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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Brown v Board of Ed
Bill of Rights
2. 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.
Baby boom
Detente
Camp meetings
Central Powers
3. 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
John Cabot
Carpetbaggers
Camp David Accords
4. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Berlin Blockade
Civil Rights Act
Leif Ericson
5. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
George Bush
Iran-Contra affair
A Century of Dishonor
House Un-American Activities Committee
6. 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
Trust
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Samuel de Champlain
7. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Missouri Compromise
Mikhail Gorbachev
Antietam
8. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Lost generation
Brown v Board of Ed
Dynamic conservatism
9. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election - he failed to win the requisite majority and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams for
Assembly line
Edgar Allen Poe
Corrupt bargain
First Great Awakening
10. 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
John Brown
Carpetbaggers
Corrupt bargain
Boris Yeltsin
11. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Committee to Defend America First
Leif Ericson
Battle of Britain
12. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Bleeding Kansas
Central Powers
Tiananmen Sqaure
13. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Allies
Earl Warren
Popular Front
14. 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
Antietam
Stokely Carmichael
Winston Churchill
Triangular Trade
15. 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
Tippecanoe
Battle of the Bulge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. President Eisenhower's philosophy of government. He called it this to distinguish it from the Republican administrations of the past - which he deemed backword-looking and complacent. He was determined to work with the Democratic Party rather than ag
Puritans
Nuremburg Trials
Dynamic conservatism
Iran-Contra affair
17. 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.
Taft-Hartley Act
Leif Ericson
A Century of Dishonor
Ross Perot
18. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Awakening
Mutual Assured Destruction
Iran-Contra affair
19. 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
National Origins Act
Andrew Carnegie
Palmer Raids
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Cash-and-carry
Smith Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
William Jennings Bryan
21. 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
Dynamic conservatism
CCC
Articles of Confederation
22. 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
Allies
Jacques Cartier
Palmer Raids
Nathaniel Hawthorne
23. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Black Panthers
Boston Massacre
AFL
The Feminine Mystique
24. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Sedition Amendment
Tippecanoe
Jacques Cartier
25. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
CIA
Lend-Lease Act
Bay of Pigs
National Origins Act
26. 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
AFL
To Secure These Rights
27. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Shoot-on-sight order
Triangular Trade
Eugenics
28. 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
The Beats
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jimmy Carter
Bleeding Kansas
29. 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
George Bush
The Feminine Mystique
Antietam
Missouri Compromise
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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Bill of Rights
Samuel Adams
A Century of Dishonor
31. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Trust
Smith-Connolly Act
Henry David Thoreau
To Secure These Rights
32. The final German offensive in Western Europe - lasting from December 16 - 1944 - to January 16 - 1945. Hitler amassed his last reserves against Allied troops in France. Germany made a substantial dent in the Allied front line - but the Allies recover
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Black codes
Battle of the Bulge
Cash-and-carry
33. 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
George Bush
Saddam Hussein
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
34. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Henry Clay
Dynamic conservatism
35. 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 -
Jay's Treaty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Alger Hiss
Winston Churchill
36. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Bill of Rights
Tippecanoe
Camp David Accords
37. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Bay of Pigs
The Awakening
The Age of Reason
38. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Samuel Adams
American System
39. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Mercantilism
Fidel Castro
American System
Economic Opportunity Act
40. 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
Jimmy Carter
Allies
Shoot-on-sight order
Nuremburg Trials
41. 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.
Winston Churchill
Taft-Hartley Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Civil Works Administration
42. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Roger Williams
Gulf War
Popular Front
43. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Bank of the United States
Anti-Imperialist League
Battle of the Bulge
Walt Whitman
44. 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.
Horatio Alger
Berlin Wall
Committee to Defend America First
The Awakening
45. 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
Joint-stock companies
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bootleggers
46. 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
Roger Williams
Boxer Rebellion
Anti-federalists
Nuremburg Trials
47. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Camp meetings
Articles of Confederation
New Look
Students for a Democratic Society
48. 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
Popular Front
Berlin Blockade
John C. Calhoun
Stokely Carmichael
49. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Tripartite Pact
Treaty of Ghent
John Cabot
Sedition Amendment
50. 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."
Camp David Accords
Reaganomics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Century of Dishonor