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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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 -
Taft-Hartley Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Eugenics
Trust
2. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Detente
Saddam Hussein
Camp meetings
3. 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
Nuremburg Trials
AFL
Triangular Trade
4. The partnership of Great Britain - France - and Italy during World War I. The alliance was pitted against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In 1917 - the US joined the war on this side. During World War II - the coalition included Gr
Nuremburg Trials
Lost generation
Allies
Bank of the United States
5. The popular name for the Kansas Territory in 1856 after abolitionist John Brown led a massacre at a pro-slavery camp - setting off waves of violence. Brown's massacre was in protest to the recent establishment of Kansas as a slave state. Pro-slavery
Cuban Missile Crisis
Antietam
Bleeding Kansas
Anti-Saloon League
6. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Students for a Democratic Society
National Origins Act
Eugenics
7. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Taft-Hartley Act
The Age of Reason
James Buchanan
8. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Iran-Contra affair
Northwest Ordinance
Ernest Hemingway
9. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Jimmy Carter
First Great Awakening
Gag rule
10. 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
Camp meetings
Helsinki Accords
Henry Clay
A Century of Dishonor
11. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Walt Whitman
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Mutual Assured Destruction
12. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
Gulf War
Joint-stock companies
Smith-Connolly Act
13. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Axis powers
Puritans
Treaty of Greenville
14. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Atlantic Charter
James Buchanan
15. 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'
Checks and balances
Gulf War
Jay's Treaty
Puritans
16. Constructed by the USSR and completed in August 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin. The wall cemented the poltical split of Berlin between the communist and authoritarian Eastand the capitalist and democratic West. The wall wa
Berlin Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Edgar Allen Poe
17. 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.
Salutary neglect
Jay's Treaty
Sedition Amendment
Gag rule
18. 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
Albany Plan
Trust
Brown v Board of Ed
Palmer Raids
19. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
William Jennings Bryan
Shoot-on-sight order
Antietam
20. 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
John Brown
Bull Moose Party
Silent Spring
Roger Williams
21. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Black codes
Henry Hudson
Mikhail Gorbachev
22. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Edgar Allen Poe
Boris Yeltsin
Tripartite Pact
Peace Corps
23. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
Atomic Energy Commission
William Randolph Hearst
Tippecanoe
Palmer Raids
24. The nickname of the Progressive Republican Party - led by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. This party had the best showing of any third party in the history of the US. Its emergence dramatically weakened the Republican Party and allowed the D
Battle of Britain
Bull Moose Party
First Great Awakening
Lend-Lease Act
25. 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
Checks and balances
Hartford Convention
Black Panthers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Winston Churchill
Mutual Assured Destruction
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Anti-Saloon League
27. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Big stick diplomacy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nuremburg Trials
28. 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.
H. L. Mencken
Northwest Ordinance
Bootleggers
Corrupt bargain
29. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
J. Edgar Hoover
Students for a Democratic Society
A Century of Dishonor
30. Written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. Exposed the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT. Carson's book helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among the American people.
Big stick diplomacy
Economic Opportunity Act
Silent Spring
Atlantic Charter
31. 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 -
Alger Hiss
Axis powers
Baby boom
Sedition Amendment
32. Signed on Christmas Eve in 1815. Ended the War of 1812 and returned relations between the US and Britain to the way things were before the war.
Treaty of Ghent
Anti-federalists
Stokely Carmichael
Battle of Britain
33. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Henry David Thoreau
Deists
AAA
34. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
Tippecanoe
Smith-Connolly Act
Checks and balances
35. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
J. Edgar Hoover
Tripartite Pact
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sacco-Vanzetti case
36. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Battle of Britain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tripartite Pact
John Brown
37. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Cash-and-carry
Stokely Carmichael
Gulf War
38. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
The Feminine Mystique
Tippecanoe
House Un-American Activities Committee
The Beats
39. 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
Atlantic Charter
Hartford Convention
Boston Tea Party
Baby boom
40. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
The Beats
Lend-Lease Act
Pendleton Act
41. 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.
Helsinki Accords
John Adams
Assembly line
Committee to Defend America First
42. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Edgar Allen Poe
Treaty of Ghent
Corrupt bargain
Chinese Exclusion Act
43. 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.
Civil Works Administration
CIA
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Smith Act
44. 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
45. 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
John C. Calhoun
American System
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Awakening
46. 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
Silent Spring
Great Society
New Look
47. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bleeding Kansas
48. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
The Feminine Mystique
Central Powers
Tiananmen Sqaure
Civil Rights Act
49. 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
Eugenics
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Tiananmen Sqaure
Smith Act
50. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Mercantilism
Boston Tea Party