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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Helsinki Accords
Leif Ericson
Sacco-Vanzetti case
2. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Deists
Stokely Carmichael
Reaganomics
J. Edgar Hoover
3. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Eugenics
Lend-Lease Act
AFL
4. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Black Thursday
Economic Opportunity Act
Edgar Allen Poe
5. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Sedition Amendment
CCC
Camp meetings
6. 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.
Earl Warren
Bill of Rights
George Bush
Salutary neglect
7. 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.
Silent Spring
Bank of the United States
The Awakening
Treaty of Greenville
8. 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.
Ross Perot
Fidel Castro
Henry Hudson
Earl Warren
9. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Boston Massacre
Pendleton Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
10. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reaganomics
Samuel de Champlain
Silent Spring
11. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Detente
Assembly line
Anti-Saloon League
John Brown
12. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
William Jennings Bryan
The Feminine Mystique
Peace Corps
13. 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.
Trust
Smith Act
Ross Perot
Boxer Rebellion
14. 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.
H. L. Mencken
Puritans
Iran-Contra affair
National Origins Act
15. 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
Dynamic conservatism
John Brown
Berlin Wall
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
16. 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.
Tippecanoe
Winston Churchill
Pendleton Act
The Awakening
17. 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.
Missouri Compromise
Mutual Assured Destruction
Jimmy Carter
AFL
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
Eugenics
Boris Yeltsin
Black Power
Black codes
19. 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
Lost generation
Salutary neglect
The Beats
20. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Iran-Contra affair
Boston Tea Party
New Look
21. 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.
Reaganomics
Central Powers
James Fenimore Cooper
Shoot-on-sight order
22. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Popular Front
The Age of Reason
Atlantic Charter
Mercantilism
23. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Hartford Convention
Bank of the United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
The Awakening
24. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism - these people believed that God - like a celestial clockmaker - had created a perfect universe and then stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws.
Silent Spring
Deists
Bootleggers
Economic Opportunity Act
25. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Stokely Carmichael
Cash-and-carry
Boston Massacre
First Great Awakening
26. 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
Annapolis Convention
Checks and balances
Leif Ericson
Economic Opportunity 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
A Century of Dishonor
Antietam
Anti-federalists
28. 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
Henry Hudson
Joint-stock companies
Jacques Cartier
Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Treaty of Ghent
AFL
Chinese Exclusion Act
Edgar Allen Poe
30. 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).
Jay's Treaty
Corrupt bargain
Edgar Allen Poe
The Beats
31. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
American System
Bacon's Rebellion
Central Powers
John Cabot
32. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Popular Front
Berlin Wall
Roger Williams
Jane Addams
33. 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
Treaty of Ghent
First Great Awakening
J. Edgar Hoover
Atlantic Charter
34. 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.
Baby boom
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Hudson
Boston Tea Party
35. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Lost generation
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brown v Board of Ed
Gag rule
36. 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
American System
Central Powers
Boston Massacre
37. 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
Saddam Hussein
Bacon's Rebellion
Allies
Samuel de Champlain
38. 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
Palmer Raids
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big stick diplomacy
Boxer Rebellion
39. 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
Mutual Assured Destruction
Bull Moose Party
Civil Rights Act
New Look
40. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Susan B. Anthony
John Cabot
George Bush
41. Andrew Jackon's 1832 veto of the proposed charter renewal for the Second Bank of the United States. The veto marked the beginning of Jackon's five-year battle against the national bank.
Earl Warren
Helsinki Accords
Bank veto
Black Thursday
42. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Assembly line
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
New Look
43. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Antietam
Bank veto
The Age of Reason
John Adams
44. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Smith Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Leif Ericson
45. 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.
Mercantilism
Walt Whitman
William Jennings Bryan
Atomic Energy Commission
46. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
The Awakening
The Rosenbergs
47. 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
Allies
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Horatio Alger
48. 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
Battle of the Bulge
A Century of Dishonor
Carpetbaggers
Trust
49. Leader of a group of senators known as "reservationists" during the 1919 debate over the League of Nations. He and his followers supported US membership in the League only if major revisions were made to the covenant. President Wilson - however - ref
Bill of Rights
John Quincy Adams
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Cabot
50. In 1962 - a year after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion - the US government learned that Soviet missile bases were being constructed in Cuba. President JFK demanded that the USSR stop shipping military equipment to Cuba and remove the bases. US forces
Cuban Missile Crisis
AAA
Battle of the Bulge
Camp meetings
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