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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Alger Hiss
Chinese Exclusion Act
First Great Awakening
Allies
2. 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
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bay of Pigs
3. 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
Quasi-war
Bull Moose Party
Jacques Cartier
John Quincy Adams
4. 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
Black Power
Lost generation
Big stick diplomacy
Battle of the Bulge
5. 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.
Black codes
Susan B. Anthony
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Samuel Adams
6. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Winston Churchill
Bill of Rights
Samuel Adams
Puritans
7. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Walt Whitman
Camp meetings
Mikhail Gorbachev
8. 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.
Ernest Hemingway
Taft-Hartley Act
Andrew Carnegie
National Origins Act
9. 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."
Triangular Trade
Stokely Carmichael
James Fenimore Cooper
H. L. Mencken
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
Bull Moose Party
Mutual Assured Destruction
Bank veto
Carpetbaggers
11. A prominent transcendentalist writer. Two of his most famous writings are Civil Disobediance (1849) and Walden (1854). He advocatd living life according to one's conscience - removed from materialism and repressive social codes.
Henry David Thoreau
The Beats
Dynamic conservatism
The Feminine Mystique
12. 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.
Bank of the United States
Bill of Rights
Helsinki Accords
Pendleton Act
13. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
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The Awakening
Bootleggers
Eugenics
14. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Boxer Rebellion
Quasi-war
Detente
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15. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Henry Cabot Lodge
James Fenimore Cooper
Tiananmen Sqaure
16. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Palmer Raids
Atomic Energy Commission
Roger Williams
Black codes
17. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Mercantilism
Gettysburg
Central Powers
18. 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
H. L. Mencken
Albany Plan
Puritans
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19. 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
Civil Works Administration
Central Powers
Taft-Hartley Act
Bill of Rights
20. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
The Age of Reason
George Bush
Shoot-on-sight order
21. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Eugenics
Joint-stock companies
To Secure These Rights
Mikhail Gorbachev
22. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Boston Massacre
Allies
Taft-Hartley Act
23. 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
Bank of the United States
H. L. Mencken
Boxer Rebellion
Bootleggers
24. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Jimmy Carter
Leif Ericson
Henry Hudson
25. The alleged leader of a group of Vikings who sailed to the eastern coast of Canada and attempted - unsuccessfully - to colonize the area around the year 1000- nearly 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Triangular Trade
Earl Warren
Leif Ericson
26. 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'
Gulf War
Mikhail Gorbachev
Committee to Defend America First
Popular Front
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
John C. Calhoun
The Age of Reason
To Secure These Rights
Treaty of San Lorenzo
28. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
To Secure These Rights
Dynamic conservatism
Saddam Hussein
House Un-American Activities Committee
29. 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
Earl Warren
Bill of Rights
Gettysburg
Gulf War
30. 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
Bill of Rights
American System
Treaty of Ghent
Berlin Blockade
31. 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
AFL
John Brown
Antietam
Jane Addams
32. 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.
J. Edgar Hoover
Fidel Castro
Bill of Rights
Horatio Alger
33. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Iran-Contra affair
Big stick diplomacy
Anti-Imperialist League
34. 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.
Earl Warren
New Look
Sedition Amendment
Walt Whitman
35. 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.
Allies
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Treaty of Greenville
Civil Works Administration
36. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Students for a Democratic Society
Smith Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Peace Corps
37. 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.
The Rosenbergs
Deists
Detente
CIA
38. 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.
The Beats
Black Thursday
Triangular Trade
Allies
39. 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
Peace Corps
John Brown
Horatio Alger
Henry Clay
40. 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.
Anti-Imperialist League
Assembly line
Bleeding Kansas
CCC
41. 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
Detente
American Civil Liberties Union
Andrew Carnegie
Dynamic conservatism
42. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Saddam Hussein
Smith-Connolly Act
Baby boom
The Age of Reason
43. 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
Boston Massacre
Horatio Alger
Inflation
The Rosenbergs
44. 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.
Black codes
Samuel Adams
Puritans
Winston Churchill
45. 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.
CIA
Allies
James Fenimore Cooper
Antietam
46. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ross Perot
J. Edgar Hoover
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
47. 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.
Jimmy Carter
John Brown
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Carpetbaggers
48. Ronald Reagan's economic philosophy which held that a capitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive. Reagan believed that the prosperity of the rich upper class would "trickle down" to the poor.
John Adams
Tripartite Pact
Black Panthers
Reaganomics
49. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Dynamic conservatism
Henry Cabot Lodge
Great Society
50. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
John Steinbeck
Bacon's Rebellion
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