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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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 Power
Bank of the United States
Sedition Amendment
2. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
Ross Perot
Civil Works Administration
Allies
First Great Awakening
3. 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
Corrupt bargain
Allies
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Henry Cabot Lodge
4. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Horatio Alger
Nuremburg Trials
5. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
J. Edgar Hoover
Brown v Board of Ed
First Great Awakening
George Bush
6. 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
Antietam
Bank veto
Susan B. Anthony
Henry Clay
7. 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
Alger Hiss
AFL
Mutual Assured Destruction
8. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
To Secure These Rights
Albany Plan
Joint-stock companies
Chinese Exclusion Act
9. 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
Alger Hiss
Walt Whitman
William Jennings Bryan
Battle of the Bulge
10. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
National Origins Act
Walt Whitman
Peace Corps
11. Delegates from five states met in Annapolis in September 1786 to discuss interstate commerce. However - discussions of weaknesses in the government led them to suggest to Congress a new convention to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Annapolis Convention
George Bush
CIA
Walt Whitman
12. 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.
Big stick diplomacy
Jane Addams
To Secure These Rights
Camp David Accords
13. 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
Atlantic Charter
John Brown
Berlin Wall
Walt Whitman
14. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Jane Addams
The Rosenbergs
Camp meetings
15. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Annapolis Convention
Inflation
Triangular Trade
16. 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
Articles of Confederation
Reaganomics
Anti-Saloon League
Battle of Britain
17. 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
Gulf War
Popular Front
John C. Calhoun
Black Power
18. 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
National Origins Act
American Civil Liberties Union
Missouri Compromise
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.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Susan B. Anthony
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint-stock companies
20. 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
Earl Warren
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Boris Yeltsin
Deists
21. 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
The Rosenbergs
Quasi-war
The Feminine Mystique
Economic Opportunity Act
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 -
Bill of Rights
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bleeding Kansas
Anti-federalists
23. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Gulf War
Great Society
National Origins Act
24. 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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25. 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
The Age of Reason
Checks and balances
Black Power
William Jennings Bryan
26. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Gettysburg
Roger Williams
Articles of Confederation
27. 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.
National Origins Act
Smith Act
The Beats
Sedition Amendment
28. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Corrupt bargain
Jay's Treaty
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
29. 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
Berlin Blockade
Smith-Connolly Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tippecanoe
30. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry David Thoreau
To Secure These Rights
John Steinbeck
31. 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.
George Bush
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Trust
Smith-Connolly Act
32. 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.
Bay of Pigs
Alger Hiss
Tippecanoe
Leif Ericson
33. 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
Boston Massacre
Salutary neglect
Bay of Pigs
Helsinki Accords
34. 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
CIA
Ernest Hemingway
Gag rule
35. 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
Anti-Saloon League
John Brown
AAA
Atlantic Charter
36. 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.
Henry Clay
Saddam Hussein
Salutary neglect
Central Powers
37. A meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 - in which the New England-based party enumerated its complaints against the ruling Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists - already losing power steadily - hoped that antiwar sentiment w
Black Thursday
Mercantilism
Hartford Convention
First Great Awakening
38. 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
Anti-federalists
Triangular Trade
Albany Plan
George Bush
39. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Battle of the Bulge
Gag rule
F. Scott Fitzgerald
AFL
40. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Smith-Connolly Act
Roger Williams
Specie Circular
41. A small but prominent circle of writhers - poets - and intellectuals during the 1920s. Artists like Ernest Hemingway - F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Ezra Pound grew disillusioned with America's postwar culture - finding it overly materialistic and spirit
Lost generation
Carpetbaggers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Corrupt bargain
42. 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
Anti-federalists
Central Powers
Gag rule
43. 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
Black Thursday
Treaty of Greenville
Great Society
Lost generation
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
Earl Warren
George Bush
Bleeding Kansas
James Fenimore Cooper
45. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tripartite Pact
AFL
James Fenimore Cooper
46. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Fidel Castro
Treaty of Ghent
New Look
47. 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
Anti-federalists
Ernest Hemingway
Assembly line
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
48. 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.
Palmer Raids
James Buchanan
Corrupt bargain
John Adams
49. 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
Quasi-war
Bank of the United States
Tripartite Pact
Mercantilism
50. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Anti-Imperialist League
Samuel de Champlain
Shoot-on-sight order
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer