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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
James Buchanan
Inflation
John Cabot
Mutual Assured Destruction
2. 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
Bill of Rights
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Ernest Hemingway
Bleeding Kansas
3. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
James Buchanan
Jacques Cartier
Atomic Energy Commission
4. 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
Great Society
Central Powers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
AFL
5. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Camp meetings
James Buchanan
Mercantilism
Samuel de Champlain
6. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
National Origins Act
Gulf War
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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
William Jennings Bryan
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Puritans
Salutary neglect
8. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Boston Massacre
Quasi-war
Walt Whitman
CIA
9. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Anti-Imperialist League
Jane Addams
The Awakening
Articles of Confederation
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.
Civil Works Administration
Students for a Democratic Society
Boxer Rebellion
Fidel Castro
11. 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
Iran-Contra affair
John Brown
Jane Addams
Camp David Accords
12. Written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881 - this work attempted to raise public awareness of the harsh and dishonorable treatment of Native Americans at the hands of the US.
Smith Act
Iran-Contra affair
Reaganomics
A Century of Dishonor
13. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Winston Churchill
A Century of Dishonor
Shoot-on-sight order
Anti-Saloon League
14. 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
Smith Act
Trust
Camp David Accords
New Look
15. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Detente
Trust
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Beats
16. 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
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise
CCC
Boxer Rebellion
17. 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
Silent Spring
National Origins Act
Samuel Adams
18. 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.
Albany Plan
Ernest Hemingway
Leif Ericson
Treaty of Ghent
19. Adopted in 1777 during the Revolutionary War. They established the first limited central government of the US - reserving most powers for the individual states. However they didn't grant enough federal power to manage the country's budget or maintain
Alien and Sedition Acts
Articles of Confederation
George Bush
Axis powers
20. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Gag rule
John C. Calhoun
H. L. Mencken
John Cabot
21. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Tripartite Pact
Cuban Missile Crisis
George Bush
Anti-Imperialist League
22. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Jay's Treaty
Susan B. Anthony
Central Powers
Great Society
23. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Bacon's Rebellion
Black Power
Winston Churchill
24. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Specie Circular
First Great Awakening
Bull Moose Party
Axis powers
25. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
John Quincy Adams
Ernest Hemingway
Central Powers
26. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boxer Rebellion
Civil Works Administration
Atlantic Charter
27. 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.
Samuel Adams
Jimmy Carter
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edgar Allen Poe
28. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Dynamic conservatism
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Albany Plan
Nuremburg Trials
29. 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.
National Origins Act
Boris Yeltsin
Jimmy Carter
Gettysburg
30. 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
Helsinki Accords
Gag rule
Salutary neglect
31. 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.
Big stick diplomacy
Gag rule
Bank of the United States
American System
32. 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
Cash-and-carry
J. Edgar Hoover
Atomic Energy Commission
Stokely Carmichael
33. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Inflation
Berlin Blockade
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
34. 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."
To Secure These Rights
Stokely Carmichael
Andrew Carnegie
Gag rule
35. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Henry Clay
Black Panthers
Civil Works Administration
36. 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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37. 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."
Mikhail Gorbachev
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treaty of Ghent
38. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Pendleton Act
John Brown
Henry Hudson
Jacques Cartier
39. 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
Saddam Hussein
Mikhail Gorbachev
Allies
Treaty of Greenville
40. 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.
AAA
Anti-Saloon League
Committee to Defend America First
Students for a Democratic Society
41. 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
Specie Circular
The Rosenbergs
Civil Works Administration
H. L. Mencken
42. A prominent transcendentalist writer. Two of his most famous writings are Civil Disobediance (1849) and Walden (1854). He advocatd living life according to one's conscience - removed from materialism and repressive social codes.
Peace Corps
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Henry David Thoreau
Chinese Exclusion Act
43. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Awakening
Taft-Hartley Act
Cash-and-carry
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
The Age of Reason
Ross Perot
Corrupt bargain
Battle of Britain
45. 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
James Buchanan
Palmer Raids
Popular Front
Detente
46. 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
Gag rule
Great Society
Bleeding Kansas
Samuel Adams
47. 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
Checks and balances
Anti-Saloon League
Allies
Kansas-Nebraska Act
48. 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.
Fidel Castro
Checks and balances
Salutary neglect
Bank veto
49. 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.
Jay's Treaty
Earl Warren
Nuremburg Trials
Camp David Accords
50. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
John Cabot
Jimmy Carter