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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Smith Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bill of Rights
Cash-and-carry
2. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Ross Perot
CCC
Boston Massacre
The Feminine Mystique
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.
Earl Warren
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Samuel Adams
Pendleton Act
4. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
National Origins Act
Bank of the United States
Horatio Alger
John Brown
5. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
James Buchanan
Bleeding Kansas
CCC
6. 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
Checks and balances
House Un-American Activities Committee
CIA
Kansas-Nebraska Act
7. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allies
Henry David Thoreau
8. 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
American System
Hartford Convention
Saddam Hussein
CIA
9. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Bacon's Rebellion
Inflation
Battle of Britain
Mutual Assured Destruction
10. 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
Lend-Lease Act
AFL
John Brown
Committee to Defend America First
11. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Mercantilism
J. Edgar Hoover
Camp meetings
12. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Central Powers
John Steinbeck
Camp David Accords
Walt Whitman
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.
James Buchanan
National Origins Act
Boston Massacre
John Cabot
14. 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.
Battle of Britain
Bill of Rights
Civil Works Administration
Winston Churchill
15. 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
Civil Works Administration
William Jennings Bryan
Black Thursday
Horatio Alger
16. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Smith Act
John Quincy Adams
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
17. Written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. Exposed the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT. Carson's book helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among the American people.
New Look
Silent Spring
The Age of Reason
Mikhail Gorbachev
18. 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
Mercantilism
Committee to Defend America First
Atomic Energy Commission
Cuban Missile Crisis
19. 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
John Brown
Missouri Compromise
Civil Works Administration
American Civil Liberties Union
20. 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
Atlantic Charter
Nuremburg Trials
Black Panthers
John Brown
21. 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
Winston Churchill
Lend-Lease Act
Bull Moose Party
Axis powers
22. 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
Assembly line
Committee to Defend America First
Bleeding Kansas
Gag rule
23. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Boxer Rebellion
Bootleggers
First Great Awakening
24. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
Tippecanoe
Tripartite Pact
AAA
Roger Williams
25. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
American Civil Liberties Union
James Fenimore Cooper
Specie Circular
26. 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
Henry Clay
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Joint-stock companies
Battle of the Bulge
27. 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
Earl Warren
Lend-Lease Act
Henry Hudson
Henry Cabot Lodge
28. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black codes
The Age of Reason
Henry Clay
29. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
Carpetbaggers
Dynamic conservatism
House Un-American Activities Committee
The Beats
30. 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.
Central Powers
Bank veto
Leif Ericson
The Beats
31. 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
Axis powers
Samuel Adams
AFL
Battle of Britain
32. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Gettysburg
Mikhail Gorbachev
Shoot-on-sight order
33. 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.
John Cabot
Assembly line
Ross Perot
Articles of Confederation
34. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Bleeding Kansas
Hartford Convention
Pendleton Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
35. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
36. 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
Great Society
John Brown
AFL
Economic Opportunity Act
37. An important political figure during the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He engineered and championed the American System - a program aimed at economic self-sufficiency for the nation. As speaker of the house during Monroe's term in offi
John Quincy Adams
George Bush
Henry Clay
Silent Spring
38. 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.
Peace Corps
Henry Hudson
James Buchanan
Reaganomics
39. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Black Thursday
John Brown
AAA
40. 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.
Brown v Board of Ed
Hartford Convention
Atlantic Charter
Helsinki Accords
41. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
Jane Addams
Antietam
Students for a Democratic Society
Trust
42. 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.
Joint-stock companies
James Buchanan
The Awakening
Camp David Accords
43. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
New Look
Treaty of Greenville
Nuremburg Trials
Chinese Exclusion Act
44. 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
Mercantilism
Battle of the Bulge
Gulf War
Bacon's Rebellion
45. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Gulf War
Students for a Democratic Society
Bill of Rights
J. Robert Oppenheimer
46. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Berlin Wall
Checks and balances
Central Powers
William Jennings Bryan
47. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Triangular Trade
Great Society
Atlantic Charter
48. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Treaty of San Lorenzo
James Fenimore Cooper
Horatio Alger
49. 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
Horatio Alger
Reaganomics
Winston Churchill
Mikhail Gorbachev
50. 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."
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Puritans
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
H. L. Mencken