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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black Panthers
Big stick diplomacy
AFL
2. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Henry Clay
Atlantic Charter
Popular Front
Assembly line
3. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
William Jennings Bryan
Lend-Lease Act
Committee to Defend America First
4. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
AFL
Smith-Connolly Act
Samuel Adams
Quasi-war
5. 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
Gulf War
Black Panthers
Students for a Democratic Society
6. 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
Atlantic Charter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Salutary neglect
Black codes
7. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
AAA
Camp David Accords
Mikhail Gorbachev
8. 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
Jacques Cartier
Bill of Rights
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Look
9. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Joint-stock companies
Checks and balances
Gettysburg
10. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
George Bush
Economic Opportunity Act
The Beats
Mikhail Gorbachev
11. 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
Civil Rights Act
The Age of Reason
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
12. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bay of Pigs
Jimmy Carter
A Century of Dishonor
13. 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.
John Quincy Adams
Big stick diplomacy
Sedition Amendment
Cash-and-carry
14. 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
Triangular Trade
Saddam Hussein
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Edgar Hoover
15. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
The Age of Reason
CCC
To Secure These Rights
Bank of the United States
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
Great Society
Jimmy Carter
William Jennings Bryan
17. 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
Gag rule
Sedition Amendment
Battle of Britain
18. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
Saddam Hussein
Smith-Connolly Act
Trust
First Great Awakening
19. 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.
Central Powers
American System
Walt Whitman
Roger Williams
20. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
CIA
To Secure These Rights
Quasi-war
Detente
21. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Annapolis Convention
Inflation
Albany Plan
22. 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
Checks and balances
Corrupt bargain
Earl Warren
Berlin Wall
23. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Cuban Missile Crisis
Trust
Henry Hudson
24. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
CCC
Camp David Accords
American System
Anti-Imperialist League
25. 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
Gettysburg
John Brown
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bank of the United States
26. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
Jacques Cartier
Walt Whitman
John C. Calhoun
27. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Henry David Thoreau
House Un-American Activities Committee
John Cabot
28. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Anti-federalists
Samuel de Champlain
Shoot-on-sight order
Fidel Castro
29. 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
Black Power
John Adams
Peace Corps
30. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Missouri Compromise
Atomic Energy Commission
Atlantic Charter
31. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Horatio Alger
Reaganomics
Fidel Castro
Anti-Saloon League
32. 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
Black Thursday
Anti-federalists
Gulf War
Treaty of Greenville
33. 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.
Puritans
Joint-stock companies
Ross Perot
Camp meetings
34. 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
Boston Massacre
H. L. Mencken
Boris Yeltsin
Bank of the United States
35. 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.
The Age of Reason
Allies
Tiananmen Sqaure
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Rosenbergs
Treaty of Greenville
37. 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
Popular Front
Hartford Convention
J. Edgar Hoover
Articles of Confederation
38. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Fidel Castro
James Buchanan
Palmer Raids
39. 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."
Taft-Hartley Act
Checks and balances
Civil Rights Act
H. L. Mencken
40. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
Great Society
Berlin Blockade
A Century of Dishonor
Puritans
41. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Black Thursday
Articles of Confederation
Gulf War
Boxer Rebellion
42. 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.
Bootleggers
The Rosenbergs
Articles of Confederation
George Bush
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
Boxer Rebellion
Smith-Connolly Act
Assembly line
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
44. 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.
Roger Williams
Treaty of Ghent
Nuremburg Trials
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
45. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Deists
Gettysburg
46. Leader of a group of senators known as "reservationists" during the 1919 debate over the League of Nations. He and his followers supported US membership in the League only if major revisions were made to the covenant. President Wilson - however - ref
Earl Warren
CIA
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Cabot Lodge
47. 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
Roger Williams
Bill of Rights
House Un-American Activities Committee
Samuel Adams
48. 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.
Helsinki Accords
A Century of Dishonor
Hartford Convention
New Look
49. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Edgar Allen Poe
Pendleton Act
Palmer Raids
50. 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.
The Awakening
Silent Spring
CIA
Shoot-on-sight order