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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
Saddam Hussein
Henry Cabot Lodge
Edgar Allen Poe
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
Shoot-on-sight order
Atlantic Charter
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Tripartite Pact
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.
Great Society
Henry Hudson
Sedition Amendment
Helsinki Accords
4. 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 Brown
Stokely Carmichael
Smith Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Susan B. Anthony
Anti-Saloon League
James Fenimore Cooper
Atlantic Charter
6. Andrew Jackon's 1832 veto of the proposed charter renewal for the Second Bank of the United States. The veto marked the beginning of Jackon's five-year battle against the national bank.
Treaty of Greenville
The Age of Reason
Bank veto
Mutual Assured Destruction
7. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
Treaty of Greenville
Roger Williams
Cuban Missile Crisis
John C. Calhoun
8. 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
Berlin Wall
First Great Awakening
Allies
Articles of Confederation
9. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Baby boom
Chinese Exclusion Act
Battle of the Bulge
Black Power
10. 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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Deists
AFL
Bootleggers
11. 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.
Bootleggers
Earl Warren
Jimmy Carter
Cuban Missile Crisis
12. 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.
Bay of Pigs
National Origins Act
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Randolph Hearst
13. 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'
Gulf War
Black Panthers
Horatio Alger
Bank of the United States
14. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Henry Clay
15. 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
Detente
Anti-Saloon League
Iran-Contra affair
Alger Hiss
16. 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
Antietam
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Silent Spring
17. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Saddam Hussein
Edgar Allen Poe
Baby boom
Henry Hudson
18. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Committee to Defend America First
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Civil Works Administration
19. Crafted by Henry Clay and backed by the National Republican Party - this plan proposed a series of tariffs and federally funded transportation imporvements - geared toward acheiving national economic self-sufficiency.
American System
Black Panthers
Annapolis Convention
Baby boom
20. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Black codes
Treaty of Ghent
John Steinbeck
Boston Tea Party
21. 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.
Silent Spring
Northwest Ordinance
Bill of Rights
Committee to Defend America First
22. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Albany Plan
To Secure These Rights
Black Thursday
Sacco-Vanzetti case
23. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
Lost generation
Jacques Cartier
Black Thursday
24. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Taft-Hartley Act
Popular Front
Cash-and-carry
Bill of Rights
25. 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
Civil Works Administration
Assembly line
Detente
William Jennings Bryan
26. 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."
John Brown
National Origins Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. 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
Lost generation
Brown v Board of Ed
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
Gulf War
The Beats
Black codes
Mercantilism
29. Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy summed up his aggressive stance toward international affairs with the phrase - "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Under this doctrine - the US declared its domination over Latin American and built the Panama Can
Missouri Compromise
John Cabot
Bacon's Rebellion
Big stick diplomacy
30. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Black Thursday
House Un-American Activities Committee
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
31. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Lost generation
Camp meetings
Jane Addams
William Jennings Bryan
32. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
Black Power
Economic Opportunity Act
First Great Awakening
James Fenimore Cooper
33. 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 -
Battle of Britain
Missouri Compromise
William Jennings Bryan
Sacco-Vanzetti case
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.
Leif Ericson
Roger Williams
Black Thursday
Henry Hudson
35. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Mercantilism
Articles of Confederation
First Great Awakening
36. The alleged leader of a group of Vikings who sailed to the eastern coast of Canada and attempted - unsuccessfully - to colonize the area around the year 1000- nearly 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
Hartford Convention
Leif Ericson
Bull Moose Party
Civil Rights Act
37. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Lost generation
Mutual Assured Destruction
Mercantilism
Boxer Rebellion
38. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Treaty of Greenville
Boxer Rebellion
Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. 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.
Anti-Imperialist League
Assembly line
Big stick diplomacy
Samuel Adams
40. 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
Gettysburg
Sacco-Vanzetti case
AFL
Camp meetings
41. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Big stick diplomacy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alien and Sedition Acts
42. 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
Samuel Adams
William Jennings Bryan
AFL
43. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Central Powers
Carpetbaggers
John Cabot
Battle of Britain
44. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Bleeding Kansas
Economic Opportunity Act
45. 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
Inflation
Corrupt bargain
Great Society
Anti-Saloon League
46. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
Battle of the Bulge
Anti-Saloon League
Black Panthers
Hartford Convention
47. 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
American System
Boris Yeltsin
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Cabot Lodge
48. 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
Tippecanoe
The Beats
CCC
49. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Winston Churchill
Bleeding Kansas
Black codes
50. 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
Henry Hudson
Axis powers
Black codes