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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Battle of Britain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walt Whitman
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
2. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lost generation
The Awakening
AFL
3. 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.
Helsinki Accords
House Un-American Activities Committee
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Hudson
4. 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
Boston Tea Party
Winston Churchill
Atomic Energy Commission
Jay's Treaty
5. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf War
National Origins Act
Hartford Convention
6. 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
Jane Addams
Iran-Contra affair
Trust
Assembly line
7. 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.
Taft-Hartley Act
James Buchanan
Annapolis Convention
James Fenimore Cooper
8. 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
Triangular Trade
Great Society
CIA
Reaganomics
9. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gettysburg
Jane Addams
Albany Plan
10. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Treaty of Ghent
A Century of Dishonor
Alien and Sedition Acts
11. America's second president - served from 1797 to 1801. A federalist - he supported a powerful centralized government. His most notable actions in office were the undertakng of the quasi-war with France and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Adams
Big stick diplomacy
American Civil Liberties Union
Civil Works Administration
12. 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
Gulf War
Nuremburg Trials
Helsinki Accords
Leif Ericson
13. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Camp David Accords
Joint-stock companies
Bay of Pigs
14. 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
Axis powers
Gag rule
Berlin Blockade
Fidel Castro
15. 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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16. 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
Black Thursday
Berlin Wall
Jane Addams
Tripartite Pact
17. 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
First Great Awakening
Edgar Allen Poe
Ross Perot
Specie Circular
18. 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
Gag rule
John C. Calhoun
Sedition Amendment
Bull Moose Party
19. 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
AAA
Annapolis Convention
Peace Corps
The Rosenbergs
20. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Berlin Wall
The Rosenbergs
21. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Brown v Board of Ed
Mikhail Gorbachev
Articles of Confederation
22. 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."
Stokely Carmichael
Saddam Hussein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hartford Convention
23. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Leif Ericson
Black codes
To Secure These Rights
John Cabot
24. 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
Bootleggers
Palmer Raids
The Age of Reason
Silent Spring
25. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Shoot-on-sight order
Pendleton Act
Tiananmen Sqaure
Peace Corps
26. 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
Axis powers
Alger Hiss
Dynamic conservatism
Ross Perot
27. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Salutary neglect
The Feminine Mystique
The Age of Reason
Treaty of Ghent
28. 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.
American System
Henry David Thoreau
Camp meetings
John C. Calhoun
29. 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.
National Origins Act
Tripartite Pact
Sedition Amendment
George Bush
30. 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
The Rosenbergs
Boris Yeltsin
Henry Clay
Mikhail Gorbachev
31. 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."
Central Powers
H. L. Mencken
Atomic Energy Commission
Bacon's Rebellion
32. 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
New Look
Smith-Connolly Act
Antietam
33. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Anti-Imperialist League
Ernest Hemingway
Baby boom
Peace Corps
34. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Battle of Britain
35. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Works Administration
John Cabot
36. 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
The Rosenbergs
Boxer Rebellion
Committee to Defend America First
Andrew Carnegie
37. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
Henry Cabot Lodge
Battle of the Bulge
Tripartite Pact
First Great Awakening
38. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Fidel Castro
Henry Hudson
Gulf War
Shoot-on-sight order
39. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Silent Spring
John Steinbeck
Jimmy Carter
Peace Corps
40. 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 -
Alger Hiss
Treaty of Greenville
Jane Addams
Bank of the United States
41. 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.
Antietam
James Buchanan
Civil Rights Act
The Rosenbergs
42. 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.
Black Panthers
CCC
Anti-Imperialist League
The Beats
43. 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.
Black Panthers
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Axis powers
John Quincy Adams
44. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Bank of the United States
Walt Whitman
Gag rule
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
A Century of Dishonor
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jacques Cartier
Tripartite Pact
46. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. Edgar Hoover
Pendleton Act
47. 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
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Jay's Treaty
Cash-and-carry
48. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Gag rule
Samuel de Champlain
Brown v Board of Ed
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Smith-Connolly Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Boston Tea Party
50. 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.
Inflation
Boxer Rebellion
Economic Opportunity Act
Lend-Lease Act