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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Henry Hudson
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Civil Rights Act
Anti-Imperialist League
2. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Specie Circular
Battle of the Bulge
3. A moderate Democrat with support from both the North and South who served as president of the US from 1857 to 1861. He could not stem the tide of sectional conflict that eventually erupted into Civil War.
Smith-Connolly Act
Anti-Imperialist League
Boston Massacre
James Buchanan
4. Religious revivals on the frontier during the Second Great Awakening. Hundreds or even thousands of people- members of various dominations- met to hear speeches on repentance and sign hymns.
Camp meetings
Alger Hiss
Tripartite Pact
Salutary neglect
5. 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
Bank of the United States
Bull Moose Party
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bay of Pigs
6. 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.
Roger Williams
Reaganomics
Black codes
Alger Hiss
7. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Reaganomics
Battle of the Bulge
8. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Axis powers
Salutary neglect
9. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
The Feminine Mystique
Lost generation
Helsinki Accords
10. 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
American System
Anti-Imperialist League
Roger Williams
James Fenimore Cooper
11. 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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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
Black Panthers
National Origins Act
Silent Spring
13. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
George Bush
American Civil Liberties Union
John C. Calhoun
14. 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
Black Panthers
Boris Yeltsin
Assembly line
Committee to Defend America First
15. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Quasi-war
The Rosenbergs
Ross Perot
William Randolph Hearst
16. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Albany Plan
Jimmy Carter
Northwest Ordinance
Civil Rights Act
17. 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'
Gulf War
Atomic Energy Commission
The Beats
Black codes
18. 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.
Corrupt bargain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Articles of Confederation
Black Panthers
19. 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
Puritans
Atlantic Charter
Deists
The Feminine Mystique
20. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gettysburg
Fidel Castro
Carpetbaggers
21. 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
Cash-and-carry
Jay's Treaty
Specie Circular
Henry Hudson
22. 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
Battle of Britain
Dynamic conservatism
Salutary neglect
Bacon's Rebellion
23. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
National Origins Act
John Cabot
Black Power
J. Edgar Hoover
24. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Henry Hudson
Cash-and-carry
Alger Hiss
25. 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
Cash-and-carry
Big stick diplomacy
John Adams
Albany Plan
26. 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
Trust
Battle of Britain
Baby boom
27. 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
John Steinbeck
Gag rule
The Feminine Mystique
Bacon's Rebellion
28. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
Joint-stock companies
American System
Treaty of Ghent
29. 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
Salutary neglect
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Quasi-war
30. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Adams
Baby boom
Detente
John Steinbeck
31. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Smith-Connolly Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
New Look
32. 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
New Look
CCC
National Origins Act
Atomic Energy Commission
33. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Mercantilism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
James Buchanan
John Quincy Adams
34. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Peace Corps
Boston Massacre
Battle of Britain
Jane Addams
35. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
Tippecanoe
Shoot-on-sight order
Henry Clay
36. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Shoot-on-sight order
Committee to Defend America First
Henry Cabot Lodge
37. The largest battle of the Civil War. Widely considered to be the war's turning point - the battle marked the Union's first major victory in the East. The three-day campaign - from July 1 to 4 - 1863 - resulted in an unprecedented 51 -000 total casual
Northwest Ordinance
William Jennings Bryan
Detente
Gettysburg
38. 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
Checks and balances
Atomic Energy Commission
George Bush
Peace Corps
39. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Popular Front
Trust
Black codes
40. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
John Steinbeck
Ross Perot
Treaty of Greenville
Boston Massacre
41. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Atomic Energy Commission
Treaty of San Lorenzo
American Civil Liberties Union
42. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Boris Yeltsin
Treaty of San Lorenzo
James Buchanan
Andrew Carnegie
43. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
John Cabot
AFL
Samuel de Champlain
Antietam
44. 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.
Henry Clay
Articles of Confederation
Atomic Energy Commission
A Century of Dishonor
45. 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
New Look
Ernest Hemingway
The Awakening
Battle of Britain
46. 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
Civil Works Administration
Iran-Contra affair
John Brown
Berlin Wall
47. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Henry Clay
Kansas-Nebraska Act
48. 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
Battle of Britain
Corrupt bargain
Students for a Democratic Society
Tiananmen Sqaure
49. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Palmer Raids
Popular Front
William Randolph Hearst
Civil Works Administration
50. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Cabot
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