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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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-Saloon League
Trust
Boris Yeltsin
Anti-federalists
2. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
Camp David Accords
Berlin Blockade
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Allies
3. 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
Mercantilism
Iran-Contra affair
Tripartite Pact
Ernest Hemingway
4. 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.
Axis powers
Battle of Britain
Sedition Amendment
Bank of the United States
5. 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
Bull Moose Party
J. Edgar Hoover
Axis powers
6. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Cabot
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jay's Treaty
Black codes
7. 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.
National Origins Act
Taft-Hartley Act
John Quincy Adams
A Century of Dishonor
8. 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.
Peace Corps
Jay's Treaty
Specie Circular
Northwest Ordinance
9. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Brown v Board of Ed
Alien and Sedition Acts
Nuremburg Trials
10. 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
Fidel Castro
Students for a Democratic Society
Triangular Trade
Carpetbaggers
11. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Susan B. Anthony
Economic Opportunity Act
Antietam
12. Prime minister of England from 1940 to 1945. He was known for his inspirational speeches and zealous pursuit of war victory. Together he - FDR - and Stalin mapped out the post-war world order as the "Big Three." In 1946 - he coined the term "iron cur
Axis powers
Winston Churchill
Pendleton Act
Battle of Britain
13. 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
Assembly line
John Brown
Pendleton Act
The Feminine Mystique
14. 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
Berlin Wall
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Gettysburg
AFL
15. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Allies
John Cabot
AAA
Students for a Democratic Society
16. 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
Anti-Saloon League
New Look
Ernest Hemingway
Boris Yeltsin
17. 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.
To Secure These Rights
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Black codes
Gettysburg
18. 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
Boston Tea Party
Atomic Energy Commission
Annapolis Convention
19. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
The Feminine Mystique
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
House Un-American Activities Committee
20. 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
Bill of Rights
John Brown
John Adams
Albany Plan
21. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Anti-Saloon League
Ernest Hemingway
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Fidel Castro
22. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Civil Liberties Union
Civil Rights Act
23. 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.
Bank veto
Detente
Quasi-war
Jay's Treaty
24. 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
John C. Calhoun
Shoot-on-sight order
William Jennings Bryan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
25. 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.
Axis powers
Treaty of Ghent
The Feminine Mystique
Boston Tea Party
26. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Atomic Energy Commission
Eugenics
Committee to Defend America First
27. Written by Kate Chopin in 1899. This novel portrays a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man - and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. It
Big stick diplomacy
Carpetbaggers
The Awakening
Allies
28. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Popular Front
Brown v Board of Ed
Baby boom
Central Powers
29. 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
Bootleggers
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bleeding Kansas
New Look
30. 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.
Gag rule
Andrew Carnegie
Tiananmen Sqaure
Atlantic Charter
31. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
A Century of Dishonor
Black Panthers
John Steinbeck
32. 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
Nuremburg Trials
A Century of Dishonor
Battle of the Bulge
Berlin Wall
33. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Camp meetings
Berlin Wall
34. 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
Ross Perot
Boxer Rebellion
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Assembly line
35. 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
Eugenics
The Age of Reason
Saddam Hussein
Battle of Britain
36. 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.
Horatio Alger
Civil Works Administration
Gettysburg
Lend-Lease Act
37. 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
Bill of Rights
Missouri Compromise
Bacon's Rebellion
The Age of Reason
38. 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
Lost generation
Henry Cabot Lodge
J. Edgar Hoover
CCC
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
Detente
AFL
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Allies
40. 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
Ernest Hemingway
The Beats
James Fenimore Cooper
Tripartite Pact
41. 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
H. L. Mencken
Edgar Allen Poe
Alger Hiss
Gag rule
42. Passed in March 1941. Allowed the president to lend or lease supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the US -" such as Britain - and was a key move in support ot the Allied cause before the US formally entered World War II. Was extende
Boston Tea Party
Lend-Lease Act
The Age of Reason
Gulf War
43. 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
Ross Perot
Black Panthers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Mikhail Gorbachev
44. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
AAA
Albany Plan
George Bush
45. 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
Lend-Lease Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
Axis powers
Corrupt bargain
46. 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.
Battle of Britain
Triangular Trade
Black Thursday
Camp meetings
47. 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
Gulf War
Checks and balances
H. L. Mencken
Treaty of Ghent
48. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Smith-Connolly Act
John Brown
Brown v Board of Ed
CCC
49. 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
Triangular Trade
Mikhail Gorbachev
J. Robert Oppenheimer
George Bush
50. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Nuremburg Trials
Samuel de Champlain
Andrew Carnegie
Mikhail Gorbachev
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