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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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."
H. L. Mencken
Peace Corps
John Brown
Chinese Exclusion Act
2. 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
H. L. Mencken
Atlantic Charter
Edgar Allen Poe
Carpetbaggers
3. 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.
Trust
Deists
Tripartite Pact
The Feminine Mystique
4. 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.
American System
Henry David Thoreau
Assembly line
Fidel Castro
5. 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
Inflation
Specie Circular
Eugenics
Checks and balances
6. Founded in 1920 - this organization seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals - often by bringing "test cases" to court in order to challange questionable laws. In 1925 - the organization challanged a Christian fundamentalist law in the Sco
Walt Whitman
Reaganomics
The Age of Reason
American Civil Liberties Union
7. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Iran-Contra affair
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dynamic conservatism
Economic Opportunity Act
8. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Cabot
Boris Yeltsin
AFL
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
9. Andrew Jackon's 1832 veto of the proposed charter renewal for the Second Bank of the United States. The veto marked the beginning of Jackon's five-year battle against the national bank.
John Steinbeck
Bank veto
Committee to Defend America First
Anti-Imperialist League
10. 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
National Origins Act
William Randolph Hearst
Shoot-on-sight order
11. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Edgar Allen Poe
Taft-Hartley Act
Joint-stock companies
12. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Taft-Hartley Act
Trust
Chinese Exclusion Act
13. 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.
Black codes
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sedition Amendment
Lost generation
14. 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
Bootleggers
Boston Massacre
Great Society
J. Edgar Hoover
15. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
Civil Works Administration
House Un-American Activities Committee
Lend-Lease Act
16. 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
Carpetbaggers
Civil Works Administration
George Bush
Helsinki Accords
17. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Susan B. Anthony
Puritans
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Rights Act
18. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bleeding Kansas
Albany Plan
H. L. Mencken
19. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Checks and balances
Bootleggers
Henry Clay
20. 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
Fidel Castro
Salutary neglect
Bacon's Rebellion
Assembly line
21. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Quincy Adams
Anti-federalists
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
Axis powers
George Bush
Cash-and-carry
John Brown
23. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Camp meetings
Baby boom
24. 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
Helsinki Accords
Missouri Compromise
Ernest Hemingway
Salutary neglect
25. 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
To Secure These Rights
Civil Rights Act
Assembly line
Ernest Hemingway
26. 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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ross Perot
Bill of Rights
Chinese Exclusion Act
27. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Tippecanoe
Treaty of Greenville
James Fenimore Cooper
28. 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
Triangular Trade
Civil Rights Act
John Quincy Adams
Saddam Hussein
29. 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
Black Thursday
Articles of Confederation
Horatio Alger
Nuremburg Trials
30. 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
American System
Allies
Peace Corps
Horatio Alger
31. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Jane Addams
Henry Hudson
CCC
Mutual Assured Destruction
32. 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
Salutary neglect
Camp David Accords
Peace Corps
33. 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.
Smith Act
Treaty of Ghent
Silent Spring
Chinese Exclusion Act
34. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Smith Act
Carpetbaggers
Quasi-war
Articles of Confederation
35. 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.
John Brown
Jay's Treaty
Annapolis Convention
Boston Massacre
36. 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
Henry Hudson
Big stick diplomacy
Jimmy Carter
Winston Churchill
37. 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
Boxer Rebellion
John Steinbeck
Dynamic conservatism
Mercantilism
38. 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 -
Atomic Energy Commission
Mutual Assured Destruction
Cash-and-carry
Alger Hiss
39. 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
Stokely Carmichael
Iran-Contra affair
James Buchanan
Jane Addams
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
Andrew Carnegie
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
National Origins Act
Alger Hiss
41. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Reaganomics
Salutary neglect
42. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Economic Opportunity Act
Samuel de Champlain
Salutary neglect
43. 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.
Smith Act
Reaganomics
Economic Opportunity Act
CIA
44. 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.
Berlin Wall
CIA
House Un-American Activities Committee
Checks and balances
45. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
James Fenimore Cooper
Big stick diplomacy
Puritans
John Brown
46. 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."
Smith Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quasi-war
Stokely Carmichael
47. 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.
Bill of Rights
Alger Hiss
To Secure These Rights
Smith Act
48. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Brown v Board of Ed
Great Society
J. Robert Oppenheimer
49. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Palmer Raids
Brown v Board of Ed
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
50. 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.
Corrupt bargain
Boris Yeltsin
Palmer Raids
Tiananmen Sqaure