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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
Gettysburg
Bull Moose Party
Hartford Convention
2. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Deists
Shoot-on-sight order
James Fenimore Cooper
To Secure These Rights
3. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Helsinki Accords
Puritans
Mutual Assured Destruction
4. 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
Winston Churchill
Eugenics
Economic Opportunity Act
5. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
Jacques Cartier
Earl Warren
Economic Opportunity Act
6. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Smith-Connolly Act
Bay of Pigs
Axis powers
Atomic Energy Commission
7. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Alger Hiss
Chinese Exclusion Act
Reaganomics
The Awakening
8. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Big stick diplomacy
James Fenimore Cooper
Boxer Rebellion
9. 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.
Students for a Democratic Society
Sedition Amendment
Alien and Sedition Acts
Berlin Wall
10. Nickname given to northerners who moved South during Reconstruction in search of political and economic opportunity. The term was coined by Southern Democrats - who said that these northern opportunists had left home so quickly that they were able to
Andrew Carnegie
Quasi-war
Battle of Britain
Carpetbaggers
11. 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
Popular Front
Atlantic Charter
Gag rule
Winston Churchill
12. 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 -
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Cash-and-carry
Battle of Britain
Black Panthers
13. Lyndon B. Johnson's program for domestic policy. It aimed to achieve racial equality - end poverty - and improve health-care. Johnson pushed a number of laws through Congress early in this presidency - but the plan failed to materialize fully - as th
Bill of Rights
Great Society
Dynamic conservatism
Andrew Carnegie
14. A French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region between 1534 and 1542. He searched for a Northwest Passage - a waterway through which ships could cross the Americas and access Asia. He found no such passage but opened the region up to futu
Jacques Cartier
Civil Rights Act
Henry Clay
Bill of Rights
15. 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.
AFL
Camp David Accords
Dynamic conservatism
William Jennings Bryan
16. 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
Sedition Amendment
William Randolph Hearst
Treaty of Ghent
Assembly line
17. 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.
Horatio Alger
Helsinki Accords
Fidel Castro
Black Thursday
18. 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.
Ross Perot
John Brown
National Origins Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. 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
Anti-federalists
Jane Addams
Bill of Rights
Pendleton Act
20. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Corrupt bargain
Treaty of Ghent
Silent Spring
21. 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.
Samuel Adams
Corrupt bargain
AAA
Great Society
22. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
Treaty of Ghent
Antietam
Bleeding Kansas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. 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
Missouri Compromise
Hartford Convention
Anti-federalists
Central Powers
24. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
National Origins Act
Corrupt bargain
Bull Moose Party
25. 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
AFL
Pendleton Act
Joint-stock companies
Gettysburg
26. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
Jacques Cartier
CCC
Black Panthers
Anti-Saloon League
27. 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
Palmer Raids
Puritans
Brown v Board of Ed
To Secure These Rights
28. 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
Gulf War
William Randolph Hearst
Carpetbaggers
Smith-Connolly Act
29. Coined by Stokely Carmichael - and adopted by Malcolm X - the Black Panthers - and other civil rights groups. The term embodied the fight against oppression and the value of ethnic heritage.
Black Power
Gag rule
Black codes
Black Thursday
30. 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.
Inflation
H. L. Mencken
CIA
Jane Addams
31. 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
Inflation
Bill of Rights
Salutary neglect
Checks and balances
32. 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.
Puritans
A Century of Dishonor
Horatio Alger
Allies
33. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
The Awakening
First Great Awakening
Tripartite Pact
Saddam Hussein
34. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Pendleton Act
American System
Berlin Blockade
35. 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'
Axis powers
Lend-Lease Act
Gulf War
Articles of Confederation
36. 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
Ross Perot
Roger Williams
Central Powers
37. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bill of Rights
Pendleton Act
38. 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).
Smith-Connolly Act
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Edgar Allen Poe
Baby boom
39. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Assembly line
Silent Spring
Andrew Carnegie
John Steinbeck
40. A series of twelve letters published by John Dickinson. The letters denounced the Townsend Duties by demonstrating that many ot the arguments employed against the Stamp Act were valid against the Townsend Duties as well. The letters inspired anti-Bri
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Earl Warren
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
41. 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
Civil Rights Act
Smith Act
Dynamic conservatism
42. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Berlin Wall
Joint-stock companies
Anti-Saloon League
Boston Tea Party
43. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Carpetbaggers
Alger Hiss
Mutual Assured Destruction
44. 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.
Economic Opportunity Act
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Palmer Raids
Tiananmen Sqaure
45. 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
Henry Clay
Boxer Rebellion
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Civil Rights Act
46. 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
Bill of Rights
The Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alien and Sedition Acts
47. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Palmer Raids
Treaty of Ghent
Camp meetings
48. 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
Henry Hudson
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dynamic conservatism
A Century of Dishonor
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
New Look
Bank veto
John Quincy Adams
Ross Perot
50. 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
Treaty of Ghent
Ross Perot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Black Power