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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Specie Circular
Articles of Confederation
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel de Champlain
2. 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.
The Beats
Cuban Missile Crisis
Eugenics
Black Panthers
3. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
American System
Antietam
Treaty of San Lorenzo
4. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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5. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Jimmy Carter
Dynamic conservatism
Alger Hiss
Walt Whitman
6. Led by future president William Henry Harrison - US forces defeated Shawnee forces in this battle in 1811. The US victory lessed the Native American threat in Ohio and Indiana.
Treaty of Greenville
Tippecanoe
Joint-stock companies
Anti-Imperialist League
7. The centerpiece of a congressional effort to restrict union activity. The act - passed in 1947 - banned certain union practices and allowed the president to call for an eighty-day cooling off period to delay strikes thought to pose risks to national
Gulf War
Taft-Hartley Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tripartite Pact
8. 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
Detente
Bleeding Kansas
To Secure These Rights
9. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Annapolis Convention
Leif Ericson
American System
10. 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
Smith Act
Saddam Hussein
The Awakening
The Beats
11. 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
Antietam
Atomic Energy Commission
Silent Spring
Corrupt bargain
12. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
Horatio Alger
Berlin Wall
H. L. Mencken
Battle of Britain
13. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earl Warren
Eugenics
Anti-Imperialist League
14. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Edgar Allen Poe
Mercantilism
15. 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
Reaganomics
George Bush
Ernest Hemingway
Treaty of Greenville
16. 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-federalists
Specie Circular
H. L. Mencken
Assembly line
17. 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
Baby boom
William Jennings Bryan
Bootleggers
Anti-federalists
18. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Jay's Treaty
Anti-federalists
Camp David Accords
19. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Allies
Committee to Defend America First
Lost generation
House Un-American Activities Committee
20. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-federalists
Anti-Imperialist League
Allies
Salutary neglect
21. 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
Boston Massacre
Specie Circular
Henry Cabot Lodge
Boxer Rebellion
22. 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
Antietam
The Rosenbergs
A Century of Dishonor
Earl Warren
23. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Berlin Blockade
John C. Calhoun
Gettysburg
Bank of the United States
24. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Assembly line
Specie Circular
Peace Corps
Gulf War
25. 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.
Cash-and-carry
Big stick diplomacy
Albany Plan
Leif Ericson
26. 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
CIA
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Triangular Trade
Reaganomics
27. 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
Bull Moose Party
Joint-stock companies
Alien and Sedition Acts
Andrew Carnegie
28. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Silent Spring
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Pendleton Act
Black Power
29. Conducted during the summer and fall of 1940. In preparation for an amphibious assault - Germans launched airstrikes on London. Hitlers hoped the continuous bombing would destroy British industry and hurt morale - but the British successfully avoided
Battle of Britain
AFL
Winston Churchill
Hartford Convention
30. 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
Henry Clay
Bill of Rights
Winston Churchill
Black codes
31. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
William Randolph Hearst
Camp meetings
32. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Battle of the Bulge
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Popular Front
33. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jay's Treaty
The Age of Reason
Susan B. Anthony
34. 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 -
Specie Circular
Sacco-Vanzetti case
John C. Calhoun
H. L. Mencken
35. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Northwest Ordinance
Iran-Contra affair
CCC
36. 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'
Bacon's Rebellion
Gulf War
Edgar Allen Poe
Bootleggers
37. 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
Jacques Cartier
Specie Circular
Axis powers
Henry Cabot Lodge
38. 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
Checks and balances
Leif Ericson
Susan B. Anthony
Ernest Hemingway
39. 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.
Taft-Hartley Act
Treaty of Ghent
Peace Corps
John Adams
40. Written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. Exposed the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT. Carson's book helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among the American people.
The Feminine Mystique
Andrew Carnegie
National Origins Act
Silent Spring
41. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Fidel Castro
George Bush
Boxer Rebellion
Chinese Exclusion Act
42. 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
To Secure These Rights
Bank of the United States
The Awakening
Mikhail Gorbachev
43. 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
Trust
The Beats
Corrupt bargain
44. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
The Age of Reason
Boxer Rebellion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Nickname given to northerners who moved South during Reconstruction in search of political and economic opportunity. The term was coined by Southern Democrats - who said that these northern opportunists had left home so quickly that they were able to
Jimmy Carter
Carpetbaggers
Bootleggers
The Age of Reason
46. 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.
Bootleggers
Dynamic conservatism
Bill of Rights
Ernest Hemingway
47. 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
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Bleeding Kansas
Missouri Compromise
Tiananmen Sqaure
48. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Cash-and-carry
Treaty of Greenville
Earl Warren
49. 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
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Inflation
American Civil Liberties Union
50. A conglomerate of businesses that tends to reduce market competition. During the Industrial Age - many entrepreneurs consolidated their businesses into these in order to gain control of the market and amass great profit - often at the expense of poor
Bootleggers
Henry Cabot Lodge
Trust
Anti-federalists