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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sedition Amendment
Deists
Fidel Castro
2. 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.
Alger Hiss
John Brown
Boston Tea Party
Black Power
3. 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.
Treaty of Ghent
Deists
John Brown
Tippecanoe
4. 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.
Popular Front
Ernest Hemingway
Cuban Missile Crisis
Articles of Confederation
5. 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.
Pendleton Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
Northwest Ordinance
Battle of the Bulge
6. 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."
Gulf War
Winston Churchill
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tippecanoe
7. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Jay's Treaty
Camp meetings
8. 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.
Bill of Rights
Treaty of Greenville
Annapolis Convention
Trust
9. 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.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Annapolis Convention
Berlin Blockade
Triangular Trade
10. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
John C. Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau
Horatio Alger
Eugenics
11. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Berlin Blockade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Jennings Bryan
12. 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
Anti-federalists
Hartford Convention
Samuel de Champlain
Smith-Connolly Act
13. 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
Ross Perot
Northwest Ordinance
Jane Addams
14. 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
Cash-and-carry
New Look
Henry David Thoreau
Boston Tea Party
15. 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.
Samuel Adams
The Age of Reason
Salutary neglect
Jay's Treaty
16. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Central Powers
The Age of Reason
Antietam
17. Written by Betty Friedan in 1963. This book was a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement. It denounced the belief that women should be tied to the home and encouraged women to get involved in activities outside their home and family.
Missouri Compromise
Jay's Treaty
National Origins Act
The Feminine Mystique
18. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
National Origins Act
Boston Tea Party
Checks and balances
19. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Puritans
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nuremburg Trials
George Bush
20. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Triangular Trade
Tiananmen Sqaure
Gettysburg
21. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Anti-federalists
Jane Addams
Committee to Defend America First
Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. 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.
Bill of Rights
Helsinki Accords
Jimmy Carter
Shoot-on-sight order
23. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Boston Massacre
Mutual Assured Destruction
Civil Rights Act
Inflation
24. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Gulf War
Roger Williams
Corrupt bargain
Axis powers
25. 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
H. L. Mencken
To Secure These Rights
Lost generation
John C. Calhoun
26. A group of zealous Chinese nationalists terrorized foreigners and Chinese Christians - capturing Beijing (Peking) in June 1900 and threatening European and American interests in Chinese markets. The US committed 2 -500 men to an international force t
Camp meetings
Lend-Lease Act
Boxer Rebellion
Economic Opportunity Act
27. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Stokely Carmichael
Boston Massacre
AAA
28. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
George Bush
House Un-American Activities Committee
Henry Cabot Lodge
J. Edgar Hoover
29. 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
Deists
Henry Hudson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Roger Williams
30. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Antietam
Axis powers
Mikhail Gorbachev
Treaty of San Lorenzo
31. 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.
John Steinbeck
American System
William Jennings Bryan
Joint-stock companies
32. 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
Leif Ericson
The Awakening
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Clay
33. 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
Specie Circular
Boris Yeltsin
Economic Opportunity Act
34. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Gag rule
William Jennings Bryan
Black Thursday
Anti-Saloon League
35. 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
Articles of Confederation
Battle of the Bulge
Boris Yeltsin
Atomic Energy Commission
36. 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
William Jennings Bryan
George Bush
Anti-federalists
37. A 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed the "seperate but equal" segregationist doctrine established by the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision. The Court ruled that seperated facilities were inherently unequal and ordered public schools to
Brown v Board of Ed
The Age of Reason
CCC
Andrew Carnegie
38. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
Corrupt bargain
Bleeding Kansas
Detente
39. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Anti-Imperialist League
Atomic Energy Commission
Sedition Amendment
Central Powers
40. 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.
The Beats
Articles of Confederation
Camp David Accords
Samuel de Champlain
41. 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.
National Origins Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Puritans
Black Panthers
42. 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
Helsinki Accords
Bank of the United States
New Look
Black Thursday
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 -
Palmer Raids
Alger Hiss
John C. Calhoun
John Steinbeck
44. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Quasi-war
Shoot-on-sight order
Edgar Allen Poe
45. 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
Civil Rights Act
National Origins Act
Nuremburg Trials
Atlantic Charter
46. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Big stick diplomacy
Winston Churchill
47. 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
Battle of the Bulge
George Bush
Mercantilism
48. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Black codes
Cuban Missile Crisis
Saddam Hussein
Jimmy Carter
49. 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.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Black Thursday
Bill of Rights
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
Bootleggers
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Bleeding Kansas