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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. The largest battle of the Civil War. Widely considered to be the war's turning point - the battle marked the Union's first major victory in the East. The three-day campaign - from July 1 to 4 - 1863 - resulted in an unprecedented 51 -000 total casual
Northwest Ordinance
Gettysburg
Horatio Alger
Tripartite Pact
2. 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
Bay of Pigs
Battle of the Bulge
Susan B. Anthony
3. 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
Lost generation
Articles of Confederation
Gettysburg
Jimmy Carter
4. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Nuremburg Trials
Atlantic Charter
Baby boom
CIA
5. 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.
First Great Awakening
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jimmy Carter
Northwest Ordinance
6. 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.
The Awakening
Inflation
Andrew Carnegie
Mikhail Gorbachev
7. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
Nuremburg Trials
Earl Warren
Lost generation
National Origins Act
8. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Ross Perot
William Randolph Hearst
CIA
9. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
George Bush
Berlin Wall
Big stick diplomacy
Quasi-war
10. 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
Great Society
Salutary neglect
Black Panthers
11. 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.
Stokely Carmichael
Economic Opportunity Act
CIA
Shoot-on-sight order
12. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nuremburg Trials
Inflation
13. A fiction writer who gained popularity in the 1840s for his horrific tales. He published many famous stories - including "The Raven" (1844) and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
Bay of Pigs
Edgar Allen Poe
Corrupt bargain
Alger Hiss
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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Black Thursday
James Buchanan
Specie Circular
15. 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
Jay's Treaty
Henry Cabot Lodge
Battle of the Bulge
Susan B. Anthony
16. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leif Ericson
Committee to Defend America First
Antietam
17. 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
Nuremburg Trials
House Un-American Activities Committee
Winston Churchill
Jay's Treaty
18. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Lost generation
Samuel Adams
Cuban Missile Crisis
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
Andrew Carnegie
Detente
William Jennings Bryan
Great Society
20. 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
Bull Moose Party
John Quincy Adams
Tripartite Pact
American Civil Liberties Union
21. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
A Century of Dishonor
J. Edgar Hoover
Ross Perot
Susan B. Anthony
22. 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
John Steinbeck
Roger Williams
Eugenics
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
23. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Camp David Accords
Susan B. Anthony
Great Society
24. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Gag rule
House Un-American Activities Committee
New Look
25. 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
John Steinbeck
Smith Act
Northwest Ordinance
Cuban Missile Crisis
26. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Berlin Wall
Henry Cabot Lodge
Civil Rights Act
27. 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
Committee to Defend America First
Checks and balances
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
28. The English government's policy of not enforcing certain trade laws it imposed upon the American colonies throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The purpose of this policy was largely to ensure the loyalty of the colonies in
Jacques Cartier
First Great Awakening
Pendleton Act
Salutary neglect
29. 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
Jane Addams
Stokely Carmichael
Henry Clay
30. 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'
Treaty of Greenville
Camp David Accords
John Adams
Gulf War
31. 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.
Palmer Raids
Tiananmen Sqaure
Smith-Connolly Act
Economic Opportunity Act
32. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Berlin Wall
Nuremburg Trials
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Battle of the Bulge
33. Founded in 1886 - this organization sought to organize craft unions into a federation. The loose structure of the organization differed from its rival - the Knights of Labor - in that it allowed individual unions to remain autonomous. Eventually the
AFL
Gulf War
To Secure These Rights
Edgar Allen Poe
34. 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
First Great Awakening
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sedition Amendment
Mikhail Gorbachev
35. 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
Helsinki Accords
CCC
George Bush
Trust
36. 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.
Berlin Blockade
John Adams
John Cabot
Students for a Democratic Society
37. 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
The Rosenbergs
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Corrupt bargain
Detente
38. 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
Helsinki Accords
AAA
Big stick diplomacy
First Great Awakening
39. 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
Gettysburg
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Big stick diplomacy
Ernest Hemingway
40. 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
The Feminine Mystique
American System
Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Saloon League
41. 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.
Silent Spring
Treaty of Ghent
Winston Churchill
CIA
42. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Pendleton Act
Gulf War
John Cabot
43. During ratification - these people opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the federal government too much political - economic - and military control. They instead advocated a decentralized governmental structure that granted the most p
Berlin Blockade
Fidel Castro
Anti-federalists
Ross Perot
44. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Lend-Lease Act
Economic Opportunity Act
John Cabot
45. 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
Northwest Ordinance
The Feminine Mystique
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. 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
Berlin Blockade
Camp David Accords
John C. Calhoun
Deists
47. 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
First Great Awakening
Lend-Lease Act
John Brown
Mercantilism
48. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Walt Whitman
Andrew Carnegie
Bank of the United States
Fidel Castro
49. 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.
Camp meetings
Smith Act
Hartford Convention
The Feminine Mystique
50. 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."
Jimmy Carter
Allies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
H. L. Mencken