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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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."
Axis powers
The Beats
CIA
H. L. Mencken
2. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Central Powers
Ross Perot
CCC
3. 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
Deists
Bank veto
Iran-Contra affair
Big stick diplomacy
4. 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.
Antietam
Camp meetings
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mercantilism
5. 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
Bank veto
Roger Williams
Camp David Accords
The Rosenbergs
6. 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.
Bootleggers
Economic Opportunity Act
Albany Plan
Atomic Energy Commission
7. 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
Mercantilism
Carpetbaggers
Peace Corps
Alger Hiss
8. 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 -
Triangular Trade
Gulf War
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
9. 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
Horatio Alger
The Feminine Mystique
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Leif Ericson
10. Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Democratic-Republican support. On the grounds of "national security -" the acts increased the number of years required to gain citizenship - allowed for the imprisonment and depo
Alien and Sedition Acts
Palmer Raids
Earl Warren
Silent Spring
11. 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
Northwest Ordinance
William Randolph Hearst
Edgar Allen Poe
Carpetbaggers
12. Written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881 - this work attempted to raise public awareness of the harsh and dishonorable treatment of Native Americans at the hands of the US.
John Cabot
Iran-Contra affair
Albany Plan
A Century of Dishonor
13. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Northwest Ordinance
The Rosenbergs
Jane Addams
14. 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.
Silent Spring
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
James Buchanan
Joint-stock companies
15. 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
Winston Churchill
Northwest Ordinance
Missouri Compromise
Albany Plan
16. 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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17. 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.
Anti-Imperialist League
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
James Buchanan
Northwest Ordinance
18. A name for the trade routes that linked England - its colonies in North America - the West Indies - and Africa. At each port - shipes were unloaded of goods from another port along the trade route - and then re-loaded with goods particular to that si
Corrupt bargain
Triangular Trade
AFL
Camp David Accords
19. 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."
Nuremburg Trials
House Un-American Activities Committee
The Beats
Stokely Carmichael
20. 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
New Look
Big stick diplomacy
Bacon's Rebellion
AAA
21. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
American System
Berlin Wall
Quasi-war
22. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Allies
AAA
Kansas-Nebraska Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
23. Led by future president William Henry Harrison - US forces defeated Shawnee forces in this battle in 1811. The US victory lessed the Native American threat in Ohio and Indiana.
James Fenimore Cooper
Stokely Carmichael
Missouri Compromise
Tippecanoe
24. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
The Beats
The Rosenbergs
Nuremburg Trials
25. 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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26. 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
Battle of the Bulge
To Secure These Rights
Specie Circular
Mercantilism
27. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boris Yeltsin
Great Society
The Awakening
28. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Battle of the Bulge
James Buchanan
Bank of the United States
Bacon's Rebellion
29. 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
Carpetbaggers
George Bush
Jay's Treaty
Battle of Britain
30. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Winston Churchill
The Rosenbergs
William Jennings Bryan
31. 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
First Great Awakening
Boston Tea Party
Pendleton Act
Gag rule
32. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Berlin Wall
John Adams
Sedition Amendment
33. 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
AFL
John C. Calhoun
Gettysburg
John Steinbeck
34. 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
Great Society
Camp meetings
Anti-Imperialist League
Edgar Allen Poe
35. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Axis powers
Jay's Treaty
Bay of Pigs
36. 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
The Age of Reason
Brown v Board of Ed
Berlin Blockade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Civil Rights Act
Camp meetings
Axis powers
38. 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
The Awakening
Shoot-on-sight order
Mutual Assured Destruction
39. 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
Great Society
Walt Whitman
Boris Yeltsin
Northwest Ordinance
40. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Economic Opportunity Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
CCC
Tripartite Pact
41. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Massacre
Trust
Popular Front
Smith-Connolly Act
42. 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.
Lost generation
Henry Hudson
Helsinki Accords
CIA
43. 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.
Pendleton Act
Joint-stock companies
Tripartite Pact
Earl Warren
44. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Puritans
The Feminine Mystique
The Age of Reason
To Secure These Rights
45. 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
James Buchanan
AAA
Taft-Hartley Act
George Bush
46. 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
Reaganomics
Ernest Hemingway
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Joint-stock companies
47. 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).
Edgar Allen Poe
Committee to Defend America First
Baby boom
National Origins Act
48. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
Jay's Treaty
Missouri Compromise
Ernest Hemingway
Treaty of Greenville
49. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Big stick diplomacy
Smith Act
50. 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.
John Cabot
CIA
National Origins Act
Popular Front