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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
First Great Awakening
Civil Works Administration
Shoot-on-sight order
Camp David Accords
2. Created by FDR to cope with the added economic difficulties brought on by the cold winter months of 1933. The organization spent approximately $1 billion on short-term projects for the unemployed but was abolished in the spring of that year.
Northwest Ordinance
Reaganomics
Civil Works Administration
Kansas-Nebraska Act
3. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Alger Hiss
Annapolis Convention
Henry Hudson
4. 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
John C. Calhoun
Alien and Sedition Acts
Boris Yeltsin
Joint-stock companies
5. 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.
John Brown
James Buchanan
The Feminine Mystique
Assembly line
6. 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
AFL
Boston Massacre
Annapolis Convention
Anti-Saloon League
7. 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.
Civil Works Administration
A Century of Dishonor
Inflation
Samuel Adams
8. 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
Missouri Compromise
Albany Plan
Andrew Carnegie
Dynamic conservatism
9. 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.
George Bush
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Century of Dishonor
Henry Cabot Lodge
10. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Bill of Rights
John Brown
11. During ratification - these people opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the federal government too much political - economic - and military control. They instead advocated a decentralized governmental structure that granted the most p
A Century of Dishonor
Walt Whitman
Anti-federalists
Henry David Thoreau
12. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Camp meetings
Axis powers
Committee to Defend America First
Carpetbaggers
13. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Mercantilism
Stokely Carmichael
Baby boom
14. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Palmer Raids
CCC
Anti-Imperialist League
John Cabot
15. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Students for a Democratic Society
Cash-and-carry
Mutual Assured Destruction
16. 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
Battle of Britain
Mikhail Gorbachev
To Secure These Rights
Atlantic Charter
17. 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'
Bull Moose Party
Black Panthers
Treaty of Greenville
Gulf War
18. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bull Moose Party
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Smith Act
19. 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
Roger Williams
Anti-Saloon League
Detente
Boston Massacre
20. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
Atomic Energy Commission
Black Power
Jacques Cartier
21. 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.
Civil Works Administration
William Randolph Hearst
Horatio Alger
Jane Addams
22. 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.
CCC
Dynamic conservatism
Battle of the Bulge
Henry David Thoreau
23. 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 David Thoreau
John Adams
John Steinbeck
National Origins Act
24. 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.
Bootleggers
Northwest Ordinance
Earl Warren
Reaganomics
25. 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
To Secure These Rights
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
Tripartite Pact
26. 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
Peace Corps
James Buchanan
Smith Act
AFL
27. 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
New Look
Henry David Thoreau
Mutual Assured Destruction
28. Written by Betty Friedan in 1963. This book was a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement. It denounced the belief that women should be tied to the home and encouraged women to get involved in activities outside their home and family.
Boris Yeltsin
To Secure These Rights
Bull Moose Party
The Feminine Mystique
29. 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
Hartford Convention
Salutary neglect
Joint-stock companies
Peace Corps
30. 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
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Bleeding Kansas
31. 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
John Brown
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Salutary neglect
Gettysburg
32. 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
Treaty of Ghent
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eugenics
33. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Smith-Connolly Act
Treaty of Greenville
Economic Opportunity Act
34. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Trust
John Steinbeck
Horatio Alger
John Cabot
35. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
The Beats
New Look
National Origins Act
Inflation
36. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Black Panthers
Black Power
New Look
37. 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
Inflation
The Age of Reason
Bleeding Kansas
Gulf War
38. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
A Century of Dishonor
John C. Calhoun
William Randolph Hearst
CIA
39. 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
John Quincy Adams
Black codes
James Buchanan
Assembly line
40. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Cash-and-carry
John Cabot
41. 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).
Bank veto
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Bill of Rights
Edgar Allen Poe
42. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lend-Lease Act
Black Panthers
43. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
Andrew Carnegie
Dynamic conservatism
Winston Churchill
Students for a Democratic Society
44. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Dynamic conservatism
Mikhail Gorbachev
Quasi-war
Boston Tea Party
45. 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."
Northwest Ordinance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Corrupt bargain
Cuban Missile Crisis
46. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
Carpetbaggers
Sedition Amendment
Checks and balances
47. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Checks and balances
48. 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.
CCC
Inflation
Bill of Rights
A Century of Dishonor
49. 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
Assembly line
Bleeding Kansas
Bacon's Rebellion
Missouri Compromise
50. 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.
John Adams
Tippecanoe
Atlantic Charter
Leif Ericson