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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Henry Hudson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Big stick diplomacy
2. 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
Missouri Compromise
Albany Plan
Winston Churchill
National Origins Act
3. 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
Black codes
Roger Williams
Iran-Contra affair
Tiananmen Sqaure
4. 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
Popular Front
Berlin Wall
The Awakening
5. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Lost generation
Salutary neglect
John Steinbeck
American System
6. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
Albany Plan
Roger Williams
Baby boom
Brown v Board of Ed
7. A meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 - in which the New England-based party enumerated its complaints against the ruling Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists - already losing power steadily - hoped that antiwar sentiment w
Hartford Convention
Alien and Sedition Acts
Brown v Board of Ed
Shoot-on-sight order
8. 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
Palmer Raids
Big stick diplomacy
Ernest Hemingway
Winston Churchill
9. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
Bay of Pigs
Economic Opportunity Act
Nuremburg Trials
Jacques Cartier
10. 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.
John Brown
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Feminine Mystique
Quasi-war
11. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Popular Front
J. Edgar Hoover
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Palmer Raids
12. 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.
Walt Whitman
Camp meetings
Students for a Democratic Society
Gettysburg
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).
Henry Clay
Winston Churchill
Edgar Allen Poe
Civil Rights Act
14. 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.
Black codes
Gulf War
Bull Moose Party
A Century of Dishonor
15. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Society
Albany Plan
Henry Cabot Lodge
16. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Earl Warren
House Un-American Activities Committee
Bootleggers
Great Society
17. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
John Steinbeck
New Look
A Century of Dishonor
18. 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
Black Thursday
Lend-Lease Act
Annapolis Convention
Stokely Carmichael
19. 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.
Black Panthers
Palmer Raids
Samuel Adams
Henry David Thoreau
20. 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
Eugenics
Black Power
Missouri Compromise
Taft-Hartley Act
21. 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
Dynamic conservatism
John Brown
John Cabot
Tiananmen Sqaure
22. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Andrew Carnegie
Pendleton Act
Tippecanoe
23. 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
Berlin Blockade
George Bush
Treaty of Greenville
24. 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
H. L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sedition Amendment
Earl Warren
25. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Jay's Treaty
Gag rule
Shoot-on-sight order
The Beats
26. 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.
Black codes
Albany Plan
Roger Williams
The Age of Reason
27. 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
The Age of Reason
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Black codes
Anti-Imperialist League
28. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
John Cabot
Jay's Treaty
Jacques Cartier
29. 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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Black Power
A Century of Dishonor
John C. Calhoun
30. 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
Joint-stock companies
Roger Williams
The Awakening
Inflation
31. 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.
Popular Front
Camp David Accords
Leif Ericson
Lend-Lease Act
32. 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
The Awakening
Salutary neglect
The Rosenbergs
Jacques Cartier
33. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
George Bush
Allies
American System
34. 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
Smith Act
Bank of the United States
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dynamic conservatism
35. 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.
Allies
Hartford Convention
Samuel de Champlain
Treaty of Greenville
36. 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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37. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Alger Hiss
Reaganomics
Atlantic Charter
38. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Jay's Treaty
John Steinbeck
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
39. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Quasi-war
Winston Churchill
New Look
Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. Passed in 1930. This act limited the right to strike in key industries and authorized the president to intervene in any strike - eroding the generally amiable relationship between the government and organized labor during World War II.
Gag rule
Smith-Connolly Act
Susan B. Anthony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Bull Moose Party
Leif Ericson
Black Panthers
42. 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
Lost generation
Battle of Britain
Joint-stock companies
Berlin Wall
43. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter
Gag rule
Silent Spring
Nuremburg Trials
44. 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
Black Thursday
Committee to Defend America First
Cash-and-carry
Boris Yeltsin
45. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gettysburg
Black Power
The Beats
46. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Central Powers
Black Panthers
Articles of Confederation
John Brown
47. 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
Walt Whitman
Boston Tea Party
Boxer Rebellion
Great Society
48. 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
Camp meetings
J. Edgar Hoover
Eugenics
Alien and Sedition Acts
49. 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
The Rosenbergs
Camp meetings
Camp David Accords
Inflation
50. 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
Albany Plan
Lost generation
Checks and balances
Tippecanoe