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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Ross Perot
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Big stick diplomacy
The Age of Reason
2. 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
Cash-and-carry
Mercantilism
Civil Works Administration
Jay's Treaty
3. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Quasi-war
Henry Hudson
Gulf War
Edgar Allen Poe
4. Led by future president William Henry Harrison - US forces defeated Shawnee forces in this battle in 1811. The US victory lessed the Native American threat in Ohio and Indiana.
Corrupt bargain
Fidel Castro
Bank of the United States
Tippecanoe
5. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Pendleton Act
Smith-Connolly Act
Atomic Energy Commission
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
The Awakening
Checks and balances
To Secure These Rights
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. 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.
Camp meetings
Hartford Convention
CIA
AFL
8. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black Panthers
Baby boom
John Brown
9. A fiction writer who gained popularity in the 1840s for his horrific tales. He published many famous stories - including "The Raven" (1844) and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
John Quincy Adams
Axis powers
Battle of the Bulge
Edgar Allen Poe
10. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
Samuel Adams
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Earl Warren
Boston Massacre
11. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
House Un-American Activities Committee
John C. Calhoun
Detente
12. 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 -
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Black Thursday
Alger Hiss
Samuel de Champlain
13. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Civil Works Administration
Missouri Compromise
Checks and balances
14. 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
Bootleggers
H. L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. 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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16. 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
Gag rule
Battle of Britain
The Rosenbergs
Smith-Connolly Act
17. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
James Buchanan
Taft-Hartley Act
Corrupt bargain
18. 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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black codes
Henry Hudson
Popular Front
19. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jacques Cartier
Anti-Imperialist League
20. 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
Boston Tea Party
Jimmy Carter
William Jennings Bryan
Specie Circular
21. The English government's policy of not enforcing certain trade laws it imposed upon the American colonies throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The purpose of this policy was largely to ensure the loyalty of the colonies in
Salutary neglect
Lost generation
Triangular Trade
American Civil Liberties Union
22. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Adams
Brown v Board of Ed
Stokely Carmichael
23. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Jane Addams
Joint-stock companies
Anti-Saloon League
Gag rule
24. 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.
Bay of Pigs
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Edgar Allen Poe
Smith-Connolly Act
25. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Fidel Castro
Saddam Hussein
Cash-and-carry
Quasi-war
26. Advocated isolationism and opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Committee members urged neutrality - claiming that the US could stand alone regardless of Hitler's advances in Europe.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Committee to Defend America First
Treaty of Ghent
27. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Black codes
Dynamic conservatism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Atlantic Charter
28. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Annapolis Convention
Boston Tea Party
John Quincy Adams
Samuel de Champlain
29. 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
New Look
Puritans
Committee to Defend America First
Henry Hudson
30. 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
Great Society
American Civil Liberties Union
Chinese Exclusion Act
Detente
31. 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
Pendleton Act
American Civil Liberties Union
Assembly line
32. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Students for a Democratic Society
Henry David Thoreau
To Secure These Rights
Boston Massacre
33. 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.
Samuel Adams
Deists
Pendleton Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
34. 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
AAA
To Secure These Rights
Black codes
Saddam Hussein
35. 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
Winston Churchill
J. Robert Oppenheimer
AFL
Missouri Compromise
36. 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
The Rosenbergs
Silent Spring
Treaty of San Lorenzo
37. 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
CIA
Albany Plan
Inflation
38. 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.
Big stick diplomacy
Joint-stock companies
Treaty of Ghent
Gettysburg
39. 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
Gettysburg
Henry David Thoreau
Black Thursday
Anti-Saloon League
40. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
National Origins Act
Allies
John Adams
41. 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
Boston Massacre
Checks and balances
Ernest Hemingway
Earl Warren
42. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Allies
Civil Rights Act
To Secure These Rights
Atomic Energy Commission
43. 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
Silent Spring
John C. Calhoun
Tripartite Pact
44. 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
Annapolis Convention
Berlin Blockade
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Bank of the United States
45. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Deists
To Secure These Rights
Bank veto
Northwest Ordinance
46. Passed in 1940. This act made it illegal to speak of - or advocate - overthrowing the US government. During the presidential campaign of 1948 - Truman demonstrated his aggressive stance against communism by prosecuting eleven leaders of the Communist
Northwest Ordinance
Henry Clay
Pendleton Act
Smith Act
47. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Henry Cabot Lodge
George Bush
Antietam
Chinese Exclusion Act
48. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Black codes
Smith-Connolly Act
Northwest Ordinance
49. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Iran-Contra affair
American Civil Liberties Union
Sacco-Vanzetti case
50. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Black codes
Walt Whitman
Henry Hudson