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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Salutary neglect
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chinese Exclusion Act
John Steinbeck
2. 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
Roger Williams
Jacques Cartier
John C. Calhoun
Ernest Hemingway
3. 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.
National Origins Act
Annapolis Convention
American Civil Liberties Union
Smith-Connolly Act
4. 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.
Earl Warren
Bank veto
Horatio Alger
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
5. 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 -
Walt Whitman
Alger Hiss
Atomic Energy Commission
Berlin Blockade
6. 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.
Trust
Camp meetings
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Henry David Thoreau
7. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Age of Reason
Sedition Amendment
Jacques Cartier
8. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
William Randolph Hearst
Horatio Alger
Pendleton Act
Alger Hiss
9. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Edgar Allen Poe
Roger Williams
Smith Act
Students for a Democratic Society
10. 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
Black Power
Hartford Convention
William Jennings Bryan
George Bush
11. 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'
Sedition Amendment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gulf War
Black Panthers
12. 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
Mercantilism
Anti-Imperialist League
Hartford Convention
Samuel Adams
13. 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
Puritans
Students for a Democratic Society
Corrupt bargain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. 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
Deists
Stokely Carmichael
John Cabot
15. 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
John Steinbeck
The Age of Reason
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quasi-war
16. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Tripartite Pact
The Age of Reason
Reaganomics
17. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Battle of the Bulge
Mikhail Gorbachev
18. 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
American System
Jimmy Carter
The Age of Reason
Leif Ericson
19. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Boxer Rebellion
Atlantic Charter
John Cabot
Mutual Assured Destruction
20. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
Black codes
Earl Warren
AAA
CCC
21. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Gettysburg
CIA
Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Assembly line
James Fenimore Cooper
23. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
The Age of Reason
First Great Awakening
Jane Addams
Joint-stock companies
24. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Joint-stock companies
Atlantic Charter
Carpetbaggers
25. 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
Stokely Carmichael
Henry David Thoreau
American Civil Liberties Union
Annapolis Convention
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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Treaty of Greenville
Ross Perot
Black Panthers
27. 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
Black codes
Gettysburg
Lend-Lease Act
Boston Massacre
28. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Helsinki Accords
Axis powers
Great Society
29. 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.
Treaty of Ghent
Pendleton Act
American System
House Un-American Activities Committee
30. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
First Great Awakening
James Buchanan
31. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Massacre
Leif Ericson
John Cabot
Checks and balances
32. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mercantilism
Samuel Adams
Tiananmen Sqaure
33. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Taft-Hartley Act
Antietam
34. 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
CIA
Edgar Allen Poe
Susan B. Anthony
Big stick diplomacy
35. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Smith-Connolly Act
Puritans
Missouri Compromise
Black Thursday
36. 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
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
Corrupt bargain
Jay's Treaty
37. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ross Perot
Henry David Thoreau
J. Robert Oppenheimer
38. 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
Treaty of Greenville
Civil Works Administration
National Origins Act
Triangular Trade
39. 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
Berlin Wall
John Brown
Detente
Annapolis Convention
40. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
John C. Calhoun
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leif Ericson
Tripartite Pact
41. 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.
Popular Front
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Treaty of Ghent
Committee to Defend America First
42. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
Committee to Defend America First
Anti-Imperialist League
Tippecanoe
43. 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.
Lend-Lease Act
John Adams
Big stick diplomacy
Corrupt bargain
44. 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
Hartford Convention
Bank veto
Black codes
Albany Plan
45. 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.
Reaganomics
Black Power
Bleeding Kansas
Black Thursday
46. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
John Adams
Quasi-war
Susan B. Anthony
Black codes
47. A protest against the 1773 Tea Act - which allowed Britain to use the profits from selling tea to pay the salaries of royal governers. In December 1773 - Samuel Adams gathered Boston residents and warned them of the consequences of the Tea Act. Follo
Dynamic conservatism
Boston Tea Party
James Buchanan
Black Power
48. 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.
Boston Massacre
Henry David Thoreau
Stokely Carmichael
Silent Spring
49. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
William Jennings Bryan
Bleeding Kansas
Bank of the United States
The Age of Reason
50. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Big stick diplomacy
Bill of Rights
Popular Front