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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Big stick diplomacy
Bank of the United States
John Adams
2. 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
CIA
Anti-federalists
Alger Hiss
Mercantilism
3. 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.
Bank veto
John Adams
Carpetbaggers
Helsinki Accords
4. 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
Boston Tea Party
Tripartite Pact
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5. 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
Boston Tea Party
Roger Williams
John Quincy Adams
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
6. 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
The Beats
Lost generation
Henry Clay
7. Ronald Reagan's economic philosophy which held that a capitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive. Reagan believed that the prosperity of the rich upper class would "trickle down" to the poor.
Tippecanoe
Bull Moose Party
Reaganomics
Jacques Cartier
8. The partnership of Great Britain - France - and Italy during World War I. The alliance was pitted against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In 1917 - the US joined the war on this side. During World War II - the coalition included Gr
Allies
Dynamic conservatism
Camp meetings
Anti-federalists
9. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Eugenics
Corrupt bargain
10. 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
Pendleton Act
Northwest Ordinance
The Feminine Mystique
11. An English explorer sponsered by the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 - he sailed up the river that now bears his name - nearly reaching present-day Albany. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Pendleton Act
Henry Hudson
Inflation
12. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Detente
Peace Corps
Missouri Compromise
Taft-Hartley Act
13. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Anti-Saloon League
Camp David Accords
Nuremburg Trials
14. Passed in March 1941. Allowed the president to lend or lease supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the US -" such as Britain - and was a key move in support ot the Allied cause before the US formally entered World War II. Was extende
Ross Perot
Lend-Lease Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
15. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Awakening
Horatio Alger
Cuban Missile Crisis
16. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Treaty of Greenville
Lost generation
Salutary neglect
House Un-American Activities Committee
17. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Missouri Compromise
Gulf War
Kansas-Nebraska Act
18. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bay of Pigs
The Beats
Cash-and-carry
19. 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
Cash-and-carry
Annapolis Convention
Trust
Gettysburg
20. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mutual Assured Destruction
Cash-and-carry
Berlin Blockade
21. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Trust
Brown v Board of Ed
Civil Rights Act
22. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Checks and balances
Cuban Missile Crisis
William Jennings Bryan
James Buchanan
23. Leader of a group of senators known as "reservationists" during the 1919 debate over the League of Nations. He and his followers supported US membership in the League only if major revisions were made to the covenant. President Wilson - however - ref
Battle of Britain
Henry Cabot Lodge
Boston Tea Party
Anti-Imperialist League
24. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
First Great Awakening
Susan B. Anthony
Atlantic Charter
Civil Works Administration
25. 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
AAA
Camp David Accords
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Rosenbergs
26. 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
Battle of Britain
Triangular Trade
John C. Calhoun
Earl Warren
27. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Great Society
Bootleggers
Henry Hudson
The Age of Reason
28. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
National Origins Act
Boris Yeltsin
John C. Calhoun
29. 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
Missouri Compromise
Silent Spring
Kansas-Nebraska Act
30. 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.
Horatio Alger
Gettysburg
John Steinbeck
Camp David Accords
31. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Eugenics
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Iran-Contra affair
32. 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
Boxer Rebellion
John C. Calhoun
Susan B. Anthony
Atlantic Charter
33. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
Lost generation
Henry David Thoreau
Samuel Adams
34. 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.
Bootleggers
A Century of Dishonor
Deists
Black Power
35. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Anti-Saloon League
Jimmy Carter
George Bush
36. 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
John Brown
Articles of Confederation
Chinese Exclusion Act
William Jennings Bryan
37. 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.
Bank veto
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel Adams
Roger Williams
38. 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.
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Bill of Rights
Alger Hiss
James Fenimore Cooper
39. 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
Jane Addams
Missouri Compromise
American System
Henry Clay
40. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
Hartford Convention
Pendleton Act
American Civil Liberties Union
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.
Albany Plan
Shoot-on-sight order
Jay's Treaty
Lost generation
42. 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.
Henry Clay
Jay's Treaty
John Adams
Bacon's Rebellion
43. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Saddam Hussein
John Steinbeck
44. 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.
American Civil Liberties Union
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Gulf War
Black Power
45. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Berlin Blockade
Salutary neglect
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
46. 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 Age of Reason
Saddam Hussein
Triangular Trade
H. L. Mencken
47. 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.
National Origins Act
James Buchanan
Black Power
James Fenimore Cooper
48. 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
John Quincy Adams
Smith Act
Gulf War
Tippecanoe
49. 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 -
Annapolis Convention
Sedition Amendment
Alger Hiss
Battle of Britain
50. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Missouri Compromise
Deists
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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