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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Black Power
Bay of Pigs
J. Edgar Hoover
Boston Tea Party
2. 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.
Camp meetings
A Century of Dishonor
Jane Addams
John Quincy Adams
3. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
Antietam
Popular Front
Atlantic Charter
The Beats
4. 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.
H. L. Mencken
Lost generation
CCC
Leif Ericson
5. 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.
Black Power
Chinese Exclusion Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bill of Rights
6. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
To Secure These Rights
Black Panthers
Mutual Assured Destruction
Atomic Energy Commission
7. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Lend-Lease Act
Battle of the Bulge
Popular Front
8. Created by FDR to cope with the added economic difficulties brought on by the cold winter months of 1933. The organization spent approximately $1 billion on short-term projects for the unemployed but was abolished in the spring of that year.
Civil Works Administration
First Great Awakening
Corrupt bargain
Baby boom
9. 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
Anti-federalists
Salutary neglect
Carpetbaggers
Detente
10. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Bacon's Rebellion
Helsinki Accords
CCC
11. 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.
Silent Spring
John Steinbeck
James Fenimore Cooper
Baby boom
12. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Black Thursday
Taft-Hartley Act
Economic Opportunity Act
13. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Andrew Carnegie
Jay's Treaty
Quasi-war
14. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Anti-Imperialist League
William Jennings Bryan
John Adams
John Cabot
15. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Lost generation
Boxer Rebellion
John Cabot
John Steinbeck
16. 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.
Bull Moose Party
Jimmy Carter
Mercantilism
Bootleggers
17. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Berlin Wall
Salutary neglect
18. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Battle of Britain
Gag rule
National Origins Act
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
William Randolph Hearst
John Adams
Cash-and-carry
Battle of the Bulge
20. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Nuremburg Trials
William Jennings Bryan
Jane Addams
Gulf War
21. 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
John Brown
Missouri Compromise
Lend-Lease Act
Baby boom
22. 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
Ross Perot
Berlin Blockade
Alien and Sedition Acts
Assembly line
23. 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
Black Thursday
Mercantilism
Atlantic Charter
Albany Plan
24. 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
AAA
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Clay
Shoot-on-sight order
25. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Stokely Carmichael
Assembly line
Quasi-war
Shoot-on-sight order
26. 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
Henry Hudson
Baby boom
Battle of Britain
Antietam
27. 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.
Horatio Alger
Henry Hudson
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Lost generation
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.
Treaty of Greenville
Joint-stock companies
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ernest Hemingway
29. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Roger Williams
Boston Massacre
Anti-federalists
30. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Ernest Hemingway
Anti-federalists
Puritans
31. 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
Samuel Adams
The Awakening
Bay of Pigs
CIA
32. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Atlantic Charter
Salutary neglect
American System
Axis powers
33. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Act
Triangular Trade
Sedition Amendment
34. 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
Central Powers
Bull Moose Party
The Rosenbergs
James Buchanan
35. 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
Corrupt bargain
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Boston Tea Party
Iran-Contra affair
36. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Jimmy Carter
Sedition Amendment
Popular Front
37. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Carpetbaggers
Silent Spring
38. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Henry Clay
Civil Rights Act
Tripartite Pact
Roger Williams
39. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Jacques Cartier
House Un-American Activities Committee
William Randolph Hearst
40. 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
The Awakening
John Cabot
Big stick diplomacy
41. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lend-Lease Act
Jane Addams
Saddam Hussein
42. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Civil Works Administration
Anti-Saloon League
Pendleton Act
Missouri Compromise
43. 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
Gag rule
Mikhail Gorbachev
John Quincy Adams
Great Society
44. 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
Joint-stock companies
Committee to Defend America First
Detente
Lend-Lease Act
45. 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.
Triangular Trade
Nuremburg Trials
American System
Jane Addams
46. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Annapolis Convention
First Great Awakening
Helsinki Accords
47. 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
Gettysburg
Henry David Thoreau
Boris Yeltsin
Black Power
48. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Pendleton Act
Bay of Pigs
Checks and balances
J. Robert Oppenheimer
49. 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
Allies
James Fenimore Cooper
Lost generation
Henry David Thoreau
50. 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.
Baby boom
Earl Warren
Detente
Assembly line
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