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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
New Look
Berlin Blockade
Anti-Imperialist League
Articles of Confederation
2. 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 It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Joint-stock companies
Gag rule
Gettysburg
Anti-federalists
3. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Fidel Castro
Atomic Energy Commission
John Quincy Adams
4. 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
Smith Act
Albany Plan
House Un-American Activities Committee
First Great Awakening
5. 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
Berlin Blockade
Shoot-on-sight order
Joint-stock companies
Carpetbaggers
6. 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.
Mercantilism
Black Power
Tiananmen Sqaure
Brown v Board of Ed
7. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
William Jennings Bryan
Mikhail Gorbachev
American System
8. 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."
Bay of Pigs
Stokely Carmichael
The Beats
AAA
9. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Sedition Amendment
Samuel de Champlain
Assembly line
10. 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.
Camp David Accords
Central Powers
Boston Massacre
Andrew Carnegie
11. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Black Thursday
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Fidel Castro
Anti-Imperialist League
12. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Bleeding Kansas
Henry Hudson
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Hartford Convention
13. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Black Panthers
House Un-American Activities Committee
H. L. Mencken
Assembly line
14. 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'
Northwest Ordinance
Axis powers
To Secure These Rights
Gulf War
15. 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
Corrupt bargain
Roger Williams
Bootleggers
16. 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
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
The Rosenbergs
Brown v Board of Ed
17. 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).
Battle of the Bulge
National Origins Act
Edgar Allen Poe
Chinese Exclusion Act
18. 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
American System
Baby boom
Trust
Battle of the Bulge
19. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Black Power
John Adams
20. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Camp David Accords
Jacques Cartier
Cash-and-carry
21. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Brown
Sedition Amendment
22. 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.
National Origins Act
Saddam Hussein
Mercantilism
Annapolis Convention
23. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Henry Hudson
Silent Spring
Tiananmen Sqaure
Civil Rights Act
24. Passed in 1940. This act made it illegal to speak of - or advocate - overthrowing the US government. During the presidential campaign of 1948 - Truman demonstrated his aggressive stance against communism by prosecuting eleven leaders of the Communist
Civil Rights Act
Smith Act
Antietam
Taft-Hartley Act
25. 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
Civil Rights Act
Eugenics
Berlin Wall
Reaganomics
26. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
John Steinbeck
Bill of Rights
Chinese Exclusion Act
Anti-Imperialist League
27. 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
Civil Works Administration
Henry Cabot Lodge
Dynamic conservatism
AAA
28. 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
Boston Massacre
Bank of the United States
29. 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
Jimmy Carter
Anti-federalists
Camp David Accords
George Bush
30. 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
The Beats
Eugenics
Bacon's Rebellion
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
31. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Joint-stock companies
Nuremburg Trials
32. 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
Antietam
Big stick diplomacy
William Randolph Hearst
Iran-Contra affair
33. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Trust
Chinese Exclusion Act
Eugenics
34. 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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
A Century of Dishonor
Civil Works Administration
Camp David Accords
35. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Gulf War
Triangular Trade
Saddam Hussein
36. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Mikhail Gorbachev
John Cabot
The Age of Reason
Anti-Imperialist League
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
Stokely Carmichael
CIA
Samuel Adams
38. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Berlin Wall
Gettysburg
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
39. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
Baby boom
Anti-Imperialist League
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Carpetbaggers
Bill of Rights
Sedition Amendment
41. 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.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Black Panthers
Reaganomics
Jane Addams
42. 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
Articles of Confederation
Carpetbaggers
Detente
National Origins Act
43. 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
Albany Plan
Cash-and-carry
The Age of Reason
Baby boom
44. 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.
Samuel Adams
John Adams
James Fenimore Cooper
Committee to Defend America First
45. 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
Bay of Pigs
Great Society
Central Powers
Roger Williams
46. 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 -
AAA
Horatio Alger
Quasi-war
Sacco-Vanzetti case
47. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
The Beats
Berlin Wall
Gag rule
48. 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
Reaganomics
Anti-federalists
John Quincy Adams
The Rosenbergs
49. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Clay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Students for a Democratic Society
50. 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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