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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Anti-Saloon League
Earl Warren
AAA
2. 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.
AFL
John Steinbeck
Eugenics
A Century of Dishonor
3. 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.
Samuel Adams
Anti-federalists
Jacques Cartier
Black Power
4. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
AFL
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lend-Lease Act
5. 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."
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hartford Convention
Bank of the United States
6. 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
The Awakening
Mikhail Gorbachev
Detente
National Origins Act
7. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Boston Tea Party
The Feminine Mystique
8. 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.
Great Society
Northwest Ordinance
Black Power
Black Thursday
9. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Horatio Alger
Ross Perot
Inflation
Civil Rights Act
10. Leader of a group of senators known as "reservationists" during the 1919 debate over the League of Nations. He and his followers supported US membership in the League only if major revisions were made to the covenant. President Wilson - however - ref
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bootleggers
The Rosenbergs
John Cabot
11. 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
Leif Ericson
The Feminine Mystique
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Inflation
12. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
Checks and balances
Camp David Accords
Eugenics
Smith-Connolly Act
13. Passed in 1924. Established maximum quotas for immigration into the US. This law severely restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe - and excluded Asians entirely.
Articles of Confederation
National Origins Act
John Cabot
Samuel de Champlain
14. Conducted during the summer and fall of 1940. In preparation for an amphibious assault - Germans launched airstrikes on London. Hitlers hoped the continuous bombing would destroy British industry and hurt morale - but the British successfully avoided
Berlin Blockade
Battle of Britain
The Awakening
Andrew Carnegie
15. 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
Cash-and-carry
Battle of the Bulge
John C. Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau
16. The popular name for the Kansas Territory in 1856 after abolitionist John Brown led a massacre at a pro-slavery camp - setting off waves of violence. Brown's massacre was in protest to the recent establishment of Kansas as a slave state. Pro-slavery
Inflation
New Look
A Century of Dishonor
Bleeding Kansas
17. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Specie Circular
Jay's Treaty
Jane Addams
The Beats
18. 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
Corrupt bargain
Brown v Board of Ed
John Steinbeck
Civil Rights Act
19. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Nuremburg Trials
John Quincy Adams
Samuel de Champlain
Iran-Contra affair
20. 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.
Henry Clay
James Buchanan
Boris Yeltsin
Central Powers
21. 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 -
Saddam Hussein
Roger Williams
Alger Hiss
Great Society
22. 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.
Detente
Cash-and-carry
Bay of Pigs
Sedition Amendment
23. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
CCC
Anti-Saloon League
Trust
Walt Whitman
24. 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
Roger Williams
Detente
House Un-American Activities Committee
American Civil Liberties Union
25. 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
Henry Hudson
Atomic Energy Commission
Tippecanoe
Gettysburg
26. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
William Randolph Hearst
Anti-federalists
Annapolis Convention
27. 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.
Puritans
Tiananmen Sqaure
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Northwest Ordinance
28. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
John C. Calhoun
Treaty of Greenville
Albany Plan
Susan B. Anthony
29. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Jimmy Carter
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Boxer Rebellion
30. 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
Berlin Blockade
Bank veto
Jacques Cartier
31. 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
Palmer Raids
John Steinbeck
American System
Edgar Allen Poe
32. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Alger Hiss
Bootleggers
George Bush
John C. Calhoun
33. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Jimmy Carter
Gulf War
William Jennings Bryan
34. 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.
National Origins Act
Samuel Adams
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Black codes
35. 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.
Jacques Cartier
Berlin Wall
Economic Opportunity Act
Smith-Connolly Act
36. 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.
Bootleggers
Economic Opportunity Act
Ross Perot
Jay's Treaty
37. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Civil Works Administration
Tripartite Pact
Eugenics
38. A meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 - in which the New England-based party enumerated its complaints against the ruling Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists - already losing power steadily - hoped that antiwar sentiment w
Hartford Convention
Ross Perot
Civil Works Administration
Popular Front
39. 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
Albany Plan
National Origins Act
Atlantic Charter
James Buchanan
40. 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
Anti-Saloon League
H. L. Mencken
Cash-and-carry
Great Society
41. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
William Randolph Hearst
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
42. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
John Brown
Bank of the United States
Boris Yeltsin
Gettysburg
43. 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
Reaganomics
Camp David Accords
Civil Works Administration
Eugenics
44. Formed in the absence of support form the British crown - these companies accrued funding for colonization through the sale of public stock. They dominated English colonization throughout the seventeenth century.
Sedition Amendment
Joint-stock companies
Berlin Blockade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. 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
Boxer Rebellion
William Randolph Hearst
Bleeding Kansas
Checks and balances
46. 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
Allies
Black codes
Bull Moose Party
Edgar Allen Poe
47. 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
Pendleton Act
Carpetbaggers
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Berlin Blockade
48. 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
Boston Massacre
Civil Works Administration
Gettysburg
The Age of Reason
49. 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
Trust
Gettysburg
Battle of Britain
50. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Anti-federalists
Samuel Adams
Treaty of Greenville