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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ernest Hemingway
Taft-Hartley Act
2. 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
Bootleggers
Silent Spring
Battle of the Bulge
The Beats
3. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemingway
Treaty of Ghent
4. 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
Gag rule
Hartford Convention
Cuban Missile Crisis
Students for a Democratic Society
5. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Puritans
National Origins Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Samuel de Champlain
6. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Popular Front
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Corrupt bargain
Bank of the United States
7. Delegates from five states met in Annapolis in September 1786 to discuss interstate commerce. However - discussions of weaknesses in the government led them to suggest to Congress a new convention to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Black Power
Annapolis Convention
Henry Cabot Lodge
Anti-federalists
8. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Annapolis Convention
John Brown
Anti-Saloon League
9. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Brown v Board of Ed
Boxer Rebellion
John Brown
10. 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
Bay of Pigs
James Fenimore Cooper
Cuban Missile Crisis
Missouri Compromise
11. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rosenbergs
Battle of Britain
12. 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.
Corrupt bargain
Jay's Treaty
Triangular Trade
Treaty of Ghent
13. 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
Ross Perot
The Feminine Mystique
Jay's Treaty
Bleeding Kansas
14. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Mutual Assured Destruction
Roger Williams
Boston Tea Party
Missouri Compromise
15. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Ross Perot
Civil Works Administration
Sacco-Vanzetti case
16. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Bank of the United States
Tippecanoe
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
17. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Berlin Wall
Tippecanoe
John Steinbeck
Atlantic Charter
18. 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
Puritans
National Origins Act
19. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Pendleton Act
Cash-and-carry
John Adams
20. 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
Bay of Pigs
Articles of Confederation
Helsinki Accords
John Adams
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
Earl Warren
Boston Tea Party
Black Panthers
22. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
CCC
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Boston Massacre
Smith Act
23. 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.
Bleeding Kansas
Central Powers
Mutual Assured Destruction
The Rosenbergs
24. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Hartford Convention
Jane Addams
Stokely Carmichael
Anti-federalists
25. 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 -
Silent Spring
Bleeding Kansas
Jacques Cartier
Alger Hiss
26. 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
Trust
Fidel Castro
Edgar Allen Poe
Cash-and-carry
27. 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.
Jay's Treaty
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Camp David Accords
Boston Massacre
28. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Camp David Accords
Ernest Hemingway
Black codes
29. 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.
John Quincy Adams
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Quasi-war
George Bush
30. 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.
Eugenics
Tiananmen Sqaure
Alien and Sedition Acts
Missouri Compromise
31. 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
Trust
Anti-Saloon League
Alien and Sedition Acts
Taft-Hartley Act
32. A leader of the transcendentalist movemetn and an advocate of American literary nationalism. He published a number of influential essays during the 1830s and 1840s - including "Nature" and "Self Reliance."
Jimmy Carter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacco-Vanzetti case
The Awakening
33. 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'
William Jennings Bryan
Civil Works Administration
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Gulf War
34. 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.
The Awakening
Camp meetings
Ernest Hemingway
H. L. Mencken
35. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Jacques Cartier
Henry David Thoreau
Helsinki Accords
36. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Lost generation
Gettysburg
Chinese Exclusion Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
37. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
First Great Awakening
William Jennings Bryan
Samuel de Champlain
38. Issued on August 14 - 1941 during a meeting between President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The charter outlined the ideal postwar world - condemned military aggression - asserted the right to national self-determination - a
Cash-and-carry
Central Powers
Atlantic Charter
The Feminine Mystique
39. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Boston Massacre
Tripartite Pact
Articles of Confederation
Bank of the United States
40. 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
Specie Circular
John C. Calhoun
Walt Whitman
41. 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
William Randolph Hearst
William Jennings Bryan
CIA
House Un-American Activities Committee
42. 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
First Great Awakening
Atlantic Charter
Brown v Board of Ed
Ernest Hemingway
43. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Northwest Ordinance
Earl Warren
Anti-Saloon League
John Adams
44. 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
Salutary neglect
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise
Henry Hudson
45. 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
Boxer Rebellion
The Feminine Mystique
Tripartite Pact
John Steinbeck
46. America's second president - served from 1797 to 1801. A federalist - he supported a powerful centralized government. His most notable actions in office were the undertakng of the quasi-war with France and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Ross Perot
Tippecanoe
John C. Calhoun
John Adams
47. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Tripartite Pact
John C. Calhoun
48. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Jacques Cartier
Fidel Castro
Gulf War
Brown v Board of Ed
49. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Deists
To Secure These Rights
Ross Perot
50. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
New Look
Pendleton Act
Axis powers
Treaty of San Lorenzo