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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Corrupt bargain
Battle of Britain
J. Edgar Hoover
John Cabot
2. 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.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Black Thursday
Baby boom
Treaty of Ghent
3. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Axis powers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leif Ericson
4. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Saddam Hussein
Boxer Rebellion
Black Power
Mutual Assured Destruction
5. 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.
Alien and Sedition Acts
A Century of Dishonor
Cash-and-carry
William Jennings Bryan
6. 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
Saddam Hussein
Assembly line
H. L. Mencken
Andrew Carnegie
7. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
George Bush
Missouri Compromise
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
Boxer Rebellion
Roger Williams
The Beats
9. President Eisenhower's philosophy of government. He called it this to distinguish it from the Republican administrations of the past - which he deemed backword-looking and complacent. He was determined to work with the Democratic Party rather than ag
Bull Moose Party
Dynamic conservatism
Henry David Thoreau
Bay of Pigs
10. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
A Century of Dishonor
Checks and balances
Andrew Carnegie
John Steinbeck
11. 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
Allies
Black Power
Bull Moose Party
John Brown
12. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Berlin Blockade
Gag rule
Checks and balances
Fidel Castro
13. 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.
AFL
Camp meetings
Ross Perot
Brown v Board of Ed
14. 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
Hartford Convention
Taft-Hartley Act
The Awakening
New Look
15. 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.
National Origins Act
William Jennings Bryan
Anti-Imperialist League
Tiananmen Sqaure
16. 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 -
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stokely Carmichael
Alger Hiss
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
Committee to Defend America First
New Look
Gettysburg
Bay of Pigs
18. President of the Russian Republic in 1991 - when hard-line Communists attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. After helping to repel these hard-liners - he and the leaders of the other Soviet republics declared an end to the USSR - forcing Gorbache
Boris Yeltsin
Boston Tea Party
Bank of the United States
Carpetbaggers
19. 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.
New Look
John Adams
Pendleton Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
20. 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
Missouri Compromise
Big stick diplomacy
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Smith-Connolly Act
21. 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.
Battle of Britain
The Feminine Mystique
Cash-and-carry
AAA
22. An English explorer sponsered by the Dutch East India Company. In 1609 - he sailed up the river that now bears his name - nearly reaching present-day Albany. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.
Smith Act
Iran-Contra affair
Berlin Wall
Henry Hudson
23. 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
Lost generation
A Century of Dishonor
Bacon's Rebellion
24. Conducted during the summer and fall of 1940. In preparation for an amphibious assault - Germans launched airstrikes on London. Hitlers hoped the continuous bombing would destroy British industry and hurt morale - but the British successfully avoided
Jacques Cartier
Hartford Convention
Walt Whitman
Battle of Britain
25. 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
Sedition Amendment
Henry David Thoreau
James Buchanan
26. One of the best known writers of the 1920s' "lost generation." An expatriate - he produced a number of famous works during the 1920s - including The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). A member of the Popular Front - he fought in the
Deists
Ernest Hemingway
Mikhail Gorbachev
Committee to Defend America First
27. 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
Bleeding Kansas
The Rosenbergs
Henry Hudson
Lend-Lease Act
28. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Atlantic Charter
Susan B. Anthony
Annapolis Convention
Chinese Exclusion Act
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horatio Alger
Earl Warren
Specie Circular
30. 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
Albany Plan
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Clay
Jacques Cartier
31. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Andrew Carnegie
Anti-Imperialist League
Tiananmen Sqaure
Black codes
32. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Sedition Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Trust
33. 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
Triangular Trade
William Jennings Bryan
Deists
Jimmy Carter
34. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Treaty of Ghent
Black Thursday
Nathaniel Hawthorne
J. Robert Oppenheimer
35. 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
Roger Williams
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bacon's Rebellion
Big stick diplomacy
36. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Taft-Hartley Act
Leif Ericson
Triangular Trade
37. 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.
Cash-and-carry
Hartford Convention
Samuel Adams
Walt Whitman
38. 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.
Ernest Hemingway
American Civil Liberties Union
Economic Opportunity Act
Horatio Alger
39. 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
Winston Churchill
Inflation
Reaganomics
Axis powers
40. 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
Triangular Trade
Detente
Baby boom
Winston Churchill
41. 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.
Central Powers
Black codes
Carpetbaggers
Northwest Ordinance
42. 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.
Pendleton Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Civil Works Administration
43. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Bleeding Kansas
Mercantilism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Anti-Saloon League
44. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Bill of Rights
Smith Act
Camp David Accords
45. 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
Smith Act
Black Panthers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Assembly line
46. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Ross Perot
Edgar Allen Poe
Brown v Board of Ed
47. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Bleeding Kansas
Baby boom
Allies
Treaty of San Lorenzo
48. 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.
Deists
Tippecanoe
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Awakening
49. 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
Black codes
Allies
Salutary neglect
William Jennings Bryan
50. 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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Bill of Rights
Battle of Britain
John Adams
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