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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Fidel Castro
Walt Whitman
Missouri Compromise
Bank of the United States
2. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Articles of Confederation
J. Edgar Hoover
Anti-Imperialist League
Atomic Energy Commission
3. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
AFL
New Look
Earl Warren
Leif Ericson
4. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Quincy Adams
Tiananmen Sqaure
Popular Front
John Cabot
5. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Eugenics
Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. 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.
Gettysburg
Helsinki Accords
Tiananmen Sqaure
Berlin Wall
7. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Reaganomics
Kansas-Nebraska Act
8. 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
Hartford Convention
Battle of the Bulge
James Buchanan
9. 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
Allies
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Jacques Cartier
The Beats
10. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
Cash-and-carry
Joint-stock companies
Northwest Ordinance
11. 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
Ross Perot
Camp meetings
American Civil Liberties Union
Leif Ericson
12. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Anti-federalists
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tiananmen Sqaure
13. 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 -
Shoot-on-sight order
The Rosenbergs
Alger Hiss
Alien and Sedition Acts
14. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Samuel Adams
CCC
Henry David Thoreau
15. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gettysburg
Hartford Convention
16. 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
Hartford Convention
Cash-and-carry
Roger Williams
17. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
Boston Tea Party
Atomic Energy Commission
James Fenimore Cooper
Ross Perot
18. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism - these people believed that God - like a celestial clockmaker - had created a perfect universe and then stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws.
Deists
Bleeding Kansas
William Randolph Hearst
The Beats
19. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bay of Pigs
Reaganomics
Treaty of Ghent
20. 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'
Tiananmen Sqaure
Gulf War
Berlin Wall
John Steinbeck
21. 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
Bull Moose Party
Stokely Carmichael
A Century of Dishonor
Mercantilism
22. 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
Hartford Convention
CCC
The Feminine Mystique
Battle of the Bulge
23. 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."
Atomic Energy Commission
House Un-American Activities Committee
Mercantilism
Stokely Carmichael
24. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peace Corps
Tippecanoe
Bill of Rights
25. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Silent Spring
Fidel Castro
To Secure These Rights
Black Thursday
26. 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.
Inflation
Bacon's Rebellion
Popular Front
Dynamic conservatism
27. 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 -
Black Thursday
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Baby boom
Carpetbaggers
28. 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.
Alger Hiss
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay's Treaty
Reaganomics
29. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
CIA
Eugenics
Anti-Imperialist League
Central Powers
30. 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 Beats
Earl Warren
The Awakening
Henry Clay
31. 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
Hartford Convention
Atlantic Charter
American System
Bleeding Kansas
32. The last Soviet political leader. He became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and president of the USSR in 1988. He helped ease tension between the US and the USSR- work that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He oversaw the fal
Lend-Lease Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
J. Edgar Hoover
CCC
33. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
The Rosenbergs
Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
Allies
34. 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
Battle of Britain
Peace Corps
Anti-federalists
The Beats
35. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Trust
Northwest Ordinance
Walt Whitman
Shoot-on-sight order
36. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Civil Rights Act
Boxer Rebellion
37. 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.
Axis powers
Camp meetings
Economic Opportunity Act
Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. 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
Smith Act
To Secure These Rights
Carpetbaggers
Treaty of San Lorenzo
39. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Triangular Trade
American Civil Liberties Union
Battle of the Bulge
40. 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
Puritans
Mikhail Gorbachev
Susan B. Anthony
Bank of the United States
41. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Checks and balances
Jacques Cartier
Sedition Amendment
Deists
42. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Saddam Hussein
American Civil Liberties Union
Smith Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
43. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Black codes
Tripartite Pact
Bay of Pigs
44. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Battle of the Bulge
Cuban Missile Crisis
Axis powers
45. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
AFL
Students for a Democratic Society
Treaty of Ghent
46. 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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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
Committee to Defend America First
American System
Articles of Confederation
Camp David Accords
48. 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.
Axis powers
Puritans
William Jennings Bryan
American System
49. A series of twelve letters published by John Dickinson. The letters denounced the Townsend Duties by demonstrating that many ot the arguments employed against the Stamp Act were valid against the Townsend Duties as well. The letters inspired anti-Bri
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Black codes
Missouri Compromise
Shoot-on-sight order
50. 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.
Black codes
Big stick diplomacy
The Beats
National Origins Act
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