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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
Treaty of Greenville
George Bush
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Bill of Rights
2. 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.
Deists
Missouri Compromise
Ross Perot
Camp David Accords
3. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Anti-federalists
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
CIA
4. 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
Bull Moose Party
Bank veto
Bank of the United States
Battle of the Bulge
5. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Palmer Raids
Battle of Britain
6. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Joint-stock companies
Henry Clay
Inflation
Treaty of San Lorenzo
7. 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.
Black codes
Lend-Lease Act
Deists
Articles of Confederation
8. Formed in the absence of support form the British crown - these companies accrued funding for colonization through the sale of public stock. They dominated English colonization throughout the seventeenth century.
Northwest Ordinance
Inflation
Joint-stock companies
Treaty of Greenville
9. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Specie Circular
Chinese Exclusion Act
Saddam Hussein
Fidel Castro
10. In June 1807 - the British naval frigate HMS Leopard opened fire on the American naval frigate USS Chesapeake - killing three men and wounding twenty. British naval officers then boarded the American ship - seized four men who had deserted the Royal
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
John Quincy Adams
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Atlantic Charter
11. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
John C. Calhoun
Assembly line
Atomic Energy Commission
12. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Committee to Defend America First
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bank of the United States
Berlin Wall
13. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Brown v Board of Ed
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Roger Williams
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
Bank veto
Bill of Rights
Samuel de Champlain
Winston Churchill
15. 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
Camp meetings
Susan B. Anthony
American Civil Liberties Union
Atlantic Charter
16. 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.
Jay's Treaty
Big stick diplomacy
American System
Treaty of Ghent
17. 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
New Look
John C. Calhoun
AFL
Missouri Compromise
18. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Berlin Wall
Ernest Hemingway
Missouri Compromise
19. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael
Leif Ericson
Baby boom
Allies
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
Horatio Alger
John Brown
Sedition Amendment
Atomic Energy Commission
21. 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.
Horatio Alger
Battle of Britain
Bank veto
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
22. 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
Boston Tea Party
Joint-stock companies
AFL
Leif Ericson
23. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Mercantilism
The Awakening
Jimmy Carter
Bill of Rights
24. 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
Detente
Brown v Board of Ed
First Great Awakening
Northwest Ordinance
25. 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
Mercantilism
Pendleton Act
The Rosenbergs
Bay of Pigs
26. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Quasi-war
Dynamic conservatism
CIA
27. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Chinese Exclusion Act
James Buchanan
Puritans
28. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Tippecanoe
John Adams
Dynamic conservatism
29. 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.
Quasi-war
Dynamic conservatism
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Andrew Carnegie
30. 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.
To Secure These Rights
National Origins Act
Jay's Treaty
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
31. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
The Rosenbergs
Puritans
Tripartite Pact
Henry Clay
32. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Students for a Democratic Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First Great Awakening
33. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Susan B. Anthony
Baby boom
Camp meetings
Inflation
34. 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.
American System
Tippecanoe
Bill of Rights
Inflation
35. 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.
The Awakening
John Steinbeck
House Un-American Activities Committee
The Feminine Mystique
36. 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
Tripartite Pact
John C. Calhoun
The Beats
Checks and balances
37. 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.
Camp meetings
AAA
Axis powers
Treaty of Ghent
38. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Jane Addams
Eugenics
Walt Whitman
39. An influential American writer in the early nineteenth century. His novels - The Pioneers (1823) - The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - and others - employed distinctly American themes.
John C. Calhoun
Atomic Energy Commission
James Fenimore Cooper
Antietam
40. 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.
Black Thursday
Corrupt bargain
Treaty of San Lorenzo
A Century of Dishonor
41. 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.
Reaganomics
Joint-stock companies
Berlin Wall
James Buchanan
42. 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
Bleeding Kansas
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Smith Act
43. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
The Age of Reason
Camp meetings
Boxer Rebellion
Quasi-war
44. 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
The Awakening
John Quincy Adams
Big stick diplomacy
Treaty of Ghent
45. 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
Smith Act
Albany Plan
Black Panthers
Axis powers
46. 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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47. 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
Henry Hudson
Triangular Trade
Boxer Rebellion
Battle of the Bulge
48. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Albany Plan
Assembly line
Jimmy Carter
49. 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
John Quincy Adams
AAA
Jacques Cartier
Baby boom
50. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Samuel Adams
Carpetbaggers
The Beats
John Cabot