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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
The Rosenbergs
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Civil Works Administration
2. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Students for a Democratic Society
Specie Circular
3. 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.
Horatio Alger
Treaty of San Lorenzo
John Steinbeck
Black codes
4. 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."
H. L. Mencken
Anti-Saloon League
John Steinbeck
Boxer Rebellion
5. 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
Eugenics
William Randolph Hearst
Atomic Energy Commission
CCC
6. 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
Triangular Trade
Ross Perot
Checks and balances
Dynamic conservatism
7. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Peace Corps
Battle of Britain
Tripartite Pact
Henry Clay
8. 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
Gulf War
Alien and Sedition Acts
Berlin Wall
Smith-Connolly Act
9. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Jimmy Carter
Bay of Pigs
Baby boom
Jay's Treaty
10. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Anti-Saloon League
Palmer Raids
Quasi-war
American System
11. 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
John Brown
Joint-stock companies
American Civil Liberties Union
Mercantilism
12. 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
Berlin Wall
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Society
AFL
13. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Treaty of Ghent
Joint-stock companies
The Age of Reason
14. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Battle of the Bulge
Gulf War
Andrew Carnegie
15. 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
Reaganomics
Chinese Exclusion Act
Boris Yeltsin
Big stick diplomacy
16. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
The Age of Reason
Baby boom
Walt Whitman
Susan B. Anthony
17. 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
Inflation
Dynamic conservatism
Great Society
Saddam Hussein
18. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mikhail Gorbachev
John Steinbeck
American System
19. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Quasi-war
Gettysburg
Axis powers
Jay's Treaty
20. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Allies
Taft-Hartley Act
To Secure These Rights
21. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
The Awakening
John Steinbeck
Boston Tea Party
22. 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
American System
Civil Works Administration
Eugenics
Checks and balances
23. 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.
Fidel Castro
Eugenics
Reaganomics
Taft-Hartley Act
24. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Missouri Compromise
Anti-Saloon League
New Look
Popular Front
25. 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
The Awakening
National Origins Act
Deists
26. 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
Black codes
Inflation
Bank veto
William Jennings Bryan
27. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jane Addams
Carpetbaggers
Camp meetings
28. Written by Kate Chopin in 1899. This novel portrays a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man - and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. It
The Awakening
Henry David Thoreau
National Origins Act
Nuremburg Trials
29. 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
Winston Churchill
Anti-Saloon League
Tripartite Pact
Smith Act
30. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Dynamic conservatism
John Quincy Adams
Ernest Hemingway
31. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Popular Front
Leif Ericson
Tippecanoe
32. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
H. L. Mencken
Fidel Castro
Palmer Raids
Kansas-Nebraska Act
33. 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
Gettysburg
AFL
Shoot-on-sight order
34. 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
Gettysburg
Bacon's Rebellion
CCC
Iran-Contra affair
35. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Berlin Blockade
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Horatio Alger
J. Edgar Hoover
36. Religious revivals on the frontier during the Second Great Awakening. Hundreds or even thousands of people- members of various dominations- met to hear speeches on repentance and sign hymns.
Fidel Castro
Economic Opportunity Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Camp meetings
37. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
Reaganomics
Central Powers
Samuel Adams
George Bush
38. 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
Detente
Atomic Energy Commission
Taft-Hartley Act
Smith Act
39. 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.
Gag rule
Fidel Castro
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sedition Amendment
40. 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
Detente
Anti-federalists
Mikhail Gorbachev
41. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Steinbeck
Bank of the United States
Corrupt bargain
Sacco-Vanzetti case
42. 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.
Black Thursday
Committee to Defend America First
Bank veto
Puritans
43. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Missouri Compromise
Mercantilism
Pendleton Act
Big stick diplomacy
44. 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.
Bill of Rights
Inflation
Mutual Assured Destruction
Peace Corps
45. 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
Tippecanoe
Missouri Compromise
Gag rule
46. 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 -
Battle of the Bulge
Anti-Imperialist League
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Joint-stock companies
47. 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
John C. Calhoun
Gag rule
Cuban Missile Crisis
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
48. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Stokely Carmichael
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Popular Front
Smith-Connolly Act
49. 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
Carpetbaggers
Gettysburg
The Rosenbergs
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.
Economic Opportunity Act
Brown v Board of Ed
Stokely Carmichael
Palmer Raids