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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Jimmy Carter
Ross Perot
John Cabot
Cash-and-carry
2. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Andrew Carnegie
Hartford Convention
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Addams
3. 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.
James Buchanan
Gag rule
J. Edgar Hoover
Quasi-war
4. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Smith Act
Black Thursday
Fidel Castro
5. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
Big stick diplomacy
Leif Ericson
Walt Whitman
6. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
John Adams
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bay of Pigs
7. 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.
Jacques Cartier
Dynamic conservatism
Lost generation
Sedition Amendment
8. 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.
Deists
The Feminine Mystique
Jane Addams
Silent Spring
9. 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.
Roger Williams
National Origins Act
Mercantilism
Chinese Exclusion Act
10. 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
Hartford Convention
Ernest Hemingway
Annapolis Convention
Ross Perot
11. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Jacques Cartier
Black Thursday
Battle of Britain
12. Adopted in 1777 during the Revolutionary War. They established the first limited central government of the US - reserving most powers for the individual states. However they didn't grant enough federal power to manage the country's budget or maintain
Articles of Confederation
National Origins Act
Camp David Accords
Bootleggers
13. 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.
J. Edgar Hoover
Tiananmen Sqaure
Reaganomics
Treaty of San Lorenzo
14. 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
Silent Spring
Tripartite Pact
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hartford Convention
15. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Antietam
Ross Perot
Jacques Cartier
16. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Bleeding Kansas
To Secure These Rights
Puritans
Edgar Allen Poe
17. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
New Look
CCC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
18. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Jimmy Carter
Boston Massacre
Berlin Blockade
19. 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
H. L. Mencken
Bleeding Kansas
Stokely Carmichael
Henry David Thoreau
20. 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.
Smith Act
Henry David Thoreau
Black Power
Walt Whitman
21. 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
Henry Clay
Reaganomics
Salutary neglect
Baby boom
22. 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
Axis powers
Dynamic conservatism
Nuremburg Trials
23. 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
The Age of Reason
Berlin Blockade
House Un-American Activities Committee
24. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
John Brown
Economic Opportunity Act
John Steinbeck
Allies
25. 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
Cash-and-carry
Earl Warren
Gag rule
Boston Tea Party
26. 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
Missouri Compromise
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Puritans
Bull Moose Party
27. 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
Boris Yeltsin
The Beats
Andrew Carnegie
Taft-Hartley Act
28. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Civil Works Administration
Chinese Exclusion Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
29. 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.
Checks and balances
Big stick diplomacy
Bacon's Rebellion
Black codes
30. 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
Palmer Raids
The Rosenbergs
Students for a Democratic Society
Boxer Rebellion
31. 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
Civil Rights Act
Joint-stock companies
Roger Williams
Allies
32. 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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33. A conglomerate of businesses that tends to reduce market competition. During the Industrial Age - many entrepreneurs consolidated their businesses into these in order to gain control of the market and amass great profit - often at the expense of poor
Joint-stock companies
Trust
Battle of Britain
Samuel de Champlain
34. 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.
Quasi-war
Committee to Defend America First
CIA
Henry Clay
35. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Antietam
House Un-American Activities Committee
Leif Ericson
Northwest Ordinance
36. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Corrupt bargain
Edgar Allen Poe
Economic Opportunity Act
37. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
Jane Addams
James Fenimore Cooper
Assembly line
Iran-Contra affair
38. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Camp David Accords
Walt Whitman
A Century of Dishonor
American System
39. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Bacon's Rebellion
A Century of Dishonor
Stokely Carmichael
40. 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
Popular Front
First Great Awakening
Joint-stock companies
41. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Axis powers
Brown v Board of Ed
Black Thursday
42. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Carpetbaggers
Leif Ericson
Popular Front
Anti-Saloon League
43. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
CIA
Articles of Confederation
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hartford Convention
44. 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 Steinbeck
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Carnegie
Triangular Trade
45. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Anti-federalists
The Rosenbergs
Anti-Imperialist League
46. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Samuel Adams
William Jennings Bryan
Boris Yeltsin
47. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Fenimore Cooper
48. 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
Stokely Carmichael
AFL
William Randolph Hearst
Big stick diplomacy
49. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Henry David Thoreau
CCC
Gag rule
50. A fiction writer who gained popularity in the 1840s for his horrific tales. He published many famous stories - including "The Raven" (1844) and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
Boston Massacre
Peace Corps
Carpetbaggers
Edgar Allen Poe