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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
James Buchanan
National Origins Act
Civil Works Administration
Helsinki Accords
2. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Black Panthers
Economic Opportunity Act
Bootleggers
First Great Awakening
3. 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
Puritans
Articles of Confederation
Battle of Britain
CCC
4. 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."
Inflation
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Bootleggers
Stokely Carmichael
5. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Detente
Lost generation
Northwest Ordinance
6. 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."
Alien and Sedition Acts
A Century of Dishonor
Gettysburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Berlin Blockade
Nuremburg Trials
Dynamic conservatism
8. 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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Salutary neglect
Brown v Board of Ed
Samuel Adams
9. 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
Central Powers
Bacon's Rebellion
Reaganomics
New Look
10. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Taft-Hartley Act
Peace Corps
National Origins Act
CCC
11. Signed on Christmas Eve in 1815. Ended the War of 1812 and returned relations between the US and Britain to the way things were before the war.
Treaty of Ghent
James Fenimore Cooper
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
New Look
12. 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
Boston Massacre
John Cabot
Mikhail Gorbachev
Civil Works Administration
13. 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).
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Chinese Exclusion Act
Edgar Allen Poe
Cuban Missile Crisis
14. 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.
Baby boom
Black codes
Gulf War
John C. Calhoun
15. 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.
Eugenics
CIA
Quasi-war
Edgar Allen Poe
16. 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
Berlin Blockade
Missouri Compromise
Salutary neglect
Black codes
17. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Atlantic Charter
Palmer Raids
Anti-Imperialist League
18. 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 -
Camp meetings
Ross Perot
Jimmy Carter
Sacco-Vanzetti case
19. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Joint-stock companies
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Boston Massacre
20. 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
Inflation
Boris Yeltsin
The Awakening
21. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Checks and balances
National Origins Act
22. Founded on the premise that the "perfect" human society could be achieved through genetic tinkering. Popularized during the Progressive Era - writers on this subject often used this theory to justify a supremacist white Protestant ideology - which ad
James Buchanan
Eugenics
Samuel Adams
Pendleton Act
23. 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
Bull Moose Party
Henry Hudson
Axis powers
Triangular Trade
24. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Saddam Hussein
Silent Spring
Trust
25. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Saddam Hussein
AAA
Brown v Board of Ed
Students for a Democratic Society
26. 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.
Black Power
James Buchanan
Jane Addams
Battle of the Bulge
27. 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
Baby boom
Civil Works Administration
Black Power
28. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Assembly line
Berlin Blockade
29. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Nuremburg Trials
Chinese Exclusion Act
Jane Addams
John Steinbeck
30. 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
John Cabot
Northwest Ordinance
Brown v Board of Ed
31. 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
Jimmy Carter
Boris Yeltsin
Taft-Hartley Act
Lost generation
32. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Age of Reason
Saddam Hussein
Taft-Hartley Act
33. 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
Specie Circular
The Rosenbergs
Smith Act
34. 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
Helsinki Accords
Salutary neglect
Treaty of Greenville
35. Constructed by the USSR and completed in August 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin. The wall cemented the poltical split of Berlin between the communist and authoritarian Eastand the capitalist and democratic West. The wall wa
Northwest Ordinance
Berlin Wall
Chinese Exclusion Act
Eugenics
36. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
The Beats
Atomic Energy Commission
Missouri Compromise
Atlantic Charter
37. 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
Bill of Rights
Popular Front
Treaty of Greenville
38. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Camp David Accords
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Rosenbergs
Axis powers
39. 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 -
Samuel Adams
Reaganomics
Alger Hiss
Chinese Exclusion Act
40. In 1962 - a year after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion - the US government learned that Soviet missile bases were being constructed in Cuba. President JFK demanded that the USSR stop shipping military equipment to Cuba and remove the bases. US forces
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tiananmen Sqaure
Bootleggers
Anti-Saloon League
41. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Feminine Mystique
John Adams
42. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Berlin Blockade
John Adams
Peace Corps
43. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Camp meetings
Cuban Missile Crisis
Articles of Confederation
44. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Salutary neglect
Bay of Pigs
Palmer Raids
45. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
First Great Awakening
Bank of the United States
The Feminine Mystique
46. 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
Roger Williams
Winston Churchill
Atlantic Charter
John Brown
47. One of the best known writers of the 1920s' "lost generation." An expatriate - he produced a number of famous works during the 1920s - including The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). A member of the Popular Front - he fought in the
Gulf War
The Feminine Mystique
Fidel Castro
Ernest Hemingway
48. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
American System
Bacon's Rebellion
Bank of the United States
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
49. 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
Winston Churchill
Jane Addams
Bank of the United States
John Brown
50. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Bootleggers
Committee to Defend America First
The Rosenbergs