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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
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Great Society
James Fenimore Cooper
Axis powers
2. 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
Earl Warren
Eugenics
Jay's Treaty
Brown v Board of Ed
3. 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
Lost generation
Bank of the United States
Silent Spring
John Quincy Adams
4. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Anti-federalists
H. L. Mencken
5. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Inflation
Black Thursday
Taft-Hartley Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
6. 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
Reaganomics
Jacques Cartier
Missouri Compromise
Andrew Carnegie
7. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
Jay's Treaty
Assembly line
George Bush
William Jennings Bryan
8. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Mikhail Gorbachev
Pendleton Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
9. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Bill of Rights
Boston Massacre
J. Edgar Hoover
The Age of Reason
10. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Hartford Convention
Pendleton Act
Susan B. Anthony
Saddam Hussein
11. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bootleggers
Stokely Carmichael
Atomic Energy Commission
12. 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
Saddam Hussein
H. L. Mencken
James Fenimore Cooper
13. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Andrew Carnegie
Edgar Allen Poe
Hartford Convention
14. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Allies
Axis powers
Detente
15. 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
H. L. Mencken
John Brown
Atomic Energy Commission
16. 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.
Joint-stock companies
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Palmer Raids
Susan B. Anthony
17. 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
John C. Calhoun
Boris Yeltsin
Allies
Pendleton Act
18. 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
Specie Circular
Palmer Raids
Boston Massacre
Quasi-war
19. 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 -
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Albany Plan
William Jennings Bryan
20. 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.
Boston Massacre
Leif Ericson
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Big stick diplomacy
21. 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
Earl Warren
Popular Front
The Rosenbergs
Nuremburg Trials
22. 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
Civil Works Administration
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Tripartite Pact
Bleeding Kansas
23. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Battle of Britain
Great Society
24. Signed on Christmas Eve in 1815. Ended the War of 1812 and returned relations between the US and Britain to the way things were before the war.
Treaty of Ghent
Henry Clay
Palmer Raids
New Look
25. 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.
New Look
Earl Warren
Reaganomics
Central Powers
26. 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
Articles of Confederation
Anti-federalists
Students for a Democratic Society
Antietam
27. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Eugenics
Stokely Carmichael
Nathaniel Hawthorne
New Look
28. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bleeding Kansas
Reaganomics
H. L. Mencken
29. 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.
Black Power
Roger Williams
Henry Hudson
Samuel Adams
30. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Camp meetings
Treaty of Ghent
Andrew Carnegie
31. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Boston Massacre
Assembly line
Taft-Hartley Act
32. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Gettysburg
Tripartite Pact
Jacques Cartier
Stokely Carmichael
33. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Bacon's Rebellion
The Rosenbergs
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34. 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
John C. Calhoun
Civil Rights Act
William Randolph Hearst
Nuremburg Trials
35. 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
Roger Williams
Mercantilism
Silent Spring
Cash-and-carry
36. 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."
Articles of Confederation
Bank of the United States
Boston Massacre
Stokely Carmichael
37. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Popular Front
38. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
Hartford Convention
Missouri Compromise
Bull Moose Party
H. L. Mencken
39. 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
Samuel Adams
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black Thursday
Puritans
40. 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.
Central Powers
National Origins Act
Annapolis Convention
John Brown
41. Defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. The ordinace forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Allies
William Jennings Bryan
Northwest Ordinance
42. 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
Antietam
American System
CIA
William Randolph Hearst
43. 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.
Horatio Alger
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Awakening
Allies
44. 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
Northwest Ordinance
CIA
Atlantic Charter
45. 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.
Black codes
Specie Circular
Stokely Carmichael
Camp meetings
46. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Economic Opportunity Act
Silent Spring
Triangular Trade
Missouri Compromise
47. 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.
Anti-federalists
The Awakening
The Feminine Mystique
Andrew Carnegie
48. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Civil Rights Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Battle of the Bulge
Trust
49. 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.
Central Powers
Sedition Amendment
Jimmy Carter
Joint-stock companies
50. 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.
Hartford Convention
Bill of Rights
Atlantic Charter
Brown v Board of Ed