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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Puritans
Mercantilism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Boris Yeltsin
2. 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'
New Look
Roger Williams
Gulf War
Reaganomics
3. 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
Jimmy Carter
Jay's Treaty
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
4. 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
Boston Massacre
Puritans
Camp David Accords
5. 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
The Rosenbergs
Bacon's Rebellion
Battle of Britain
Cuban Missile Crisis
6. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Susan B. Anthony
Anti-Saloon League
Smith Act
Leif Ericson
7. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Black Power
To Secure These Rights
Eugenics
8. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
National Origins Act
Jane Addams
Great Society
Henry Cabot Lodge
9. In September 1939 - FDR persuaded Congress to pass a new - amended Neutrality Act - which allowed warring nations to purchase arms from the US as long as they paid in cash and carried the arms away on their own ships. This program allowed the US to a
Cash-and-carry
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Susan B. Anthony
Earl Warren
10. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
New Look
Committee to Defend America First
Mikhail Gorbachev
11. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
John Quincy Adams
Mikhail Gorbachev
To Secure These Rights
AAA
12. 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.
Leif Ericson
Andrew Carnegie
J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Brown
13. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Chinese Exclusion Act
AAA
Axis powers
Antietam
14. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Berlin Blockade
Tiananmen Sqaure
15. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
Deists
Carpetbaggers
Treaty of Ghent
16. 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
Jacques Cartier
Edgar Allen Poe
Northwest Ordinance
17. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Mutual Assured Destruction
Annapolis Convention
Articles of Confederation
18. 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
Treaty of Greenville
Roger Williams
Bootleggers
Bleeding Kansas
19. 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.
John Brown
Northwest Ordinance
CIA
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
20. 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
Bootleggers
Camp David Accords
Joint-stock companies
21. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
John Cabot
Jane Addams
The Beats
Anti-Saloon League
22. 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
National Origins Act
Anti-Saloon League
Boxer Rebellion
Treaty of Ghent
23. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
William Jennings Bryan
Smith-Connolly Act
A Century of Dishonor
24. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
The Beats
Students for a Democratic Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bank of the United States
25. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
John Adams
Anti-Saloon League
Quasi-war
CIA
26. 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
Bill of Rights
Gag rule
Jimmy Carter
Roger Williams
27. 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
Winston Churchill
Missouri Compromise
National Origins Act
Checks and balances
28. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Articles of Confederation
Students for a Democratic Society
Carpetbaggers
The Rosenbergs
29. 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
Earl Warren
AAA
Tippecanoe
The Feminine Mystique
30. 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
Mercantilism
Henry Clay
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Assembly line
31. 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
H. L. Mencken
First Great Awakening
Atlantic Charter
Baby boom
32. 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.
John Quincy Adams
Battle of the Bulge
Economic Opportunity Act
Taft-Hartley Act
33. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Stokely Carmichael
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edgar Allen Poe
Berlin Wall
34. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Steinbeck
Dynamic conservatism
The Beats
35. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Missouri Compromise
New Look
Triangular Trade
Treaty of Greenville
36. 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
Jacques Cartier
Shoot-on-sight order
Lost generation
Leif Ericson
37. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
The Awakening
Samuel de Champlain
John Cabot
Lend-Lease Act
38. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Mercantilism
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Articles of Confederation
Tripartite Pact
39. 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
Ross Perot
New Look
Fidel Castro
40. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
Anti-Saloon League
CIA
Edgar Allen Poe
Black codes
41. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
Andrew Carnegie
Bank veto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bootleggers
42. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Atlantic Charter
CCC
43. 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.
Lost generation
Black Power
Peace Corps
Specie Circular
44. 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
Winston Churchill
Silent Spring
Ernest Hemingway
Camp David Accords
45. 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.
John C. Calhoun
Camp David Accords
Jacques Cartier
Quasi-war
46. 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
Lend-Lease Act
John Brown
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Gulf War
47. 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
Atlantic Charter
Palmer Raids
Samuel Adams
48. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Henry Clay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Boston Tea Party
F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The English government's policy of not enforcing certain trade laws it imposed upon the American colonies throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The purpose of this policy was largely to ensure the loyalty of the colonies in
Anti-Imperialist League
Deists
Treaty of Ghent
Salutary neglect
50. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Atlantic Charter
Missouri Compromise
Jay's Treaty