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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
New Look
A Century of Dishonor
Central Powers
2. 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.
Alger Hiss
AFL
National Origins Act
John C. Calhoun
3. 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
National Origins Act
Civil Rights Act
Allies
Smith Act
4. 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
Missouri Compromise
The Age of Reason
5. 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
Reaganomics
Brown v Board of Ed
Eugenics
John Quincy Adams
6. 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
Trust
Deists
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Smith-Connolly Act
7. 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.
Winston Churchill
Earl Warren
Atomic Energy Commission
James Buchanan
8. 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.
Jay's Treaty
Alien and Sedition Acts
Salutary neglect
Economic Opportunity Act
9. Passed in March 1941. Allowed the president to lend or lease supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the US -" such as Britain - and was a key move in support ot the Allied cause before the US formally entered World War II. Was extende
Dynamic conservatism
Central Powers
Lend-Lease Act
Saddam Hussein
10. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
AAA
Boston Massacre
John Quincy Adams
William Jennings Bryan
11. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Atomic Energy Commission
Nuremburg Trials
Inflation
Missouri Compromise
12. 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'
Berlin Blockade
Checks and balances
Gulf War
Stokely Carmichael
13. 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
Popular Front
Anti-Imperialist League
Berlin Blockade
Dynamic conservatism
14. 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.
Saddam Hussein
American System
Joint-stock companies
National Origins Act
15. 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.
Eugenics
Helsinki Accords
Black Panthers
Annapolis Convention
16. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Anti-Saloon League
CIA
Peace Corps
17. An English explorer sponsered by the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 - he sailed up the river that now bears his name - nearly reaching present-day Albany. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.
Eugenics
Bull Moose Party
Henry Hudson
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
18. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Boston Tea Party
Big stick diplomacy
Helsinki Accords
19. 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
Winston Churchill
Inflation
Boston Tea Party
Treaty of Greenville
20. 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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Silent Spring
Carpetbaggers
Winston Churchill
21. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Corrupt bargain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Puritans
Students for a Democratic Society
22. 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
William Randolph Hearst
John Quincy Adams
Specie Circular
Bacon's Rebellion
23. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Civil Rights Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
24. 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
Quasi-war
New Look
Baby boom
25. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
Detente
Lost generation
John C. Calhoun
Civil Works Administration
26. 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.
Puritans
Earl Warren
Reaganomics
Allies
27. 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
Trust
Baby boom
Anti-Saloon League
Berlin Blockade
28. 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
Berlin Blockade
Alien and Sedition Acts
House Un-American Activities Committee
Battle of the Bulge
29. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
The Beats
Nuremburg Trials
30. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Boston Massacre
Dynamic conservatism
Smith-Connolly Act
31. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were charged with murder in Massachusetts in 1920 and sentenced to death. The case against them was circumstantial and poorly argued - although evidence now suggests that they were in fact guilty. It was significant -
Sacco-Vanzetti case
The Age of Reason
Black Panthers
Checks and balances
32. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
AAA
Sedition Amendment
Quasi-war
33. 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.
Alien and Sedition Acts
CCC
Camp meetings
Black Power
34. 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
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Great Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. 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
Carpetbaggers
Henry Cabot Lodge
The Age of Reason
Nuremburg Trials
36. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Detente
House Un-American Activities Committee
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.
James Fenimore Cooper
House Un-American Activities Committee
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Hudson
38. 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 -
Civil Works Administration
House Un-American Activities Committee
Helsinki Accords
Alger Hiss
39. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
Leif Ericson
Treaty of Greenville
Deists
H. L. Mencken
40. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Detente
Quasi-war
National Origins Act
Baby boom
41. Passed in 1940. This act made it illegal to speak of - or advocate - overthrowing the US government. During the presidential campaign of 1948 - Truman demonstrated his aggressive stance against communism by prosecuting eleven leaders of the Communist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Smith Act
Allies
National Origins Act
42. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andrew Carnegie
Students for a Democratic Society
Kansas-Nebraska Act
43. 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
Camp meetings
AFL
Mercantilism
Earl Warren
44. An important political figure during the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He engineered and championed the American System - a program aimed at economic self-sufficiency for the nation. As speaker of the house during Monroe's term in offi
Henry Clay
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Popular Front
Great Society
45. 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).
Salutary neglect
Edgar Allen Poe
Black Power
Berlin Blockade
46. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Brown v Board of Ed
Camp David Accords
Smith Act
47. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Black Panthers
Winston Churchill
Bull Moose Party
48. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Smith Act
Jacques Cartier
49. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
Ross Perot
Horatio Alger
Gag rule
Albany Plan
50. 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
Anti-federalists
The Age of Reason
Corrupt bargain
Taft-Hartley Act