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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
H. L. Mencken
Inflation
Nuremburg Trials
Bacon's Rebellion
2. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Mercantilism
Anti-Imperialist League
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
3. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Annapolis Convention
Henry Clay
J. Robert Oppenheimer
4. 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
Gulf War
Palmer Raids
Cash-and-carry
Ross Perot
5. 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.
Detente
Bleeding Kansas
Annapolis Convention
Deists
6. 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
The Beats
Trust
Tippecanoe
Black Panthers
7. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
John Steinbeck
The Awakening
Berlin Blockade
8. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Eugenics
Carpetbaggers
Stokely Carmichael
9. 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.
AAA
Bank veto
Reaganomics
Antietam
10. 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.
Pendleton Act
John C. Calhoun
Articles of Confederation
Boxer Rebellion
11. 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.
Samuel Adams
Camp David Accords
Mercantilism
Great Society
12. 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
Salutary neglect
First Great Awakening
Trust
Camp David Accords
13. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Detente
Silent Spring
Central Powers
14. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Berlin Wall
Shoot-on-sight order
Great Society
Jane Addams
15. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
John Cabot
The Awakening
Boston Massacre
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
16. 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.
John Cabot
Andrew Carnegie
Tippecanoe
American System
17. 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
American System
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Ernest Hemingway
18. 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.
Berlin Blockade
Samuel Adams
Iran-Contra affair
Jacques Cartier
19. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
Specie Circular
Mercantilism
Axis powers
First Great Awakening
20. 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
Boston Tea Party
American Civil Liberties Union
Anti-Imperialist League
Gulf War
21. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Palmer Raids
Anti-Imperialist League
Students for a Democratic Society
22. Adopted in 1777 during the Revolutionary War. They established the first limited central government of the US - reserving most powers for the individual states. However they didn't grant enough federal power to manage the country's budget or maintain
Lost generation
Tippecanoe
Articles of Confederation
Central Powers
23. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
First Great Awakening
To Secure These Rights
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hartford Convention
24. 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.
Samuel Adams
Tippecanoe
Stokely Carmichael
Andrew Carnegie
25. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Lend-Lease Act
Berlin Wall
Andrew Carnegie
26. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Jimmy Carter
Walt Whitman
Mutual Assured Destruction
27. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
John Adams
Boris Yeltsin
Hartford Convention
28. 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.
Gettysburg
The Age of Reason
James Buchanan
Treaty of Ghent
29. 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
Reaganomics
The Age of Reason
Boston Tea Party
John Quincy Adams
30. 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.
Smith Act
Mutual Assured Destruction
Henry Hudson
Bootleggers
31. 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.
Battle of Britain
Bank veto
Tiananmen Sqaure
Henry Hudson
32. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Great Society
Helsinki Accords
John Steinbeck
33. 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.
George Bush
CIA
Chinese Exclusion Act
Smith Act
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.
John Brown
Cash-and-carry
John Steinbeck
Black codes
35. 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
Antietam
Brown v Board of Ed
Inflation
36. 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
Iran-Contra affair
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ross Perot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Andrew Carnegie
Anti-Imperialist League
Sedition Amendment
38. 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
Eugenics
William Randolph Hearst
Ernest Hemingway
Berlin Wall
39. 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
Boston Massacre
Roger Williams
Triangular Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. 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
Lost generation
Taft-Hartley Act
Alger Hiss
Edgar Allen Poe
41. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel Adams
Baby boom
Lost generation
42. Coined by Stokely Carmichael - and adopted by Malcolm X - the Black Panthers - and other civil rights groups. The term embodied the fight against oppression and the value of ethnic heritage.
Black Power
Battle of the Bulge
Missouri Compromise
Atlantic Charter
43. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Steinbeck
Jane Addams
Hartford Convention
J. Robert Oppenheimer
44. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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45. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Missouri Compromise
Black codes
Lost generation
46. 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.
Silent Spring
Reaganomics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fidel Castro
47. 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
The Rosenbergs
Nuremburg Trials
Ross Perot
Quasi-war
48. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Bleeding Kansas
Chinese Exclusion Act
Bay of Pigs
Civil Rights Act
49. 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.
Bank veto
Saddam Hussein
Berlin Wall
Treaty of Greenville
50. 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
Sedition Amendment
Samuel Adams
Civil Rights Act
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