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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Carpetbaggers
Samuel Adams
Tripartite Pact
2. 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.
Checks and balances
Iran-Contra affair
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Helsinki Accords
3. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Sedition Amendment
John C. Calhoun
Annapolis Convention
4. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Hartford Convention
Alien and Sedition Acts
John Brown
5. 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
John Adams
Henry David Thoreau
J. Edgar Hoover
6. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Great Society
Bank veto
John Brown
Anti-Imperialist League
7. A moderate Democrat with support from both the North and South who served as president of the US from 1857 to 1861. He could not stem the tide of sectional conflict that eventually erupted into Civil War.
Inflation
Henry Clay
Roger Williams
James Buchanan
8. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Jay's Treaty
John Steinbeck
James Buchanan
Antietam
9. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Bleeding Kansas
The Age of Reason
Iran-Contra affair
10. 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
New Look
American Civil Liberties Union
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Trust
11. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Samuel de Champlain
The Feminine Mystique
Winston Churchill
12. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Bank veto
Palmer Raids
Axis powers
Annapolis Convention
13. 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
John C. Calhoun
H. L. Mencken
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Awakening
14. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Cash-and-carry
Specie Circular
Reaganomics
15. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Black Panthers
Battle of Britain
House Un-American Activities Committee
Treaty of Greenville
16. 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.
Bootleggers
Edgar Allen Poe
Camp meetings
Anti-Imperialist League
17. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Pendleton Act
A Century of Dishonor
Stokely Carmichael
18. 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
First Great Awakening
Bootleggers
Baby boom
Iran-Contra affair
19. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Baby boom
William Randolph Hearst
The Rosenbergs
20. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Northwest Ordinance
Baby boom
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Treaty of San Lorenzo
21. 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
Henry Clay
Boston Massacre
Palmer Raids
Carpetbaggers
22. 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.
Eugenics
Black Thursday
Battle of the Bulge
Bull Moose Party
23. The nickname of the Progressive Republican Party - led by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. This party had the best showing of any third party in the history of the US. Its emergence dramatically weakened the Republican Party and allowed the D
John Steinbeck
Inflation
Shoot-on-sight order
Bull Moose Party
24. 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
Antietam
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Bay of Pigs
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
Treaty of Ghent
Iran-Contra affair
American Civil Liberties Union
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
26. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Anti-federalists
Baby boom
Nuremburg Trials
27. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Smith-Connolly Act
William Randolph Hearst
Tripartite Pact
Anti-federalists
28. 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
Baby boom
Roger Williams
Earl Warren
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29. 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
Lost generation
Treaty of Ghent
Helsinki Accords
Jacques Cartier
30. 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
Bank veto
Berlin Blockade
Anti-federalists
Mikhail Gorbachev
31. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
House Un-American Activities Committee
New Look
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Corrupt bargain
32. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Stokely Carmichael
J. Edgar Hoover
Anti-federalists
33. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Ross Perot
Chinese Exclusion Act
Hartford Convention
Jimmy Carter
34. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Bill of Rights
Treaty of Greenville
35. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Ross Perot
Triangular Trade
Assembly line
Bootleggers
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
Berlin Blockade
The Rosenbergs
Corrupt bargain
Detente
37. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Bootleggers
Peace Corps
Anti-Saloon League
38. Son of John Adams and president from 1825 to 1829. As James Monroe's secretary of state - he workerd to expand the nation's borders and authorized the Monroe Doctrine. His presidency was largely ineffectie due to lack of popular support; Congress blo
John Quincy Adams
Boris Yeltsin
A Century of Dishonor
John C. Calhoun
39. 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
Civil Rights Act
Albany Plan
Boris Yeltsin
Jimmy Carter
40. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
John Adams
Gettysburg
Stokely Carmichael
41. 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
Missouri Compromise
Gag rule
Detente
Black codes
42. 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
Hartford Convention
Baby boom
Assembly line
Detente
43. 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
John Steinbeck
Big stick diplomacy
Helsinki Accords
Henry Cabot Lodge
44. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Horatio Alger
Camp meetings
Inflation
John C. Calhoun
45. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Bootleggers
46. 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
Northwest Ordinance
The Feminine Mystique
Civil Works Administration
Albany Plan
47. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
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48. 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
Eugenics
Tripartite Pact
Quasi-war
Lend-Lease Act
49. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Hartford Convention
Nuremburg Trials
Black codes
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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Boris Yeltsin
Horatio Alger
The Feminine Mystique
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