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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
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Mutual Assured Destruction
Tripartite Pact
Henry Clay
2. 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
Lend-Lease Act
The Rosenbergs
Sedition Amendment
To Secure These Rights
3. 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.
Battle of Britain
Henry Clay
Anti-federalists
Helsinki Accords
4. 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
Gettysburg
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Feminine Mystique
Assembly line
5. 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
Inflation
First Great Awakening
John Brown
Atlantic Charter
6. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
The Awakening
Civil Rights Act
The Feminine Mystique
Bill of Rights
7. 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
H. L. Mencken
Triangular Trade
Andrew Carnegie
8. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
H. L. Mencken
Berlin Wall
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Axis powers
9. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election - he failed to win the requisite majority and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams for
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Anti-federalists
Corrupt bargain
Leif Ericson
10. 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."
John Quincy Adams
John Cabot
Stokely Carmichael
Fidel Castro
11. 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
Berlin Blockade
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Carpetbaggers
Alien and Sedition Acts
12. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Albany Plan
Lend-Lease Act
13. 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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
A Century of Dishonor
Anti-Saloon League
14. 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
Bill of Rights
Ernest Hemingway
Bull Moose Party
15. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Axis powers
Bank of the United States
Boris Yeltsin
Taft-Hartley Act
16. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Economic Opportunity Act
Ross Perot
Atomic Energy Commission
Saddam Hussein
17. 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
AFL
Northwest Ordinance
Carpetbaggers
Albany Plan
18. 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).
H. L. Mencken
Edgar Allen Poe
Alger Hiss
Treaty of Greenville
19. 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.
John C. Calhoun
The Rosenbergs
Tippecanoe
Mikhail Gorbachev
20. 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
Jay's Treaty
Iran-Contra affair
Jimmy Carter
21. 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.
Treaty of Ghent
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Edgar Allen Poe
J. Robert Oppenheimer
22. 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
Fidel Castro
Tiananmen Sqaure
George Bush
Salutary neglect
23. 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
Berlin Wall
Deists
J. Edgar Hoover
24. Primarily concerned with international espionage and information gathering. In the 1950s - this organization became heavily involved in many civil struggles in the Third World - supporting groups likely to cooperate with the US rather than the USSR.
Lend-Lease Act
CIA
Annapolis Convention
Winston Churchill
25. 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
Missouri Compromise
Axis powers
Stokely Carmichael
Articles of Confederation
26. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
CCC
Triangular Trade
The Rosenbergs
27. 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'
Boston Tea Party
The Rosenbergs
Henry Clay
Gulf War
28. 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
29. 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.
Carpetbaggers
New Look
Smith-Connolly Act
National Origins Act
30. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Anti-federalists
Assembly line
Carpetbaggers
31. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Shoot-on-sight order
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Works Administration
32. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Specie Circular
Stokely Carmichael
Lend-Lease Act
33. 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
A Century of Dishonor
American Civil Liberties Union
Gag rule
John Steinbeck
34. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry Hudson
The Age of Reason
Shoot-on-sight order
35. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Silent Spring
Bank of the United States
Nuremburg Trials
36. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Black codes
John Steinbeck
Silent Spring
37. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Salutary neglect
Edgar Allen Poe
Roger Williams
Anti-Saloon League
38. 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
Baby boom
Boxer Rebellion
Stokely Carmichael
39. Nickname given to northerners who moved South during Reconstruction in search of political and economic opportunity. The term was coined by Southern Democrats - who said that these northern opportunists had left home so quickly that they were able to
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Battle of Britain
Detente
Carpetbaggers
40. 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
Black Power
Hartford Convention
Civil Rights Act
Annapolis Convention
41. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
AFL
Edgar Allen Poe
Gag rule
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.
Camp David Accords
Black Power
Andrew Carnegie
J. Edgar Hoover
43. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Horatio Alger
Baby boom
Puritans
Henry Hudson
44. 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
AFL
Palmer Raids
Bacon's Rebellion
Allies
45. 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
Albany Plan
Civil Works Administration
National Origins Act
Missouri Compromise
46. 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
Civil Works Administration
Inflation
Mutual Assured Destruction
47. 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.
AAA
Jacques Cartier
Committee to Defend America First
Tippecanoe
48. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Committee to Defend America First
Checks and balances
49. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Berlin Wall
John Brown
Smith-Connolly Act
50. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Big stick diplomacy
Bull Moose Party
John Adams