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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Boston Massacre
Bay of Pigs
John Steinbeck
CIA
2. 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
John Adams
Checks and balances
Hartford Convention
Tripartite Pact
3. 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.
The Awakening
Camp David Accords
Ross Perot
Bill of Rights
4. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Henry Hudson
To Secure These Rights
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Earl Warren
5. 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
CIA
Trust
Corrupt bargain
George Bush
6. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Berlin Blockade
Civil Rights Act
7. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Economic Opportunity Act
Fidel Castro
Alger Hiss
William Randolph Hearst
8. 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
Eugenics
Bill of Rights
Battle of the Bulge
Susan B. Anthony
9. 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
Big stick diplomacy
John Quincy Adams
Civil Works Administration
Articles of Confederation
10. 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
Triangular Trade
Bull Moose Party
James Fenimore Cooper
Bank veto
11. 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
Henry Clay
Nuremburg Trials
Salutary neglect
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Boris Yeltsin
Civil Rights Act
Black codes
Bank of the United States
13. 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
John Brown
Gulf War
Ernest Hemingway
Jacques Cartier
14. 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.
Tippecanoe
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
Mikhail Gorbachev
15. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Assembly line
Shoot-on-sight order
Smith Act
16. Written by Kate Chopin in 1899. This novel portrays a married woman who defies social convention first by falling in love with another man - and then by committing suicide when she finds that his views on women are as oppressive as her husband's. It
Lend-Lease Act
The Awakening
Reaganomics
Deists
17. 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.
Helsinki Accords
CCC
American System
J. Robert Oppenheimer
18. 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 Panthers
Alger Hiss
Black codes
Missouri Compromise
19. 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
The Rosenbergs
John C. Calhoun
Committee to Defend America First
Missouri Compromise
20. 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.
Big stick diplomacy
AFL
CIA
Boston Tea Party
21. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Economic Opportunity Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
John C. Calhoun
22. 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.
Black Panthers
John Brown
Samuel Adams
Black codes
23. 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.
Reaganomics
Inflation
Civil Works Administration
Bank veto
24. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
George Bush
Nathaniel Hawthorne
New Look
Berlin Blockade
25. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
The Awakening
Popular Front
Great Society
26. 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
Tippecanoe
Eugenics
Edgar Allen Poe
27. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Palmer Raids
Assembly line
28. 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.
The Beats
Dynamic conservatism
Nuremburg Trials
John Steinbeck
29. 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
Gulf War
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Smith-Connolly Act
CCC
30. America's second president - served from 1797 to 1801. A federalist - he supported a powerful centralized government. His most notable actions in office were the undertakng of the quasi-war with France and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Jane Addams
Lend-Lease Act
John Adams
31. 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
Pendleton Act
American System
Edgar Allen Poe
32. The final German offensive in Western Europe - lasting from December 16 - 1944 - to January 16 - 1945. Hitler amassed his last reserves against Allied troops in France. Germany made a substantial dent in the Allied front line - but the Allies recover
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Battle of the Bulge
Earl Warren
Deists
33. 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
Saddam Hussein
Mikhail Gorbachev
William Jennings Bryan
Eugenics
34. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Henry Clay
American System
Puritans
35. 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
Salutary neglect
CCC
Alien and Sedition Acts
Trust
36. 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
Bull Moose Party
Bleeding Kansas
AAA
Assembly line
37. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Chinese Exclusion Act
Black Thursday
Camp David Accords
38. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Winston Churchill
Pendleton Act
Central Powers
39. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
John Brown
Earl Warren
CCC
Kansas-Nebraska Act
40. 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
Fidel Castro
Assembly line
J. Edgar Hoover
41. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
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42. 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
Reaganomics
Dynamic conservatism
Civil Rights Act
To Secure These Rights
43. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Puritans
Brown v Board of Ed
American System
Bank veto
44. 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
Salutary neglect
Smith Act
Antietam
Albany Plan
45. 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.
James Buchanan
Henry Clay
Berlin Blockade
Horatio Alger
46. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
American System
The Feminine Mystique
The Beats
47. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Camp meetings
Silent Spring
Annapolis Convention
48. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
The Rosenbergs
Camp meetings
Northwest Ordinance
Andrew Carnegie
49. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Mutual Assured Destruction
Bull Moose Party
50. Passed in 1930. This act limited the right to strike in key industries and authorized the president to intervene in any strike - eroding the generally amiable relationship between the government and organized labor during World War II.
Peace Corps
Hartford Convention
Smith-Connolly Act
Northwest Ordinance
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