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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Carpetbaggers
Smith Act
Trust
2. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Popular Front
Joint-stock companies
To Secure These Rights
Civil Rights Act
3. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
CIA
Alien and Sedition Acts
New Look
4. 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."
Big stick diplomacy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jimmy Carter
William Randolph Hearst
5. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
John Brown
Peace Corps
Gettysburg
6. Passed in 1930. This act limited the right to strike in key industries and authorized the president to intervene in any strike - eroding the generally amiable relationship between the government and organized labor during World War II.
Smith-Connolly Act
Specie Circular
Detente
Annapolis Convention
7. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Henry David Thoreau
Hartford Convention
The Age of Reason
Boston Massacre
8. 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
Black codes
Mikhail Gorbachev
Battle of Britain
William Randolph Hearst
9. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
John Quincy Adams
Students for a Democratic Society
10. 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
Bank of the United States
Iran-Contra affair
Nuremburg Trials
11. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Gulf War
Shoot-on-sight order
Jacques Cartier
House Un-American Activities Committee
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
Gettysburg
John C. Calhoun
Gulf War
Committee to Defend America First
13. 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.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Winston Churchill
Atomic Energy Commission
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. 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
Puritans
Mikhail Gorbachev
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Specie Circular
15. Primarily concerned with international espionage and information gathering. In the 1950s - this organization became heavily involved in many civil struggles in the Third World - supporting groups likely to cooperate with the US rather than the USSR.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Boston Massacre
John Cabot
CIA
16. 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
Checks and balances
Mercantilism
Mutual Assured Destruction
17. A leader of the Sons of Liberty. He suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence and fought for colonial rights throughout New England. He is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.
The Awakening
Trust
Samuel Adams
Black Thursday
18. 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.
Puritans
The Rosenbergs
Economic Opportunity Act
Lend-Lease Act
19. 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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20. 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
Samuel Adams
First Great Awakening
Trust
Kansas-Nebraska Act
21. 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
Deists
Tippecanoe
To Secure These Rights
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
22. 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.
Baby boom
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Helsinki Accords
Samuel Adams
23. Written by Betty Friedan in 1963. This book was a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement. It denounced the belief that women should be tied to the home and encouraged women to get involved in activities outside their home and family.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Henry Clay
The Feminine Mystique
Gettysburg
24. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Susan B. Anthony
Nuremburg Trials
25. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
26. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
House Un-American Activities Committee
Brown v Board of Ed
Anti-Saloon League
27. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dynamic conservatism
Tippecanoe
Battle of Britain
28. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Jimmy Carter
Roger Williams
Great Society
29. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Silent Spring
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gettysburg
30. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
Pendleton Act
Albany Plan
Civil Rights Act
31. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
Antietam
Jimmy Carter
Henry Cabot Lodge
32. Advocated isolationism and opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Committee members urged neutrality - claiming that the US could stand alone regardless of Hitler's advances in Europe.
Committee to Defend America First
Bill of Rights
Palmer Raids
Jacques Cartier
33. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
Camp David Accords
Mercantilism
Annapolis Convention
34. 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.
Puritans
Articles of Confederation
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A Century of Dishonor
35. 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
First Great Awakening
Boxer Rebellion
American Civil Liberties Union
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
36. 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
Civil Rights Act
CIA
Puritans
New Look
37. 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.
Popular Front
Joint-stock companies
John C. Calhoun
Battle of the Bulge
38. 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.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Bacon's Rebellion
Camp David Accords
Bank veto
39. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Tippecanoe
Atomic Energy Commission
The Beats
40. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
Anti-Saloon League
The Feminine Mystique
Quasi-war
AAA
41. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Earl Warren
CIA
42. 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
Civil Works Administration
Leif Ericson
James Buchanan
43. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Committee to Defend America First
J. Edgar Hoover
Walt Whitman
Boris Yeltsin
44. Created by FDR to cope with the added economic difficulties brought on by the cold winter months of 1933. The organization spent approximately $1 billion on short-term projects for the unemployed but was abolished in the spring of that year.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Civil Works Administration
John C. Calhoun
James Buchanan
45. 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
Pendleton Act
Anti-federalists
Henry David Thoreau
Palmer Raids
46. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Anti-Imperialist League
Berlin Blockade
Bank of the United States
Reaganomics
47. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Iran-Contra affair
J. Edgar Hoover
Economic Opportunity Act
48. 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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lend-Lease Act
Mutual Assured Destruction
Reaganomics
49. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Henry Cabot Lodge
Anti-Imperialist League
50. 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
John Brown
First Great Awakening
Gettysburg