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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Economic Opportunity Act
Boston Massacre
Reaganomics
Edgar Allen Poe
2. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Central Powers
Fidel Castro
Albany Plan
Jimmy Carter
3. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
Baby boom
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
AAA
Bank veto
4. 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
Mercantilism
Lend-Lease Act
Pendleton Act
National Origins Act
5. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
The Age of Reason
Henry Hudson
Jane Addams
Fidel Castro
6. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Black codes
Great Society
Sacco-Vanzetti case
7. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Battle of the Bulge
John Steinbeck
Bacon's Rebellion
Brown v Board of Ed
8. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Antietam
Puritans
Bank of the United States
Kansas-Nebraska Act
9. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
Boris Yeltsin
The Beats
Berlin Blockade
Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
William Randolph Hearst
Dynamic conservatism
Black Panthers
Silent Spring
11. 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
Alger Hiss
Fidel Castro
Great Society
AFL
12. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
John Cabot
John Steinbeck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Hudson
13. 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
Joint-stock companies
Atlantic Charter
Boris Yeltsin
Jane Addams
14. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Andrew Carnegie
Tripartite Pact
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Silent Spring
15. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Inflation
Gettysburg
National Origins Act
16. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Saddam Hussein
George Bush
Missouri Compromise
17. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
George Bush
Camp meetings
Baby boom
18. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Specie Circular
Henry Clay
House Un-American Activities Committee
19. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Axis powers
To Secure These Rights
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Treaty of San Lorenzo
20. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Reaganomics
Gulf War
American Civil Liberties Union
Black Thursday
21. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Civil Works Administration
22. 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.
CIA
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
23. 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
Triangular Trade
Detente
AAA
Northwest Ordinance
24. 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
Palmer Raids
Committee to Defend America First
Cash-and-carry
Saddam Hussein
25. 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.
Henry Hudson
Tippecanoe
Leif Ericson
The Beats
26. 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
Silent Spring
Gag rule
John C. Calhoun
Lost generation
27. 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
Treaty of Greenville
AFL
George Bush
Berlin Blockade
28. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
Students for a Democratic Society
Northwest Ordinance
Puritans
29. 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.
Silent Spring
Sedition Amendment
Annapolis Convention
Treaty of San Lorenzo
30. 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.
Boston Tea Party
John Adams
Jimmy Carter
Trust
31. 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 -
Cash-and-carry
Alger Hiss
The Beats
Henry Hudson
32. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Hartford Convention
Civil Rights Act
Boston Tea Party
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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Salutary neglect
J. Edgar Hoover
Horatio Alger
34. 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.
James Buchanan
Fidel Castro
Black Panthers
Battle of Britain
35. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bleeding Kansas
The Awakening
Ernest Hemingway
36. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
CCC
James Fenimore Cooper
Stokely Carmichael
37. 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
Bank veto
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Randolph Hearst
Taft-Hartley Act
38. 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
Civil Rights Act
Smith Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Winston Churchill
39. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael
Chinese Exclusion Act
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Assembly line
40. 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
CIA
William Randolph Hearst
Mutual Assured Destruction
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
41. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Tippecanoe
James Buchanan
Earl Warren
42. 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
Roger Williams
The Rosenbergs
The Beats
Assembly line
43. 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
Reaganomics
Henry Cabot Lodge
Earl Warren
Annapolis Convention
44. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay
Jay's Treaty
Henry David Thoreau
45. 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
Detente
Big stick diplomacy
Civil Rights Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
46. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Works Administration
A Century of Dishonor
47. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Jane Addams
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Palmer Raids
Edgar Allen Poe
48. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Annapolis Convention
The Feminine Mystique
Trust
49. 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
Treaty of Ghent
Checks and balances
Walt Whitman
Puritans
50. 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
Missouri Compromise
Camp David Accords
Annapolis Convention