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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
Popular Front
The Feminine Mystique
Articles of Confederation
2. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
Walt Whitman
The Beats
Sedition Amendment
Black Panthers
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
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Clay
The Awakening
Trust
4. Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Democratic-Republican support. On the grounds of "national security -" the acts increased the number of years required to gain citizenship - allowed for the imprisonment and depo
Brown v Board of Ed
John Steinbeck
Alien and Sedition Acts
Mikhail Gorbachev
5. 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
Fidel Castro
Earl Warren
AAA
A Century of Dishonor
6. 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.
Berlin Wall
Civil Rights Act
Annapolis Convention
Reaganomics
7. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Henry Clay
Students for a Democratic Society
Boston Tea Party
Berlin Blockade
8. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
American Civil Liberties Union
To Secure These Rights
Pendleton Act
Walt Whitman
9. 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.
Mercantilism
Shoot-on-sight order
Bay of Pigs
Henry Hudson
10. 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
Gettysburg
John Brown
The Awakening
Leif Ericson
11. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Nuremburg Trials
American Civil Liberties Union
House Un-American Activities Committee
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
12. 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
National Origins Act
John Cabot
Civil Works Administration
13. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Gettysburg
Anti-Imperialist League
Reaganomics
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
Gettysburg
Mutual Assured Destruction
New Look
Anti-Saloon League
15. 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
Sedition Amendment
The Feminine Mystique
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
A Century of Dishonor
16. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Trust
Black Thursday
Jane Addams
17. 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.
Henry Hudson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Popular Front
Camp meetings
18. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Civil Works Administration
Saddam Hussein
Berlin Blockade
Antietam
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
Pendleton Act
Tippecanoe
Berlin Blockade
20. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
H. L. Mencken
Andrew Carnegie
Anti-Saloon League
Pendleton Act
21. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Tiananmen Sqaure
Pendleton Act
Checks and balances
22. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Fidel Castro
Jacques Cartier
Earl Warren
Baby boom
23. 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'
Tiananmen Sqaure
The Rosenbergs
Gulf War
Winston Churchill
24. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Reaganomics
25. 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
Henry Hudson
First Great Awakening
To Secure These Rights
Taft-Hartley Act
26. 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
Civil Works Administration
CIA
Antietam
27. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Tippecanoe
Bank veto
Jane Addams
28. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
Specie Circular
Gettysburg
Shoot-on-sight order
29. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Battle of Britain
Black Thursday
Silent Spring
30. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Saddam Hussein
Bootleggers
First Great Awakening
Bull Moose Party
31. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
Brown v Board of Ed
New Look
Battle of Britain
Black codes
32. 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.
Black codes
Committee to Defend America First
William Randolph Hearst
Anti-Saloon League
33. 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 Power
Dynamic conservatism
Economic Opportunity Act
Stokely Carmichael
34. Defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. The ordinace forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established.
First Great Awakening
Northwest Ordinance
Allies
John Cabot
35. 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
Berlin Blockade
Northwest Ordinance
Pendleton Act
Fidel Castro
36. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Anti-Imperialist League
Jane Addams
Roger Williams
37. 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
The Beats
Lost generation
Missouri Compromise
Chinese Exclusion Act
38. 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.
Deists
Jimmy Carter
Assembly line
Dynamic conservatism
39. 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
National Origins Act
Smith Act
Earl Warren
Sedition Amendment
40. 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
Antietam
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Atlantic Charter
41. 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
Reaganomics
Lost generation
Anti-Imperialist League
Cuban Missile Crisis
42. 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
James Buchanan
Brown v Board of Ed
Henry Cabot Lodge
43. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Missouri Compromise
John Cabot
Triangular Trade
American Civil Liberties Union
44. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Henry Hudson
George Bush
Battle of Britain
Tripartite Pact
45. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
H. L. Mencken
Nuremburg Trials
46. The last Soviet political leader. He became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and president of the USSR in 1988. He helped ease tension between the US and the USSR- work that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He oversaw the fal
Dynamic conservatism
The Awakening
Smith Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
47. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Treaty of Ghent
Camp meetings
The Feminine Mystique
Bay of Pigs
48. 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
Mercantilism
Missouri Compromise
Puritans
Northwest Ordinance
49. 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
American System
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Jacques Cartier
50. 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 -
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Tippecanoe
Black Panthers
Sacco-Vanzetti case