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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Winston Churchill
John Cabot
Committee to Defend America First
The Awakening
2. 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
Helsinki Accords
Jacques Cartier
Allies
Quasi-war
3. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Anti-Saloon League
Gulf War
Trust
4. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Winston Churchill
Earl Warren
Bay of Pigs
5. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
CIA
Jimmy Carter
Detente
The Feminine Mystique
6. 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
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
Taft-Hartley Act
Carpetbaggers
7. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
J. Edgar Hoover
Jane Addams
Eugenics
Susan B. Anthony
8. 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
Boston Tea Party
Bacon's Rebellion
Treaty of Greenville
9. The nickname of the Progressive Republican Party - led by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. This party had the best showing of any third party in the history of the US. Its emergence dramatically weakened the Republican Party and allowed the D
Bull Moose Party
John C. Calhoun
The Age of Reason
Assembly line
10. 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.
Baby boom
Bill of Rights
Civil Works Administration
Berlin Blockade
11. A moderate Democrat with support from both the North and South who served as president of the US from 1857 to 1861. He could not stem the tide of sectional conflict that eventually erupted into Civil War.
Salutary neglect
Deists
Northwest Ordinance
James Buchanan
12. 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 -
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Dynamic conservatism
Taft-Hartley Act
John Brown
13. 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
Allies
Battle of Britain
New Look
Ross Perot
14. 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."
Walt Whitman
Boston Tea Party
Iran-Contra affair
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
William Randolph Hearst
Nuremburg Trials
Ross Perot
16. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
A Century of Dishonor
Anti-Imperialist League
Anti-federalists
Boston Massacre
17. Founded on the premise that the "perfect" human society could be achieved through genetic tinkering. Popularized during the Progressive Era - writers on this subject often used this theory to justify a supremacist white Protestant ideology - which ad
Berlin Blockade
Eugenics
George Bush
Civil Works Administration
18. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Iran-Contra affair
Bootleggers
Tripartite Pact
CCC
19. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Cash-and-carry
Chinese Exclusion Act
Axis powers
Peace Corps
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
Articles of Confederation
Black Thursday
Nuremburg Trials
New Look
21. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Camp David Accords
Mikhail Gorbachev
AAA
22. 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
Triangular Trade
Lost generation
Popular Front
Camp David Accords
23. 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
Bootleggers
Iran-Contra affair
Henry Cabot Lodge
Dynamic conservatism
24. 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.
Detente
The Beats
Trust
Anti-Saloon League
25. 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."
Stokely Carmichael
Alien and Sedition Acts
Baby boom
Nuremburg Trials
26. 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
Bill of Rights
Ernest Hemingway
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Boxer Rebellion
27. A French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region between 1534 and 1542. He searched for a Northwest Passage - a waterway through which ships could cross the Americas and access Asia. He found no such passage but opened the region up to futu
Jacques Cartier
Puritans
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Edgar Allen Poe
28. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Albany Plan
Bull Moose Party
Gettysburg
29. Prime minister of England from 1940 to 1945. He was known for his inspirational speeches and zealous pursuit of war victory. Together he - FDR - and Stalin mapped out the post-war world order as the "Big Three." In 1946 - he coined the term "iron cur
Winston Churchill
New Look
Sedition Amendment
Northwest Ordinance
30. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Inflation
Bacon's Rebellion
Assembly line
31. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Alien and Sedition Acts
William Jennings Bryan
Black Power
J. Robert Oppenheimer
32. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Black Thursday
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Assembly line
American System
33. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter
Leif Ericson
Central Powers
James Buchanan
34. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Axis powers
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
35. 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
First Great Awakening
Helsinki Accords
Jimmy Carter
Atlantic Charter
36. 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.
Black codes
Economic Opportunity Act
Anti-federalists
Smith-Connolly Act
37. 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
Berlin Blockade
Civil Works Administration
Specie Circular
38. A series of raids coordinated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Throughout 1910 - police and federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations in thirty-two cities. The raids resulted in more
James Fenimore Cooper
Palmer Raids
James Buchanan
Central Powers
39. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Walt Whitman
Assembly line
Missouri Compromise
Camp David Accords
40. 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
Assembly line
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
George Bush
41. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Popular Front
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Earl Warren
42. 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
Assembly line
AFL
Inflation
Boris Yeltsin
43. 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'
Jacques Cartier
Jay's Treaty
Sedition Amendment
Gulf War
44. 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.
George Bush
Camp David Accords
Black Power
Susan B. Anthony
45. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Mercantilism
H. L. Mencken
Detente
Saddam Hussein
46. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Stokely Carmichael
Axis powers
Bill of Rights
Treaty of San Lorenzo
47. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Leif Ericson
John Quincy Adams
William Randolph Hearst
48. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
American System
Tiananmen Sqaure
Camp David Accords
49. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
Sedition Amendment
Horatio Alger
Antietam
Black Panthers
50. 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.
Gag rule
Gulf War
First Great Awakening
Ross Perot