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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Democratic candidate for president in 1896. His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator - he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president in
William Randolph Hearst
Bootleggers
William Jennings Bryan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
2. A religious zealot and an extreme abolitionist who believed God had ordained him to end slavery. In 1856 - he led an attack against pro-slavery government officials - killing five and sparking months of violence that earned the territory the name "Bl
House Un-American Activities Committee
Walt Whitman
John Brown
Cuban Missile Crisis
3. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
AAA
Cuban Missile Crisis
4. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Bank veto
Black Panthers
Boston Tea Party
5. 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
John Cabot
Quasi-war
Bull Moose Party
The Beats
6. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Detente
Peace Corps
Walt Whitman
Axis powers
7. 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.
Mercantilism
A Century of Dishonor
Students for a Democratic Society
Tippecanoe
8. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Treaty of Greenville
Bank of the United States
Jane Addams
Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Husband and wife who - in 1950 - were accused of spying for the Soviets. They countered the accusation on the grounds that their Jewish background and leftist beliefs made them easy targets for persecution. In a trial closely followed by the American
The Rosenbergs
CCC
Roger Williams
Bootleggers
10. 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
Assembly line
Anti-Imperialist League
Specie Circular
Bank veto
11. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Trust
Shoot-on-sight order
Gag rule
Jimmy Carter
12. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
John C. Calhoun
Axis powers
Albany Plan
13. 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.
National Origins Act
William Randolph Hearst
Helsinki Accords
House Un-American Activities Committee
14. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Puritans
Horatio Alger
Tiananmen Sqaure
15. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Joint-stock companies
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sedition Amendment
16. 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.
John Quincy Adams
Atomic Energy Commission
Horatio Alger
Assembly line
17. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Anti-Imperialist League
Roger Williams
Hartford Convention
18. 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
John Cabot
Bank of the United States
Detente
Lend-Lease Act
19. 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
AFL
James Fenimore Cooper
Dynamic conservatism
Ernest Hemingway
20. 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
Triangular Trade
Smith-Connolly Act
Lost generation
Berlin Blockade
21. 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
CCC
Roger Williams
Jay's Treaty
Leif Ericson
22. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Black Thursday
Hartford Convention
Pendleton Act
23. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Reaganomics
Bacon's Rebellion
Camp David Accords
Bay of Pigs
24. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Eugenics
J. Edgar Hoover
25. 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
Annapolis Convention
Gag rule
William Jennings Bryan
26. 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.
Lost generation
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American System
Helsinki Accords
27. 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
Stokely Carmichael
Central Powers
Samuel Adams
28. 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.
Peace Corps
Ernest Hemingway
Bank veto
Civil Rights Act
29. 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."
Stokely Carmichael
CIA
Walt Whitman
Taft-Hartley Act
30. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Smith-Connolly Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Fidel Castro
Helsinki Accords
31. 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."
Samuel Adams
Antietam
Atomic Energy Commission
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Smith-Connolly Act
Sedition Amendment
Bank of the United States
Pendleton Act
33. 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.
American System
Gulf War
Leif Ericson
Great Society
34. 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.
Helsinki Accords
George Bush
Gettysburg
Gag rule
35. 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.
Gag rule
H. L. Mencken
Samuel Adams
Atomic Energy Commission
36. 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
Popular Front
Students for a Democratic Society
A Century of Dishonor
Boxer Rebellion
37. 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.
Boston Massacre
Lend-Lease Act
Specie Circular
Shoot-on-sight order
38. 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
Tripartite Pact
Mikhail Gorbachev
William Jennings Bryan
Alien and Sedition Acts
39. 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
Black Thursday
Trust
Shoot-on-sight order
Antietam
40. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Treaty of Greenville
Palmer Raids
John Cabot
41. 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
Corrupt bargain
Northwest Ordinance
Lost generation
Camp David Accords
42. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Boris Yeltsin
National Origins Act
Anti-Saloon League
Baby boom
43. An important political figure during the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He engineered and championed the American System - a program aimed at economic self-sufficiency for the nation. As speaker of the house during Monroe's term in offi
Henry Clay
AAA
Ross Perot
Earl Warren
44. 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
Trust
Black Panthers
Bank of the United States
Tippecanoe
45. 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
Bank veto
John Quincy Adams
Henry David Thoreau
Jacques Cartier
46. 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
National Origins Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carpetbaggers
Ross Perot
47. The partnership of Great Britain - France - and Italy during World War I. The alliance was pitted against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In 1917 - the US joined the war on this side. During World War II - the coalition included Gr
Allies
Brown v Board of Ed
The Awakening
Specie Circular
48. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Deists
Joint-stock companies
Alien and Sedition Acts
49. 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
CCC
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bank of the United States
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
AAA
Popular Front
Boxer Rebellion
Smith Act
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