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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Helsinki Accords
Henry Hudson
American System
Fidel Castro
2. 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
Popular Front
Mercantilism
John Brown
National Origins Act
3. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Annapolis Convention
Walt Whitman
Tiananmen Sqaure
4. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Detente
National Origins Act
5. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Jimmy Carter
Lend-Lease Act
Axis powers
6. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Detente
Bacon's Rebellion
Atomic Energy Commission
Anti-federalists
7. 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.
Henry Hudson
Articles of Confederation
Jimmy Carter
J. Edgar Hoover
8. 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
George Bush
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Deists
9. 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
John C. Calhoun
Walt Whitman
Inflation
Smith Act
10. 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
New Look
Northwest Ordinance
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
11. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Annapolis Convention
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Axis powers
12. 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
Tippecanoe
Gag rule
American System
Big stick diplomacy
13. 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.
Earl Warren
Civil Works Administration
To Secure These Rights
Bleeding Kansas
14. 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
George Bush
Jimmy Carter
Winston Churchill
Triangular Trade
15. 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.
Leif Ericson
Jacques Cartier
Bay of Pigs
Eugenics
16. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Henry David Thoreau
Peace Corps
James Fenimore Cooper
Bill of Rights
17. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
First Great Awakening
Assembly line
18. 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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19. 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.
Bank of the United States
Helsinki Accords
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Ross Perot
20. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Reaganomics
Bacon's Rebellion
Samuel de Champlain
Central Powers
21. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
H. L. Mencken
Boston Massacre
Roger Williams
Specie Circular
22. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anti-Imperialist League
Treaty of Ghent
Atlantic Charter
23. 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
Allies
Roger Williams
Peace Corps
24. 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.
First Great Awakening
H. L. Mencken
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Feminine Mystique
25. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Susan B. Anthony
26. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Boston Massacre
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Baby boom
27. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Henry David Thoreau
Peace Corps
Checks and balances
28. 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
Allies
Samuel Adams
Boxer Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
29. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
The Beats
Big stick diplomacy
Assembly line
Specie Circular
30. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Brown v Board of Ed
Samuel Adams
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
31. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil Works Administration
Jane Addams
32. 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
Alger Hiss
Berlin Blockade
Susan B. Anthony
Berlin Wall
33. 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
James Buchanan
Sedition Amendment
Assembly line
Camp David Accords
34. 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.
Silent Spring
Jacques Cartier
Sedition Amendment
Boston Tea Party
35. 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
Anti-federalists
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fidel Castro
The Rosenbergs
36. 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.
Specie Circular
Committee to Defend America First
John Adams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. 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
American System
H. L. Mencken
Assembly line
Lend-Lease Act
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.
Bleeding Kansas
American Civil Liberties Union
Henry Clay
Treaty of Greenville
39. 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
John C. Calhoun
Cash-and-carry
Gettysburg
Alien and Sedition Acts
40. 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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41. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Gag rule
AAA
Hartford Convention
42. 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
James Buchanan
Corrupt bargain
First Great Awakening
Treaty of Greenville
43. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Lend-Lease Act
Bank of the United States
The Awakening
Black codes
44. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Puritans
AAA
Taft-Hartley Act
45. Written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881 - this work attempted to raise public awareness of the harsh and dishonorable treatment of Native Americans at the hands of the US.
Treaty of Greenville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Century of Dishonor
Assembly line
46. 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
Antietam
Earl Warren
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Samuel Adams
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Axis powers
48. 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.
Alger Hiss
To Secure These Rights
CIA
Assembly line
49. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Eugenics
John Steinbeck
Dynamic conservatism
50. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Articles of Confederation
CIA
Civil Rights Act