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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Peace Corps
Roger Williams
AAA
Horatio Alger
2. 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."
Axis powers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
H. L. Mencken
Atlantic Charter
3. 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
John Quincy Adams
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Gag rule
Civil Works Administration
4. 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
Carpetbaggers
Henry David Thoreau
Hartford Convention
Walt Whitman
5. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Winston Churchill
Black Panthers
Berlin Wall
John Cabot
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.
Roger Williams
Bill of Rights
Bull Moose Party
Camp meetings
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
Jacques Cartier
Henry Cabot Lodge
Peace Corps
Boris Yeltsin
8. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Bleeding Kansas
Atlantic Charter
Edgar Allen Poe
9. 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
Great Society
Leif Ericson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albany Plan
10. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
Lend-Lease Act
Atomic Energy Commission
Saddam Hussein
First Great Awakening
11. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Great Society
Bootleggers
Boris Yeltsin
Bank veto
12. 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
Checks and balances
Eugenics
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Clay
13. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Civil Works Administration
Triangular Trade
Bay of Pigs
14. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Carpetbaggers
Checks and balances
15. 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.
Mercantilism
Boxer Rebellion
CCC
Eugenics
16. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
Berlin Blockade
The Age of Reason
Henry Hudson
The Beats
17. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
Jay's Treaty
Salutary neglect
John Steinbeck
18. 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."
Alger Hiss
Roger Williams
The Awakening
Stokely Carmichael
19. 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.
American System
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Central Powers
Mikhail Gorbachev
20. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Cash-and-carry
Earl Warren
Boxer Rebellion
21. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Ross Perot
American System
Inflation
Assembly line
22. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Steinbeck
James Buchanan
Silent Spring
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
23. 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.
Central Powers
Tippecanoe
Black Panthers
Henry Cabot Lodge
24. 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
Winston Churchill
Boston Tea Party
Reaganomics
Detente
25. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Bootleggers
Gag rule
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gulf War
26. 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
Black codes
Jane Addams
Central Powers
John Brown
27. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Anti-federalists
Civil Rights Act
Allies
28. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Tripartite Pact
Shoot-on-sight order
Northwest Ordinance
The Beats
29. 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
New Look
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Camp meetings
Corrupt bargain
30. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Anti-federalists
Central Powers
Black Power
31. 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
Bill of Rights
Taft-Hartley Act
H. L. Mencken
Alien and Sedition Acts
32. 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."
Smith-Connolly Act
The Feminine Mystique
H. L. Mencken
Anti-Saloon League
33. Signed in 1975 by Gerald Ford - Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev - and the leaders of thirty-one other states in a promise to solidify European boundaries - respect human rights - and permit freedom of travel.
Deists
Bacon's Rebellion
Tripartite Pact
Helsinki Accords
34. 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
Atlantic Charter
Bay of Pigs
AFL
James Buchanan
35. 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
Leif Ericson
Palmer Raids
Great Society
William Jennings Bryan
36. 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
Mercantilism
The Rosenbergs
Bleeding Kansas
Corrupt bargain
37. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Annapolis Convention
New Look
Saddam Hussein
Eugenics
38. 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
AFL
Smith Act
Bill of Rights
Checks and balances
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
Bill of Rights
First Great Awakening
Henry Cabot Lodge
40. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism - these people believed that God - like a celestial clockmaker - had created a perfect universe and then stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws.
Deists
James Buchanan
Henry David Thoreau
The Beats
41. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Camp meetings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bill of Rights
42. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Quasi-war
Camp meetings
Corrupt bargain
43. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Winston Churchill
National Origins Act
The Age of Reason
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.
CIA
Ernest Hemingway
Smith-Connolly Act
Treaty of Ghent
45. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Antietam
Kansas-Nebraska Act
46. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Treaty of Greenville
Civil Rights Act
Smith-Connolly Act
47. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Ross Perot
Battle of Britain
CCC
48. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
William Randolph Hearst
J. Edgar Hoover
Puritans
Civil Works Administration
49. 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
The Rosenbergs
John C. Calhoun
Boston Tea Party
Camp meetings
50. 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
Bull Moose Party
Bill of Rights
Antietam
Henry David Thoreau