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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
American System
Jay's Treaty
2. 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
John C. Calhoun
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Feminine Mystique
Lend-Lease Act
3. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Samuel de Champlain
Roger Williams
Treaty of Greenville
4. 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
Annapolis Convention
Henry Cabot Lodge
Gettysburg
Bank of the United States
5. 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
Boston Massacre
American Civil Liberties Union
Popular Front
Missouri Compromise
6. 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
Henry Clay
Boxer Rebellion
John Quincy Adams
William Jennings Bryan
7. 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.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Anti-Saloon League
Bank veto
Central Powers
8. 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
Quasi-war
Chinese Exclusion Act
New Look
Nuremburg Trials
9. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Black Thursday
Lost generation
Ernest Hemingway
10. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. Robert Oppenheimer
11. 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
Atlantic Charter
Quasi-war
Leif Ericson
Central Powers
12. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Stokely Carmichael
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Walt Whitman
Tiananmen Sqaure
13. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Camp meetings
Shoot-on-sight order
14. 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'
Bay of Pigs
CIA
Gulf War
The Feminine Mystique
15. 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
Walt Whitman
Treaty of Greenville
John Adams
Berlin Blockade
16. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Taft-Hartley Act
John Cabot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Randolph Hearst
17. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Ross Perot
Tripartite Pact
American System
Popular Front
18. 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
Camp meetings
Detente
Quasi-war
Kansas-Nebraska Act
19. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Battle of the Bulge
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ross Perot
20. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Look
Specie Circular
21. 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 -
Silent Spring
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Jay's Treaty
Bleeding Kansas
22. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Andrew Carnegie
George Bush
Cash-and-carry
John Cabot
23. 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
Cash-and-carry
John Adams
Shoot-on-sight order
Brown v Board of Ed
24. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bay of Pigs
John Brown
Bank of the United States
Gag rule
25. 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.
Bank veto
Helsinki Accords
Chinese Exclusion Act
Samuel Adams
26. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Nuremburg Trials
Assembly line
Atomic Energy Commission
Checks and balances
27. Political figure throughout the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He served as James Monroe's secretary of war - as John Quincy Adam's vice president - and then as Andrew Jackson's vice president for one term. A firm believer in states' ri
John C. Calhoun
Gettysburg
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Central Powers
28. 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
Earl Warren
Black codes
Hartford Convention
William Randolph Hearst
29. 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
Deists
Boston Tea Party
Henry Clay
Berlin Blockade
30. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Leif Ericson
Bacon's Rebellion
31. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
The Age of Reason
Samuel de Champlain
Alien and Sedition Acts
A Century of Dishonor
32. 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.
Henry Hudson
Hartford Convention
Saddam Hussein
Berlin Blockade
33. 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.
Camp David Accords
Boston Massacre
George Bush
Camp meetings
34. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Civil Works Administration
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albany Plan
35. 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.
Gettysburg
Tiananmen Sqaure
Boris Yeltsin
Missouri Compromise
36. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Massacre
Andrew Carnegie
Tippecanoe
AAA
37. 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
Black Thursday
Triangular Trade
Dynamic conservatism
Nuremburg Trials
38. 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
Assembly line
Treaty of Ghent
First Great Awakening
Baby boom
39. 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
Central Powers
Baby boom
Stokely Carmichael
Trust
40. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Henry Hudson
First Great Awakening
41. 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
Stokely Carmichael
Eugenics
Iran-Contra affair
John Brown
42. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Brown v Board of Ed
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hartford Convention
43. 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
Salutary neglect
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jacques Cartier
Mutual Assured Destruction
44. 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.
Trust
Committee to Defend America First
Samuel Adams
Inflation
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.
Students for a Democratic Society
John Steinbeck
CCC
Detente
46. 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
Jay's Treaty
Albany Plan
Boris Yeltsin
Peace Corps
47. Son of John Adams and president from 1825 to 1829. As James Monroe's secretary of state - he workerd to expand the nation's borders and authorized the Monroe Doctrine. His presidency was largely ineffectie due to lack of popular support; Congress blo
Civil Rights Act
Great Society
Bleeding Kansas
John Quincy Adams
48. Submitted by Benjamin Franklin to the 1754 gathering of colonial delegates in Albany - New York. The plan called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. Although the delegates in Albany approved the plan - the col
Corrupt bargain
Articles of Confederation
Albany Plan
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
49. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Berlin Wall
Triangular Trade
Bill of Rights
50. 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."
Andrew Carnegie
Bootleggers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tiananmen Sqaure