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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Mercantilism
Henry David Thoreau
William Randolph Hearst
2. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Boston Tea Party
A Century of Dishonor
Iran-Contra affair
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.
Boris Yeltsin
Inflation
James Buchanan
Central Powers
4. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
Civil Works Administration
AFL
Bacon's Rebellion
5. 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.
Bank veto
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deists
Reaganomics
6. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
John Brown
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Kansas-Nebraska Act
7. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Economic Opportunity Act
John Cabot
Smith-Connolly Act
8. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Samuel de Champlain
Berlin Blockade
John Adams
9. 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
Boston Massacre
Specie Circular
Earl Warren
Black Thursday
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.
William Jennings Bryan
Jacques Cartier
Bill of Rights
Anti-Saloon League
11. 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
Anti-Saloon League
AFL
William Jennings Bryan
12. 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).
Gag rule
Edgar Allen Poe
Committee to Defend America First
Walt Whitman
13. 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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Boston Massacre
Berlin Wall
CCC
14. 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."
The Rosenbergs
H. L. Mencken
John Quincy Adams
Chinese Exclusion Act
15. A group of zealous Chinese nationalists terrorized foreigners and Chinese Christians - capturing Beijing (Peking) in June 1900 and threatening European and American interests in Chinese markets. The US committed 2 -500 men to an international force t
Corrupt bargain
Bay of Pigs
J. Edgar Hoover
Boxer Rebellion
16. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Annapolis Convention
Nuremburg Trials
Inflation
American Civil Liberties Union
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.
Silent Spring
Jay's Treaty
Students for a Democratic Society
Northwest Ordinance
18. 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.
Camp David Accords
Berlin Wall
Atlantic Charter
Puritans
19. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Shoot-on-sight order
Atomic Energy Commission
Civil Rights Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. 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
Checks and balances
Camp David Accords
Palmer Raids
Henry Clay
21. 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.
Boston Massacre
James Buchanan
Black codes
Walt Whitman
22. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Palmer Raids
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Brown
23. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
Boris Yeltsin
James Fenimore Cooper
Alger Hiss
Samuel Adams
24. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Hartford Convention
Smith Act
Gettysburg
Puritans
25. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
A Century of Dishonor
Tripartite Pact
John Adams
Samuel de Champlain
26. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bay of Pigs
Tiananmen Sqaure
The Age of Reason
Bank of the United States
27. 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
Checks and balances
Axis powers
Sedition Amendment
28. Prime minister of England from 1940 to 1945. He was known for his inspirational speeches and zealous pursuit of war victory. Together he - FDR - and Stalin mapped out the post-war world order as the "Big Three." In 1946 - he coined the term "iron cur
To Secure These Rights
Winston Churchill
Ross Perot
Detente
29. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Atlantic Charter
Black codes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Berlin Blockade
Carpetbaggers
Northwest Ordinance
31. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Berlin Blockade
AFL
Roger Williams
Saddam Hussein
32. Signed on Christmas Eve in 1815. Ended the War of 1812 and returned relations between the US and Britain to the way things were before the war.
Treaty of Ghent
Gettysburg
Black Thursday
Bank of the United States
33. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Smith Act
American System
Horatio Alger
John Steinbeck
34. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Baby boom
Fidel Castro
Jacques Cartier
35. 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
AAA
House Un-American Activities Committee
Salutary neglect
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
36. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jacques Cartier
Albany Plan
House Un-American Activities Committee
37. Began when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990. In January 1991 - the US attacked Iraqi troops - supply lines - and bases. In late February - US ground troops launched an attack on Kuwait City - successfully driving out Hussein'
Gulf War
William Randolph Hearst
House Un-American Activities Committee
CCC
38. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Battle of the Bulge
Lend-Lease Act
Big stick diplomacy
39. Conducted during the summer and fall of 1940. In preparation for an amphibious assault - Germans launched airstrikes on London. Hitlers hoped the continuous bombing would destroy British industry and hurt morale - but the British successfully avoided
Treaty of Ghent
Bank veto
Battle of Britain
Alien and Sedition Acts
40. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
A Century of Dishonor
Bootleggers
Students for a Democratic Society
Fidel Castro
41. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Black Power
Winston Churchill
William Randolph Hearst
42. 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
Jay's Treaty
Quasi-war
Palmer Raids
Boston Tea Party
43. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Black Power
Articles of Confederation
Dynamic conservatism
44. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism - these people believed that God - like a celestial clockmaker - had created a perfect universe and then stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws.
Walt Whitman
William Jennings Bryan
Deists
John C. Calhoun
45. 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
Black codes
Reaganomics
Dynamic conservatism
Cash-and-carry
46. 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
Joint-stock companies
Mikhail Gorbachev
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Imperialist League
47. 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.
Henry Clay
Saddam Hussein
Smith-Connolly Act
CIA
48. 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
Palmer Raids
American Civil Liberties Union
The Awakening
Bootleggers
49. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Eugenics
Detente
The Age of Reason
50. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
James Buchanan
Anti-Imperialist League
Corrupt bargain
Albany Plan