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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Mercantilism
CCC
Allies
2. 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.
John Adams
Atomic Energy Commission
Allies
CCC
3. 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."
J. Edgar Hoover
Albany Plan
H. L. Mencken
Battle of Britain
4. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Corrupt bargain
CCC
Shoot-on-sight order
Battle of Britain
5. 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
Corrupt bargain
Mercantilism
Palmer Raids
AAA
6. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
A Century of Dishonor
Antietam
George Bush
Bay of Pigs
7. 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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8. The first ten amendments of the Constitution - which guarantee the civil rights of American citizens. Drafted by anti-federalists - including James Madison - to protect individuals from the tyranny they felt the Constitution might permit.
Bill of Rights
Nuremburg Trials
Puritans
Treaty of San Lorenzo
9. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Edgar Hoover
Quasi-war
American Civil Liberties Union
10. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Anti-Saloon League
Popular Front
Earl Warren
Eugenics
11. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
The Rosenbergs
Alien and Sedition Acts
Reaganomics
Walt Whitman
12. 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.
Peace Corps
Corrupt bargain
Mutual Assured Destruction
Henry Hudson
13. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Pendleton Act
Allies
Walt Whitman
14. 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
Eugenics
Bay of Pigs
Economic Opportunity Act
AAA
15. 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
John Steinbeck
Hartford Convention
Deists
George Bush
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.
Central Powers
American System
Salutary neglect
Camp David Accords
17. 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
Lost generation
Inflation
Popular Front
18. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
John Steinbeck
Nuremburg Trials
Mercantilism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Economic Opportunity Act
Jane Addams
Assembly line
20. 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.
Checks and balances
Central Powers
Atomic Energy Commission
Cuban Missile Crisis
21. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Front
Eugenics
Students for a Democratic Society
22. 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
Boston Massacre
Mikhail Gorbachev
To Secure These Rights
Antietam
23. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
The Rosenbergs
John Adams
Samuel de Champlain
24. 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
Jimmy Carter
Bank of the United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big stick diplomacy
25. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
The Awakening
John Cabot
Earl Warren
26. 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
Treaty of Ghent
Central Powers
Lend-Lease Act
Dynamic conservatism
27. Signed in 1975 by Gerald Ford - Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev - and the leaders of thirty-one other states in a promise to solidify European boundaries - respect human rights - and permit freedom of travel.
Puritans
Helsinki Accords
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beats
28. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tripartite Pact
Chinese Exclusion Act
Leif Ericson
29. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
American System
Taft-Hartley Act
30. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Articles of Confederation
National Origins Act
31. 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
Black Power
Chinese Exclusion Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bacon's Rebellion
32. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Fidel Castro
Horatio Alger
Treaty of Ghent
33. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Ross Perot
Tripartite Pact
Camp meetings
Lost generation
34. 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
Pendleton Act
William Randolph Hearst
Lost generation
Brown v Board of Ed
35. 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
Eugenics
Missouri Compromise
Mutual Assured Destruction
Trust
36. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Nuremburg Trials
Mercantilism
Tippecanoe
37. 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
Berlin Blockade
Samuel Adams
Henry Cabot Lodge
38. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Popular Front
Inflation
A Century of Dishonor
39. 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
CCC
Articles of Confederation
Big stick diplomacy
Triangular Trade
40. 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 -
The Rosenbergs
John Brown
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bank of the United States
41. 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.
Black Panthers
Big stick diplomacy
John Brown
James Fenimore Cooper
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.
Civil Works Administration
Reaganomics
Susan B. Anthony
Black Power
43. 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
James Buchanan
Boris Yeltsin
AAA
Triangular Trade
44. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Checks and balances
Civil Rights Act
Quasi-war
Albany Plan
45. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil Works Administration
Bank of the United States
Lost generation
46. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Battle of Britain
Missouri Compromise
Cash-and-carry
Economic Opportunity Act
47. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Bill of Rights
Anti-Imperialist League
Henry Clay
48. 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
Articles of Confederation
The Awakening
Bleeding Kansas
National Origins Act
49. 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
Joint-stock companies
Berlin Wall
John Quincy Adams
Samuel de Champlain
50. 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.
George Bush
Central Powers
Triangular Trade
Articles of Confederation
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