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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Alger Hiss
Deists
2. 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
Cash-and-carry
Carpetbaggers
Boris Yeltsin
Samuel Adams
3. 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 -
Northwest Ordinance
Axis powers
Jane Addams
Sacco-Vanzetti case
4. 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.
Silent Spring
Taft-Hartley Act
Boxer Rebellion
J. Edgar Hoover
5. 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."
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
House Un-American Activities Committee
Tiananmen Sqaure
6. 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
Trust
H. L. Mencken
John C. Calhoun
Brown v Board of Ed
7. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Big stick diplomacy
Bank of the United States
Andrew Carnegie
8. 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
Battle of Britain
Nuremburg Trials
Gulf War
The Age of Reason
9. Founded in 1920 - this organization seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals - often by bringing "test cases" to court in order to challange questionable laws. In 1925 - the organization challanged a Christian fundamentalist law in the Sco
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Inflation
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Civil Liberties Union
10. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
To Secure These Rights
Bacon's Rebellion
11. 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
Berlin Wall
Trust
Puritans
Shoot-on-sight order
12. A series of investigations in 1987 exposed evidence that the US had been selling arms to the anti-American government in Iran and using the profits from these sales to secretly and illegally finance the Contras in Nicaragua. (The Contras were a rebel
Stokely Carmichael
Henry Cabot Lodge
Iran-Contra affair
Anti-Imperialist League
13. Son of John Adams and president from 1825 to 1829. As James Monroe's secretary of state - he workerd to expand the nation's borders and authorized the Monroe Doctrine. His presidency was largely ineffectie due to lack of popular support; Congress blo
John Quincy Adams
Boxer Rebellion
Students for a Democratic Society
Mercantilism
14. 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.
Palmer Raids
Smith-Connolly Act
George Bush
American Civil Liberties Union
15. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Pendleton Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ernest Hemingway
16. 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.
John Brown
Detente
Alger Hiss
Ross Perot
17. 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
Pendleton Act
Samuel de Champlain
Carpetbaggers
Bleeding Kansas
18. 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.
Henry Hudson
Leif Ericson
Gettysburg
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
19. 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.
John C. Calhoun
Henry David Thoreau
Jacques Cartier
Missouri Compromise
20. 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.
First Great Awakening
To Secure These Rights
Jimmy Carter
Ross Perot
21. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
The Rosenbergs
Civil Works Administration
Mercantilism
Economic Opportunity Act
22. 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
Albany Plan
Jimmy Carter
Berlin Blockade
Black Thursday
23. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
John Adams
Black Thursday
Committee to Defend America First
Saddam Hussein
24. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Trust
AAA
Baby boom
25. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Sedition Amendment
Salutary neglect
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Jay's Treaty
26. 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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Atlantic Charter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treaty of Greenville
27. 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
Hartford Convention
Tripartite Pact
Peace Corps
Triangular Trade
28. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
CCC
Samuel de Champlain
National Origins Act
Tippecanoe
29. 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
Bill of Rights
Checks and balances
Bacon's Rebellion
Winston Churchill
30. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Samuel de Champlain
Walt Whitman
Peace Corps
Bull Moose Party
31. 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.
CIA
Jimmy Carter
Bacon's Rebellion
Students for a Democratic Society
32. 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
The Awakening
Jane Addams
CIA
Inflation
33. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Detente
Roger Williams
Specie Circular
34. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
John Steinbeck
First Great Awakening
Big stick diplomacy
Axis powers
35. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
James Fenimore Cooper
Black codes
John C. Calhoun
Great Society
36. 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.
John Cabot
Shoot-on-sight order
Civil Works Administration
Trust
37. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Corrupt bargain
John Cabot
38. 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.
National Origins Act
Boxer Rebellion
Berlin Blockade
Jay's Treaty
39. 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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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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Treaty of Ghent
Camp David Accords
Henry David Thoreau
41. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Lend-Lease Act
Ross Perot
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Susan B. Anthony
42. 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
Gettysburg
Leif Ericson
Lost generation
Reaganomics
43. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Peace Corps
Bank of the United States
Triangular Trade
Gulf War
44. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Baby boom
Horatio Alger
Ross Perot
45. 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.
Anti-Imperialist League
Tiananmen Sqaure
Economic Opportunity Act
Camp meetings
46. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Treaty of Ghent
Cash-and-carry
Treaty of Greenville
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
Henry Hudson
First Great Awakening
John C. Calhoun
Battle of Britain
48. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Jane Addams
Samuel Adams
Carpetbaggers
49. 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.
Jane Addams
Roger Williams
Treaty of Ghent
James Buchanan
50. 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
Bay of Pigs
Earl Warren
Winston Churchill
Corrupt bargain