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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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."
Quasi-war
Boston Massacre
Ross Perot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. 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.
Assembly line
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Specie Circular
Bill of Rights
3. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Ross Perot
National Origins Act
Quasi-war
Berlin Wall
4. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Treaty of Ghent
John Steinbeck
Black Thursday
Bootleggers
5. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Ross Perot
Puritans
American System
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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Cash-and-carry
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
7. 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
Bull Moose Party
Jane Addams
Peace Corps
Black Thursday
8. 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 It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Cash-and-carry
Berlin Wall
Gag rule
William Randolph Hearst
9. 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
Nuremburg Trials
William Jennings Bryan
Jane Addams
Henry Hudson
10. 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.
John Cabot
Tippecanoe
Checks and balances
Assembly line
11. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Hudson
Corrupt bargain
CIA
12. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Walt Whitman
Henry Clay
Inflation
Jay's Treaty
13. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Iran-Contra affair
Kansas-Nebraska Act
New Look
14. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Silent Spring
Pendleton Act
Assembly line
15. 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
Salutary neglect
Stokely Carmichael
Hartford Convention
Smith Act
16. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Chinese Exclusion Act
AAA
Atomic Energy Commission
Boston Massacre
17. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
William Jennings Bryan
Assembly line
Antietam
Civil Rights Act
18. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Atlantic Charter
Civil Works Administration
Students for a Democratic Society
Cash-and-carry
19. 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
Saddam Hussein
Tippecanoe
Gulf War
Smith Act
20. 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.
Economic Opportunity Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quasi-war
Bill of Rights
21. 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.
Articles of Confederation
American System
Horatio Alger
Carpetbaggers
22. 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
Camp meetings
Henry Hudson
John Quincy Adams
Taft-Hartley Act
23. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Bank of the United States
Berlin Wall
Horatio Alger
24. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Popular Front
Students for a Democratic Society
Allies
25. 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.
Albany Plan
Annapolis Convention
Corrupt bargain
Winston Churchill
26. 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
The Awakening
Saddam Hussein
Alien and Sedition Acts
Silent Spring
27. 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
Smith Act
Corrupt bargain
Axis powers
Battle of the Bulge
28. 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
Saddam Hussein
Atlantic Charter
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
29. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Palmer Raids
Saddam Hussein
30. 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
First Great Awakening
Walt Whitman
Boxer Rebellion
31. 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
Anti-federalists
Salutary neglect
National Origins Act
A Century of Dishonor
32. 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
Detente
Atlantic Charter
Henry Cabot Lodge
Specie Circular
33. 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.
Deists
The Awakening
Horatio Alger
Jay's Treaty
34. 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.
Silent Spring
Albany Plan
Anti-Imperialist League
Horatio Alger
35. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Bull Moose Party
Antietam
Committee to Defend America First
36. 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.
George Bush
Civil Works Administration
Anti-Imperialist League
Sedition Amendment
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
Helsinki Accords
Atomic Energy Commission
Dynamic conservatism
Lend-Lease Act
38. 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
Henry David Thoreau
CIA
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Triangular Trade
39. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Battle of the Bulge
Samuel Adams
40. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Age of Reason
Atomic Energy Commission
Jimmy Carter
41. 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
Peace Corps
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Anti-Imperialist League
42. 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
John Quincy Adams
Atlantic Charter
Leif Ericson
John Cabot
43. 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.
Allies
Tripartite Pact
Civil Works Administration
Jimmy Carter
44. Founded on the premise that the "perfect" human society could be achieved through genetic tinkering. Popularized during the Progressive Era - writers on this subject often used this theory to justify a supremacist white Protestant ideology - which ad
Mercantilism
Eugenics
The Beats
Deists
45. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Axis powers
Treaty of Ghent
Anti-federalists
46. 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."
John Adams
Stokely Carmichael
Jane Addams
Boston Massacre
47. 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
Eugenics
George Bush
Jimmy Carter
Albany Plan
48. 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
John Adams
Jacques Cartier
Mercantilism
Salutary neglect
49. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Tippecanoe
John Adams
50. 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
Boris Yeltsin
John Cabot
Boston Tea Party
Alien and Sedition Acts