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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Berlin Blockade
Gag rule
Smith Act
2. 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.
John Adams
Cash-and-carry
J. Edgar Hoover
Shoot-on-sight order
3. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
H. L. Mencken
Ross Perot
Jacques Cartier
A Century of Dishonor
4. 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.
James Buchanan
Boston Massacre
Tripartite Pact
Tippecanoe
5. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Triangular Trade
Reaganomics
Treaty of Greenville
6. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Iran-Contra affair
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Inflation
7. 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
Gag rule
Stokely Carmichael
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Popular Front
8. 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
Horatio Alger
Tippecanoe
Nuremburg Trials
Boris Yeltsin
9. 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."
Cash-and-carry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Beats
Brown v Board of Ed
10. 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.
Lost generation
Joint-stock companies
Helsinki Accords
Eugenics
11. 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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12. 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
Boston Tea Party
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bank of the United States
13. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Quasi-war
Gettysburg
John Cabot
Smith Act
14. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
Reaganomics
Bill of Rights
John Quincy Adams
15. 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
Walt Whitman
The Beats
Helsinki Accords
16. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Horatio Alger
Bacon's Rebellion
Anti-Saloon League
17. 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
Mercantilism
Palmer Raids
Detente
Jay's Treaty
18. 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
Hartford Convention
American System
Roger Williams
Civil Works Administration
19. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
The Awakening
Ernest Hemingway
Big stick diplomacy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
20. 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
Triangular Trade
Mercantilism
Committee to Defend America First
William Jennings Bryan
21. 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
Sedition Amendment
Specie Circular
Jacques Cartier
Bank veto
22. 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
Great Society
Lost generation
Treaty of Ghent
Atlantic Charter
23. 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.
Checks and balances
American Civil Liberties Union
National Origins Act
Articles of Confederation
24. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Big stick diplomacy
Axis powers
CCC
25. 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
Articles of Confederation
Bank of the United States
The Rosenbergs
26. The largest battle of the Civil War. Widely considered to be the war's turning point - the battle marked the Union's first major victory in the East. The three-day campaign - from July 1 to 4 - 1863 - resulted in an unprecedented 51 -000 total casual
Boston Tea Party
Gettysburg
Reaganomics
Civil Works Administration
27. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Eugenics
House Un-American Activities Committee
First Great Awakening
28. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Age of Reason
To Secure These Rights
Boston Massacre
29. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
H. L. Mencken
Bill of Rights
Joint-stock companies
30. 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.
Black Panthers
Nuremburg Trials
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Silent Spring
31. 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.
Mercantilism
Camp meetings
Black codes
The Beats
32. 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
Mercantilism
Detente
Bank veto
Treaty of Ghent
33. A fiction writer who gained popularity in the 1840s for his horrific tales. He published many famous stories - including "The Raven" (1844) and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
National Origins Act
Atomic Energy Commission
Edgar Allen Poe
Silent Spring
34. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Trust
John Brown
Earl Warren
35. Defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. The ordinace forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established.
Civil Works Administration
Bill of Rights
Peace Corps
Northwest Ordinance
36. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
James Fenimore Cooper
Economic Opportunity Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Susan B. Anthony
37. 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.
Inflation
Helsinki Accords
Economic Opportunity Act
Lost generation
38. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
First Great Awakening
J. Robert Oppenheimer
39. 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
Triangular Trade
Black Panthers
John Steinbeck
George Bush
40. 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
James Buchanan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Quincy Adams
Eugenics
41. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cash-and-carry
Detente
42. 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
Bay of Pigs
Jay's Treaty
Tiananmen Sqaure
43. 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
Silent Spring
Detente
Tiananmen Sqaure
Mutual Assured Destruction
44. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tippecanoe
Mikhail Gorbachev
45. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Carpetbaggers
Camp David Accords
Central Powers
46. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Lend-Lease Act
Anti-Imperialist League
Chinese Exclusion Act
Hartford Convention
47. 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
Quasi-war
Jay's Treaty
Great Society
Andrew Carnegie
48. 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.
Silent Spring
Nuremburg Trials
John C. Calhoun
Shoot-on-sight order
49. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chinese Exclusion Act
First Great Awakening
Antietam
50. 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.
Earl Warren
CIA
CCC
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