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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Articles of Confederation
Anti-Saloon League
Boxer Rebellion
Detente
2. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Annapolis Convention
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gettysburg
House Un-American Activities Committee
3. 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
John Steinbeck
Bootleggers
Inflation
Big stick diplomacy
4. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Economic Opportunity Act
Berlin Blockade
Bay of Pigs
5. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Horatio Alger
John Brown
6. 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.
Ross Perot
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
7. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Assembly line
Samuel de Champlain
The Feminine Mystique
First Great Awakening
8. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
James Fenimore Cooper
Students for a Democratic Society
Bank of the United States
John Brown
9. 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.
Puritans
Black codes
Ernest Hemingway
Jimmy Carter
10. 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
Jacques Cartier
Axis powers
CIA
Battle of the Bulge
11. 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
Gag rule
Assembly line
Henry Cabot Lodge
AFL
12. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Jay's Treaty
Checks and balances
Boston Tea Party
13. 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
Bootleggers
New Look
Palmer Raids
14. 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
Checks and balances
House Un-American Activities Committee
The Rosenbergs
Atlantic Charter
15. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Articles of Confederation
Anti-federalists
Detente
16. 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'
Boston Massacre
Berlin Blockade
Gulf War
Jimmy Carter
17. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism - these people believed that God - like a celestial clockmaker - had created a perfect universe and then stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws.
Mercantilism
Deists
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bootleggers
18. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Great Society
Henry Hudson
Helsinki Accords
19. 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
Nuremburg Trials
A Century of Dishonor
Corrupt bargain
Gag rule
20. 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
Helsinki Accords
Lend-Lease Act
American System
Gag rule
21. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Lost generation
Chinese Exclusion Act
Saddam Hussein
John Quincy Adams
22. 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
George Bush
The Age of Reason
Lost generation
Nuremburg Trials
23. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Battle of the Bulge
Ernest Hemingway
J. Edgar Hoover
24. 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-federalists
Cuban Missile Crisis
Great Society
Berlin Blockade
25. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were charged with murder in Massachusetts in 1920 and sentenced to death. The case against them was circumstantial and poorly argued - although evidence now suggests that they were in fact guilty. It was significant -
Alger Hiss
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Henry Clay
Battle of the Bulge
26. 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
George Bush
Students for a Democratic Society
Earl Warren
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
27. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Dynamic conservatism
Carpetbaggers
Mutual Assured Destruction
28. 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
Bay of Pigs
Henry David Thoreau
Bull Moose Party
Pendleton Act
29. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Anti-Saloon League
Nuremburg Trials
Camp David Accords
30. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Antietam
Annapolis Convention
Leif Ericson
31. 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.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Trust
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bill of Rights
32. 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
Horatio Alger
Specie Circular
Dynamic conservatism
American System
33. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Annapolis Convention
Battle of the Bulge
Gulf War
Susan B. Anthony
34. 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
John Steinbeck
John Quincy Adams
Jay's Treaty
Brown v Board of Ed
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
Trust
Eugenics
John Quincy Adams
Great Society
36. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
Henry David Thoreau
J. Robert Oppenheimer
James Buchanan
37. 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
Cash-and-carry
The Age of Reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson
AFL
38. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horatio Alger
Northwest Ordinance
Andrew Carnegie
39. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Trust
George Bush
John Steinbeck
40. 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
Bay of Pigs
First Great Awakening
John Quincy Adams
Alien and Sedition Acts
41. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Sedition Amendment
Antietam
Fidel Castro
42. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Brown v Board of Ed
American Civil Liberties Union
43. 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
Central Powers
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Gettysburg
The Awakening
44. 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.
Walt Whitman
John Brown
John Adams
CCC
45. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Annapolis Convention
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Hartford Convention
46. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Brown v Board of Ed
Boris Yeltsin
American System
47. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
The Rosenbergs
Civil Works Administration
Saddam Hussein
Reaganomics
48. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
Bill of Rights
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bank of the United States
John Quincy Adams
49. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Walt Whitman
House Un-American Activities Committee
Samuel de Champlain
Camp meetings
50. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
American Civil Liberties Union
Berlin Wall
Battle of the Bulge