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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
The Rosenbergs
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John C. Calhoun
Shoot-on-sight order
2. 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.
Tippecanoe
Reaganomics
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Civil Works Administration
3. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
Specie Circular
Stokely Carmichael
Trust
Black Panthers
4. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
American Civil Liberties Union
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Feminine Mystique
Students for a Democratic Society
5. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Brown v Board of Ed
The Rosenbergs
Anti-federalists
6. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Bank veto
Tippecanoe
John Quincy Adams
7. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Big stick diplomacy
John Adams
Inflation
8. 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
Civil Works Administration
Lost generation
Taft-Hartley Act
Economic Opportunity Act
9. 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
Jacques Cartier
Iran-Contra affair
Kansas-Nebraska Act
New Look
10. A series of raids coordinated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Throughout 1910 - police and federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations in thirty-two cities. The raids resulted in more
H. L. Mencken
Quasi-war
Palmer Raids
Puritans
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
Jacques Cartier
Winston Churchill
Lend-Lease Act
Great Society
12. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
Popular Front
Treaty of Greenville
Edgar Allen Poe
13. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Berlin Wall
Henry Cabot Lodge
Annapolis Convention
14. 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
The Awakening
Boston Tea Party
Detente
Jane Addams
15. 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.
John C. Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau
James Fenimore Cooper
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
16. 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
Camp David Accords
Baby boom
John Quincy Adams
Annapolis Convention
17. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank veto
Bank of the United States
Assembly line
Atomic Energy Commission
18. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Tippecanoe
The Rosenbergs
John Cabot
Lend-Lease Act
19. 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.
Earl Warren
Smith-Connolly Act
First Great Awakening
Walt Whitman
20. 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
Jane Addams
Big stick diplomacy
Dynamic conservatism
21. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Fidel Castro
Palmer Raids
Deists
Treaty of Greenville
22. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Trust
Bay of Pigs
Alger Hiss
Sedition Amendment
23. 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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24. 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
Horatio Alger
Lend-Lease Act
Palmer Raids
Henry Hudson
25. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuremburg Trials
Tripartite Pact
Boston Massacre
26. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
John Cabot
Axis powers
Horatio Alger
Jane Addams
27. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Mercantilism
John Quincy Adams
Allies
28. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Black Panthers
Smith Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Students for a Democratic Society
29. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
John Steinbeck
Nuremburg Trials
Silent Spring
30. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
House Un-American Activities Committee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treaty of Ghent
Stokely Carmichael
31. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
CCC
Black codes
Jacques Cartier
Mikhail Gorbachev
32. 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
National Origins Act
Pendleton Act
Trust
A Century of Dishonor
33. 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
Articles of Confederation
Allies
Fidel Castro
Boston Tea Party
34. 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).
Alien and Sedition Acts
Edgar Allen Poe
Missouri Compromise
Black Power
35. 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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36. 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 -
Gulf War
To Secure These Rights
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
37. The first ten amendments of the Constitution - which guarantee the civil rights of American citizens. Drafted by anti-federalists - including James Madison - to protect individuals from the tyranny they felt the Constitution might permit.
Boxer Rebellion
Bill of Rights
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Black Panthers
38. 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.
Peace Corps
Samuel de Champlain
Reaganomics
Black Power
39. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Eugenics
Lend-Lease Act
40. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Bleeding Kansas
Allies
Boris Yeltsin
41. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Henry Hudson
William Jennings Bryan
Boston Massacre
AAA
42. 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.
Black Panthers
Anti-Saloon League
Boxer Rebellion
Detente
43. 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
Leif Ericson
Stokely Carmichael
Boxer Rebellion
Gag rule
44. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
John C. Calhoun
Dynamic conservatism
New Look
45. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Helsinki Accords
Henry Hudson
William Jennings Bryan
46. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
AFL
Bay of Pigs
Andrew Carnegie
47. 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
Checks and balances
To Secure These Rights
Saddam Hussein
Articles of Confederation
48. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Salutary neglect
Gulf War
Susan B. Anthony
Berlin Wall
49. 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
Bay of Pigs
Bootleggers
Black Panthers
AFL
50. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Students for a Democratic Society
American Civil Liberties Union
Helsinki Accords