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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Gulf War
Stokely Carmichael
Dynamic conservatism
Nuremburg Trials
2. 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
Battle of Britain
John C. Calhoun
The Age of Reason
Chinese Exclusion Act
3. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Economic Opportunity Act
Samuel Adams
Peace Corps
William Jennings Bryan
4. 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.
Jane Addams
Albany Plan
Cuban Missile Crisis
American System
5. A small but prominent circle of writhers - poets - and intellectuals during the 1920s. Artists like Ernest Hemingway - F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Ezra Pound grew disillusioned with America's postwar culture - finding it overly materialistic and spirit
Lost generation
Bill of Rights
National Origins Act
Boxer Rebellion
6. 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.
Great Society
American System
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Reaganomics
7. A leader of the Sons of Liberty. He suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence and fought for colonial rights throughout New England. He is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.
Smith-Connolly Act
Checks and balances
Samuel Adams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. 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.
Albany Plan
Atomic Energy Commission
James Buchanan
American System
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
Jay's Treaty
First Great Awakening
Carpetbaggers
Samuel Adams
10. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Anti-Saloon League
Northwest Ordinance
George Bush
11. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Camp David Accords
Stokely Carmichael
The Beats
12. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Albany Plan
Mercantilism
Henry Cabot Lodge
13. 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
Bank veto
Corrupt bargain
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Black Power
14. 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.
The Awakening
Henry Hudson
John Adams
Alien and Sedition Acts
15. 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
Missouri Compromise
Assembly line
John Brown
16. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Henry Clay
John Cabot
The Beats
The Rosenbergs
17. 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
Smith Act
Articles of Confederation
House Un-American Activities Committee
18. 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
The Beats
William Randolph Hearst
Mutual Assured Destruction
19. 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
Carpetbaggers
Bank veto
Andrew Carnegie
20. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Peace Corps
Deists
21. 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
Sedition Amendment
Deists
Jimmy Carter
Iran-Contra affair
22. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Horatio Alger
Quasi-war
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Susan B. Anthony
23. 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 -
Alger Hiss
CIA
Susan B. Anthony
J. Robert Oppenheimer
24. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Popular Front
Inflation
American System
25. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Silent Spring
Jay's Treaty
Students for a Democratic Society
A Century of Dishonor
26. 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
Berlin Wall
The Awakening
Salutary neglect
Henry Clay
27. 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.
Missouri Compromise
Tiananmen Sqaure
Trust
A Century of Dishonor
28. 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
Hartford Convention
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Tippecanoe
Bull Moose Party
29. 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.
Ross Perot
Assembly line
Shoot-on-sight order
Black Panthers
30. In 1962 - a year after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion - the US government learned that Soviet missile bases were being constructed in Cuba. President JFK demanded that the USSR stop shipping military equipment to Cuba and remove the bases. US forces
Bank of the United States
Pendleton Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
Deists
31. 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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32. 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
Battle of Britain
Tiananmen Sqaure
Iran-Contra affair
Jacques Cartier
33. 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
Bay of Pigs
Black Panthers
Baby boom
34. 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
Gettysburg
Shoot-on-sight order
Bill of Rights
35. 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
John Brown
Hartford Convention
American Civil Liberties Union
Peace Corps
36. 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
Camp meetings
Cash-and-carry
37. 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.
Jimmy Carter
Jay's Treaty
Chinese Exclusion Act
Edgar Allen Poe
38. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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39. 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
John Brown
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Anti-federalists
40. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mutual Assured Destruction
Peace Corps
41. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
William Jennings Bryan
Baby boom
Peace Corps
Edgar Allen Poe
42. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
William Jennings Bryan
Boston Massacre
Camp David Accords
George Bush
43. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Annapolis Convention
Mutual Assured Destruction
Iran-Contra affair
44. 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.
Roger Williams
Bank veto
Mercantilism
Black codes
45. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Checks and balances
Nuremburg Trials
The Beats
Chinese Exclusion Act
46. 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.
Eugenics
John Adams
John Cabot
Henry Cabot Lodge
47. 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
Triangular Trade
Bleeding Kansas
Civil Rights Act
Treaty of Ghent
48. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Anti-federalists
Committee to Defend America First
Cash-and-carry
49. 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
Roger Williams
Mutual Assured Destruction
Henry David Thoreau
Great Society
50. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Inflation
American Civil Liberties Union
Tippecanoe
Saddam Hussein