under this doctrine - the US declared its domination over Latin American and built the Panama Can
Big stick diplomacy
Students for a Democratic Society
Popular Front
Chinese Exclusion Act
34. 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.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Black Power
Walt Whitman
Jacques Cartier
35. 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
Walt Whitman
Palmer Raids
Albany Plan
Black Panthers
36. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
James Buchanan
Edgar Allen Poe
H. L. Mencken
Samuel de Champlain
37. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Allies
Albany Plan
Black Panthers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
38. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Nuremburg Trials
House Un-American Activities Committee
Joint-stock companies
39. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
Fidel Castro
Tripartite Pact
Antietam
Hartford Convention
40. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
Andrew Carnegie
AAA
Triangular Trade
Civil Rights Act
41. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Camp David Accords
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Economic Opportunity Act
42. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Clay
Bootleggers
43. The last Soviet political leader. He became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and president of the USSR in 1988. He helped ease tension between the US and the USSR- work that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He oversaw the fal
Mercantilism
Committee to Defend America First
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bleeding Kansas
44. 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.
Camp meetings
Sedition Amendment
William Randolph Hearst
Anti-Imperialist League
45. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Henry David Thoreau
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Popular Front
46. 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
Albany Plan
Peace Corps
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
47. 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
Corrupt bargain
First Great Awakening
Mutual Assured Destruction
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
48. 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
Camp David Accords
Cuban Missile Crisis
Helsinki Accords
Alger Hiss
49. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Samuel de Champlain
Civil Rights Act
John Cabot
George Bush
50. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Great Society
The Feminine Mystique
To Secure These Rights
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