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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Winston Churchill
Jacques Cartier
A Century of Dishonor
Fidel Castro
2. 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
Earl Warren
Gettysburg
Taft-Hartley Act
Pendleton Act
3. 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.
Bay of Pigs
Battle of Britain
John Cabot
A Century of Dishonor
4. 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
Gag rule
Mikhail Gorbachev
Eugenics
John Cabot
5. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Atomic Energy Commission
Mercantilism
The Age of Reason
6. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
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7. 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."
Anti-Imperialist League
Alger Hiss
The Feminine Mystique
H. L. Mencken
8. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Bill of Rights
Berlin Blockade
Civil Rights Act
Cash-and-carry
9. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Camp David Accords
Winston Churchill
John Brown
10. A series of investigations in 1987 exposed evidence that the US had been selling arms to the anti-American government in Iran and using the profits from these sales to secretly and illegally finance the Contras in Nicaragua. (The Contras were a rebel
Walt Whitman
Tippecanoe
Iran-Contra affair
Sedition Amendment
11. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
The Rosenbergs
Treaty of Ghent
Bank of the United States
Jacques Cartier
12. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
New Look
Atlantic Charter
John Brown
13. Crafted by Henry Clay and backed by the National Republican Party - this plan proposed a series of tariffs and federally funded transportation imporvements - geared toward acheiving national economic self-sufficiency.
Annapolis Convention
Sedition Amendment
American System
Henry Hudson
14. 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.
Trust
CCC
Black Thursday
Samuel Adams
15. 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
Puritans
Atomic Energy Commission
Bull Moose Party
John C. Calhoun
16. 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
Great Society
American System
Lost generation
Smith Act
17. 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
Winston Churchill
Mercantilism
Alien and Sedition Acts
18. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Berlin Blockade
John Steinbeck
Missouri Compromise
Bay of Pigs
19. Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy summed up his aggressive stance toward international affairs with the phrase - "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Under this doctrine - the US declared its domination over Latin American and built the Panama Can
Fidel Castro
Earl Warren
Gulf War
Big stick diplomacy
20. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Carpetbaggers
Boston Massacre
Samuel Adams
Camp meetings
21. 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
Bull Moose Party
Anti-federalists
Hartford Convention
Antietam
22. 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.
Bleeding Kansas
Atomic Energy Commission
Treaty of Ghent
Committee to Defend America First
23. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Walt Whitman
Gettysburg
Specie Circular
Henry David Thoreau
24. 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
Albany Plan
Atomic Energy Commission
Quasi-war
Smith Act
25. 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.
Economic Opportunity Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Northwest Ordinance
First Great Awakening
26. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Brown v Board of Ed
Jane Addams
Tippecanoe
27. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Axis powers
Henry Clay
Reaganomics
28. 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
Bank of the United States
Detente
Missouri Compromise
Atlantic Charter
29. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Salutary neglect
William Randolph Hearst
Samuel de Champlain
Fidel Castro
30. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
James Fenimore Cooper
Eugenics
Boston Tea Party
31. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
Bill of Rights
Economic Opportunity Act
National Origins Act
32. 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
Anti-federalists
Antietam
Gettysburg
Deists
33. 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
Earl Warren
American Civil Liberties Union
Jane Addams
CIA
34. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Central Powers
Boris Yeltsin
Triangular Trade
35. 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
Roger Williams
Cuban Missile Crisis
Puritans
Walt Whitman
36. 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.
Treaty of Ghent
Camp David Accords
CCC
H. L. Mencken
37. 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.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Black Power
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
38. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Andrew Carnegie
Joint-stock companies
Nuremburg Trials
39. 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
Antietam
John Quincy Adams
Reaganomics
Hartford Convention
40. 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
Jay's Treaty
Specie Circular
Black Panthers
Inflation
41. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Susan B. Anthony
Anti-federalists
Cash-and-carry
Bleeding Kansas
42. 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
Atlantic Charter
A Century of Dishonor
Popular Front
William Jennings Bryan
43. 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
Boston Tea Party
Treaty of Ghent
Albany Plan
44. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Bill of Rights
Jacques Cartier
J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Quincy Adams
45. 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
Boris Yeltsin
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Henry Clay
Black Power
46. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Boris Yeltsin
Berlin Blockade
Jacques Cartier
47. 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 -
Alger Hiss
Tiananmen Sqaure
Committee to Defend America First
Hartford Convention
48. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Jimmy Carter
Northwest Ordinance
49. 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
John Adams
Battle of the Bulge
Checks and balances
Triangular Trade
50. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Helsinki Accords
Berlin Wall
Quasi-war
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