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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Works Administration
2. 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
Leif Ericson
Joint-stock companies
Big stick diplomacy
Battle of the Bulge
3. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Battle of the Bulge
John Steinbeck
Treaty of Greenville
4. 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.
Trust
Northwest Ordinance
Mikhail Gorbachev
Shoot-on-sight order
5. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Triangular Trade
Cash-and-carry
Northwest Ordinance
6. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Carpetbaggers
Berlin Blockade
Tippecanoe
7. 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
First Great Awakening
Ernest Hemingway
The Awakening
Smith Act
8. 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.
Mercantilism
Anti-federalists
Smith-Connolly Act
Boston Massacre
9. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Black Thursday
Treaty of Greenville
Chinese Exclusion Act
American Civil Liberties Union
10. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Leif Ericson
House Un-American Activities Committee
Detente
John Steinbeck
11. 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
Trust
Joint-stock companies
Bull Moose Party
The Rosenbergs
12. A protest against the 1773 Tea Act - which allowed Britain to use the profits from selling tea to pay the salaries of royal governers. In December 1773 - Samuel Adams gathered Boston residents and warned them of the consequences of the Tea Act. Follo
Bill of Rights
Chinese Exclusion Act
Earl Warren
Boston Tea Party
13. 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
Gulf War
Great Society
CIA
14. 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.
J. Edgar Hoover
American Civil Liberties Union
Tippecanoe
Henry Cabot Lodge
15. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
Palmer Raids
Battle of Britain
Smith Act
Nuremburg Trials
16. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Anti-Saloon League
Jimmy Carter
William Jennings Bryan
17. 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
The Beats
Salutary neglect
Jane Addams
Pendleton Act
18. 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.
Peace Corps
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earl Warren
Committee to Defend America First
19. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Specie Circular
Civil Rights Act
Economic Opportunity Act
Quasi-war
20. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Trust
Lost generation
Detente
21. 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
Earl Warren
Shoot-on-sight order
Hartford Convention
Checks and balances
22. 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
Samuel Adams
Cash-and-carry
New Look
23. An English explorer sponsered by the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 - he sailed up the river that now bears his name - nearly reaching present-day Albany. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.
Assembly line
Bill of Rights
Henry Hudson
Alger Hiss
24. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Big stick diplomacy
Alien and Sedition Acts
Antietam
25. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Silent Spring
Bootleggers
Inflation
Bay of Pigs
26. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Boris Yeltsin
To Secure These Rights
Andrew Carnegie
National Origins Act
27. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
The Age of Reason
John C. Calhoun
Nuremburg Trials
28. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Iran-Contra affair
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Central Powers
John Cabot
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.
Winston Churchill
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Horatio Alger
Bleeding Kansas
30. 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
Committee to Defend America First
CCC
Big stick diplomacy
Smith Act
31. 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
Sedition Amendment
Bull Moose Party
Treaty of Ghent
AAA
32. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Tippecanoe
National Origins Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
33. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Massacre
Tiananmen Sqaure
Leif Ericson
Black codes
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.
A Century of Dishonor
Lost generation
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bill of Rights
35. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mutual Assured Destruction
Boston Tea Party
Anti-federalists
36. 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
Antietam
Articles of Confederation
Students for a Democratic Society
Roger Williams
37. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Central Powers
Allies
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
38. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Works Administration
Silent Spring
39. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Inflation
William Jennings Bryan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Assembly line
40. 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.
Axis powers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Taft-Hartley Act
Atomic Energy Commission
41. Longtime government employee who - in 1948 - was accused by Time editor Whitaker Chambers of spying for the USSR. After a series of highly publicized hearings and trials - he was convicted of perjury in 1950 and sentenced to five years imprisonment -
John Quincy Adams
Dynamic conservatism
Alger Hiss
Horatio Alger
42. 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
Dynamic conservatism
The Feminine Mystique
Boston Tea Party
43. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Samuel Adams
Central Powers
Triangular Trade
44. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Reaganomics
Atomic Energy Commission
Jay's Treaty
45. 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."
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
H. L. Mencken
Boston Massacre
Bacon's Rebellion
46. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
John Quincy Adams
Black codes
Dynamic conservatism
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
Iran-Contra affair
Civil Works Administration
James Fenimore Cooper
John Steinbeck
48. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Black Thursday
Palmer Raids
New Look
49. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Henry Hudson
Treaty of Greenville
Gag rule
Inflation
50. 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
H. L. Mencken
Battle of the Bulge
Missouri Compromise
Lost generation