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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Boris Yeltsin
John Cabot
Annapolis Convention
2. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
Carpetbaggers
Lost generation
Antietam
Assembly line
3. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Albany Plan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bill of Rights
4. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Roger Williams
To Secure These Rights
Battle of the Bulge
5. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
AFL
George Bush
6. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Committee to Defend America First
Baby boom
Gag rule
Sacco-Vanzetti case
7. 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
Allies
Anti-federalists
Atlantic Charter
H. L. Mencken
8. 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.
William Jennings Bryan
Sedition Amendment
Walt Whitman
J. Edgar Hoover
9. 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
Civil Rights Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Beats
Henry Clay
10. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Henry Hudson
Bank of the United States
Boxer Rebellion
Fidel Castro
11. 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
Tripartite Pact
Popular Front
Gettysburg
Anti-federalists
12. 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
Albany Plan
Inflation
Black codes
Antietam
13. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mercantilism
Baby boom
14. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Treaty of Greenville
Samuel de Champlain
Susan B. Anthony
Treaty of San Lorenzo
15. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Boris Yeltsin
Hartford Convention
John Steinbeck
Central Powers
16. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Students for a Democratic Society
Samuel Adams
Lend-Lease Act
The Awakening
17. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
James Buchanan
Tiananmen Sqaure
To Secure These Rights
18. 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.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Black Thursday
John Steinbeck
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 Age of Reason
The Rosenbergs
Checks and balances
Bill of Rights
20. 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
Peace Corps
William Randolph Hearst
Smith Act
John C. Calhoun
21. 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.
Black Thursday
National Origins Act
Saddam Hussein
Trust
22. A prominent transcendentalist writer. Two of his most famous writings are Civil Disobediance (1849) and Walden (1854). He advocatd living life according to one's conscience - removed from materialism and repressive social codes.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Henry David Thoreau
New Look
James Fenimore Cooper
23. Son of John Adams and president from 1825 to 1829. As James Monroe's secretary of state - he workerd to expand the nation's borders and authorized the Monroe Doctrine. His presidency was largely ineffectie due to lack of popular support; Congress blo
Bootleggers
John Quincy Adams
Tippecanoe
Chinese Exclusion Act
24. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
The Awakening
Boston Massacre
The Rosenbergs
25. 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.
John Adams
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Helsinki Accords
Samuel Adams
26. 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.
Assembly line
Deists
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Treaty of Greenville
27. 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
Gulf War
Henry Clay
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Gettysburg
28. 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
Roger Williams
Eugenics
Assembly line
Henry Cabot Lodge
29. 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
Ernest Hemingway
House Un-American Activities Committee
Anti-federalists
30. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
J. Edgar Hoover
Central Powers
Black Panthers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
31. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Berlin Blockade
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Gettysburg
32. 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
National Origins Act
Tippecanoe
William Jennings Bryan
Bay of Pigs
33. 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.
Henry Clay
First Great Awakening
Henry Hudson
Northwest Ordinance
34. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
Treaty of Ghent
Baby boom
Axis powers
35. 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
Peace Corps
Cash-and-carry
Samuel Adams
Civil Works Administration
36. 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
CIA
James Buchanan
Anti-federalists
Helsinki Accords
37. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Northwest Ordinance
Triangular Trade
38. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Black Thursday
First Great Awakening
Walt Whitman
The Awakening
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.
The Feminine Mystique
Alien and Sedition Acts
Samuel Adams
Treaty of Greenville
40. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Fidel Castro
Tripartite Pact
Smith Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
41. Lyndon B. Johnson's program for domestic policy. It aimed to achieve racial equality - end poverty - and improve health-care. Johnson pushed a number of laws through Congress early in this presidency - but the plan failed to materialize fully - as th
Fidel Castro
Great Society
Puritans
Iran-Contra affair
42. 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
Palmer Raids
Checks and balances
Committee to Defend America First
43. Longtime government employee who - in 1948 - was accused by Time editor Whitaker Chambers of spying for the USSR. After a series of highly publicized hearings and trials - he was convicted of perjury in 1950 and sentenced to five years imprisonment -
AFL
Alger Hiss
John Brown
Black Thursday
44. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Committee to Defend America First
Big stick diplomacy
Hartford Convention
J. Edgar Hoover
45. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Detente
George Bush
Mutual Assured Destruction
Pendleton Act
46. 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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47. 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
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48. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Alger Hiss
Eugenics
Bootleggers
AFL
49. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Berlin Wall
Reaganomics
Baby boom
50. The first ten amendments of the Constitution - which guarantee the civil rights of American citizens. Drafted by anti-federalists - including James Madison - to protect individuals from the tyranny they felt the Constitution might permit.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bill of Rights
Alien and Sedition Acts
Brown v Board of Ed