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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Treaty of Ghent
Leif Ericson
2. Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Democratic-Republican support. On the grounds of "national security -" the acts increased the number of years required to gain citizenship - allowed for the imprisonment and depo
Students for a Democratic Society
Alien and Sedition Acts
Jacques Cartier
Andrew Carnegie
3. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
AFL
Samuel Adams
4. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Henry Hudson
American System
John C. Calhoun
J. Robert Oppenheimer
5. 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
Allies
John C. Calhoun
Samuel de Champlain
Great Society
6. 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
Saddam Hussein
John Brown
Bank veto
William Jennings Bryan
7. 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
Gulf War
Detente
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
AAA
8. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
AAA
Boston Massacre
Camp meetings
9. 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.
Deists
Camp David Accords
Gag rule
Civil Works Administration
10. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ross Perot
Samuel Adams
11. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
The Rosenbergs
J. Edgar Hoover
Helsinki Accords
12. 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
New Look
Deists
Black Thursday
Puritans
13. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Black codes
H. L. Mencken
Henry Clay
J. Edgar Hoover
14. 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
Hartford Convention
Alien and Sedition Acts
AAA
The Age of Reason
15. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
CIA
Articles of Confederation
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Popular Front
16. The nickname of the Progressive Republican Party - led by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. This party had the best showing of any third party in the history of the US. Its emergence dramatically weakened the Republican Party and allowed the D
Camp meetings
Eugenics
Bull Moose Party
Annapolis Convention
17. 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.
Antietam
Bacon's Rebellion
Camp David Accords
CIA
18. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
Henry Hudson
Students for a Democratic Society
Nuremburg Trials
Black codes
19. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
20. 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
Bank veto
Popular Front
Cash-and-carry
Sacco-Vanzetti case
21. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Samuel de Champlain
Silent Spring
Jane Addams
Camp meetings
22. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance
Shoot-on-sight order
23. 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
Gag rule
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alger Hiss
Anti-Imperialist League
24. A group of zealous Chinese nationalists terrorized foreigners and Chinese Christians - capturing Beijing (Peking) in June 1900 and threatening European and American interests in Chinese markets. The US committed 2 -500 men to an international force t
Stokely Carmichael
John C. Calhoun
Boxer Rebellion
J. Robert Oppenheimer
25. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Deists
Boston Massacre
A Century of Dishonor
26. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Henry David Thoreau
Winston Churchill
Silent Spring
27. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Mutual Assured Destruction
Brown v Board of Ed
28. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Black codes
John Cabot
Treaty of San Lorenzo
29. 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
John C. Calhoun
Atlantic Charter
New Look
30. 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.
Quasi-war
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
Silent Spring
31. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Camp David Accords
John Steinbeck
Mikhail Gorbachev
Northwest Ordinance
32. 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).
Henry Hudson
Carpetbaggers
Edgar Allen Poe
Albany Plan
33. Prime minister of England from 1940 to 1945. He was known for his inspirational speeches and zealous pursuit of war victory. Together he - FDR - and Stalin mapped out the post-war world order as the "Big Three." In 1946 - he coined the term "iron cur
Bootleggers
Camp David Accords
Winston Churchill
Smith-Connolly Act
34. 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'
Battle of the Bulge
James Fenimore Cooper
John Adams
Gulf War
35. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Samuel de Champlain
George Bush
James Buchanan
36. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Tripartite Pact
Big stick diplomacy
A Century of Dishonor
37. 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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38. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Eugenics
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Baby boom
39. 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.
Treaty of Ghent
Atomic Energy Commission
Quasi-war
Hartford Convention
40. 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
Berlin Wall
To Secure These Rights
William Randolph Hearst
Alger Hiss
41. Written by Kate Chopin in 1899. This novel portrays a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man - and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. It
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Society
The Awakening
Jay's Treaty
42. 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
John Adams
Students for a Democratic Society
Committee to Defend America First
AFL
43. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Gulf War
Nathaniel Hawthorne
CIA
Reaganomics
44. 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
Walt Whitman
Tripartite Pact
Saddam Hussein
Brown v Board of Ed
45. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Bay of Pigs
Annapolis Convention
Triangular Trade
46. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
Missouri Compromise
The Feminine Mystique
Black codes
47. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
CCC
Peace Corps
Bank veto
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Cabot Lodge
AAA
The Awakening
49. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Lend-Lease Act
Jacques Cartier
Mercantilism
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
Smith-Connolly Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Pendleton Act