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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. The centerpiece of a congressional effort to restrict union activity. The act - passed in 1947 - banned certain union practices and allowed the president to call for an eighty-day cooling off period to delay strikes thought to pose risks to national
Jacques Cartier
Inflation
Detente
Taft-Hartley Act
2. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Boxer Rebellion
Helsinki Accords
John Adams
3. 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
Walt Whitman
Hartford Convention
Mikhail Gorbachev
Carpetbaggers
4. 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.
Bootleggers
Samuel Adams
Anti-federalists
Treaty of San Lorenzo
5. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Ross Perot
Walt Whitman
John Cabot
6. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Northwest Ordinance
The Beats
Baby boom
CCC
7. 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.
Jimmy Carter
Mutual Assured Destruction
Tippecanoe
Edgar Allen Poe
8. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
Battle of Britain
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lost generation
Detente
9. 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.
Henry Clay
American System
Saddam Hussein
Specie Circular
10. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Beats
Henry Hudson
James Fenimore Cooper
11. A conglomerate of businesses that tends to reduce market competition. During the Industrial Age - many entrepreneurs consolidated their businesses into these in order to gain control of the market and amass great profit - often at the expense of poor
Trust
Treaty of Ghent
Boxer Rebellion
Treaty of San Lorenzo
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
Battle of the Bulge
Puritans
John C. Calhoun
George Bush
13. 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
Albany Plan
Saddam Hussein
Articles of Confederation
William Randolph Hearst
14. 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
Carpetbaggers
National Origins Act
Mercantilism
Cuban Missile Crisis
15. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Henry Hudson
Taft-Hartley Act
Axis powers
Roger Williams
16. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Alien and Sedition Acts
Berlin Blockade
Lost generation
17. 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 Brown
Sedition Amendment
Jacques Cartier
AFL
18. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Black Thursday
Bay of Pigs
Bootleggers
H. L. Mencken
19. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Berlin Wall
House Un-American Activities Committee
New Look
Corrupt bargain
20. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Samuel de Champlain
Articles of Confederation
Saddam Hussein
21. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Edgar Allen Poe
Smith Act
A Century of Dishonor
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.
Edgar Allen Poe
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Helsinki Accords
John Cabot
23. 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
Camp David Accords
Roger Williams
Jane Addams
New Look
24. 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
Walt Whitman
John C. Calhoun
Susan B. Anthony
25. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
AFL
Bill of Rights
Bleeding Kansas
26. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Boston Massacre
AAA
Inflation
National Origins Act
27. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Students for a Democratic Society
Baby boom
The Feminine Mystique
28. 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.
Antietam
Brown v Board of Ed
J. Edgar Hoover
Black codes
29. 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.
Bill of Rights
Ross Perot
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Mercantilism
30. Lyndon B. Johnson's program for domestic policy. It aimed to achieve racial equality - end poverty - and improve health-care. Johnson pushed a number of laws through Congress early in this presidency - but the plan failed to materialize fully - as th
Great Society
Bill of Rights
John Adams
Helsinki Accords
31. 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.
Triangular Trade
CIA
The Awakening
Alien and Sedition Acts
32. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Walt Whitman
Corrupt bargain
Chinese Exclusion Act
33. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Checks and balances
Taft-Hartley Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
34. 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.
Great Society
Bank veto
The Awakening
Cash-and-carry
35. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Earl Warren
Mutual Assured Destruction
36. 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.
Horatio Alger
J. Edgar Hoover
Ross Perot
Axis powers
37. 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."
New Look
Mutual Assured Destruction
Stokely Carmichael
Cuban Missile Crisis
38. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andrew Carnegie
J. Edgar Hoover
Chinese Exclusion Act
39. 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
Black Thursday
Missouri Compromise
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Deists
40. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Pendleton Act
Central Powers
Bank of the United States
41. 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).
Triangular Trade
The Feminine Mystique
Atlantic Charter
Edgar Allen Poe
42. 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.
Pendleton Act
Atlantic Charter
Deists
H. L. Mencken
43. 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
Anti-federalists
Mercantilism
Helsinki Accords
Shoot-on-sight order
44. 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.
Black Power
William Jennings Bryan
Assembly line
Committee to Defend America First
45. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Students for a Democratic Society
Fidel Castro
Lend-Lease Act
46. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Treaty of San Lorenzo
House Un-American Activities Committee
47. 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
Berlin Wall
Susan B. Anthony
Triangular Trade
Battle of Britain
48. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Pendleton Act
Corrupt bargain
Anti-Imperialist League
49. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
The Awakening
George Bush
Sedition Amendment
AAA
50. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
Tiananmen Sqaure
Ernest Hemingway
William Randolph Hearst
Hartford Convention