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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Fidel Castro
Trust
Inflation
Albany Plan
2. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Salutary neglect
Joint-stock companies
CCC
Henry Clay
3. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Earl Warren
Baby boom
Susan B. Anthony
Samuel de Champlain
4. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Nuremburg Trials
Henry Hudson
John Adams
5. 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."
Quasi-war
To Secure These Rights
Shoot-on-sight order
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Berlin Blockade
J. Edgar Hoover
Quasi-war
Northwest Ordinance
7. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Bank veto
William Jennings Bryan
Iran-Contra affair
8. 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.
First Great Awakening
Berlin Wall
Treaty of Ghent
CIA
9. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Feminine Mystique
CCC
Ernest Hemingway
10. 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
Winston Churchill
Gettysburg
Leif Ericson
The Rosenbergs
11. 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
Anti-federalists
Battle of Britain
The Age of Reason
James Buchanan
12. 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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
A Century of Dishonor
Alger Hiss
The Feminine Mystique
13. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Berlin Blockade
14. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Lost generation
Dynamic conservatism
William Randolph Hearst
15. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Popular Front
Bay of Pigs
Boston Massacre
Great Society
16. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Berlin Wall
Deists
American Civil Liberties Union
17. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
John Brown
Students for a Democratic Society
Great Society
Kansas-Nebraska Act
18. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Bacon's Rebellion
Saddam Hussein
Puritans
Jay's Treaty
19. Founded in 1886 - this organization sought to organize craft unions into a federation. The loose structure of the organization differed from its rival - the Knights of Labor - in that it allowed individual unions to remain autonomous. Eventually the
Gettysburg
Tippecanoe
AFL
Checks and balances
20. 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
Trust
William Randolph Hearst
Lost generation
CCC
21. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
The Feminine Mystique
American System
22. 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
Committee to Defend America First
National Origins Act
The Rosenbergs
23. 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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24. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Popular Front
Allies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
James Fenimore Cooper
John Cabot
Eugenics
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
John C. Calhoun
CCC
Boston Massacre
Triangular Trade
27. 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
Fidel Castro
Brown v Board of Ed
Taft-Hartley Act
28. 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.
AFL
Joint-stock companies
Tiananmen Sqaure
Sedition Amendment
29. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Committee to Defend America First
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust
Fidel Castro
30. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
John Adams
Central Powers
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
31. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Mutual Assured Destruction
Tripartite Pact
Peace Corps
32. 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
Saddam Hussein
Checks and balances
Quasi-war
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. 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
Gettysburg
James Fenimore Cooper
Atlantic Charter
Berlin Blockade
34. 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
Bank veto
Boris Yeltsin
To Secure These Rights
Anti-Imperialist League
35. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Albany Plan
Dynamic conservatism
Jane Addams
Annapolis Convention
36. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Hartford Convention
Camp meetings
Anti-Imperialist League
Helsinki Accords
37. A small but prominent circle of writhers - poets - and intellectuals during the 1920s. Artists like Ernest Hemingway - F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Ezra Pound grew disillusioned with America's postwar culture - finding it overly materialistic and spirit
Lost generation
Annapolis Convention
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mercantilism
38. 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 Clay
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Boston Tea Party
39. 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
To Secure These Rights
Northwest Ordinance
Tiananmen Sqaure
40. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Axis powers
The Age of Reason
Bill of Rights
41. 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
Boston Tea Party
Henry Cabot Lodge
Atomic Energy Commission
William Jennings Bryan
42. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horatio Alger
43. During ratification - these people opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the federal government too much political - economic - and military control. They instead advocated a decentralized governmental structure that granted the most p
Great Society
Anti-federalists
CIA
Chinese Exclusion Act
44. 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
John Brown
Deists
Dynamic conservatism
45. 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
American System
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
The Awakening
46. 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
Bootleggers
Missouri Compromise
Lend-Lease Act
Bleeding Kansas
47. 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.
Central Powers
Annapolis Convention
Mikhail Gorbachev
John C. Calhoun
48. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Specie Circular
Mutual Assured Destruction
Sedition Amendment
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
Gettysburg
Popular Front
Palmer Raids
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Walt Whitman
Bootleggers
Salutary neglect