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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
William Randolph Hearst
Edgar Allen Poe
Anti-Imperialist League
The Feminine Mystique
2. 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.
John Steinbeck
Samuel Adams
Ross Perot
Andrew Carnegie
3. 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
Ernest Hemingway
Civil Rights Act
Gulf War
Antietam
4. 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
Triangular Trade
Joint-stock companies
Civil Rights Act
Stokely Carmichael
5. 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
Samuel Adams
Detente
Deists
The Awakening
6. 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
Horatio Alger
Annapolis Convention
Iran-Contra affair
Corrupt bargain
7. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Missouri Compromise
Central Powers
Popular Front
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
William Randolph Hearst
Henry Clay
Taft-Hartley Act
Gulf War
9. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Treaty of Greenville
Bay of Pigs
Bleeding Kansas
Jacques Cartier
10. 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
Puritans
Battle of the Bulge
Sedition Amendment
John C. Calhoun
11. 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
Bull Moose Party
Checks and balances
Berlin Blockade
Brown v Board of Ed
12. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Lend-Lease Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Feminine Mystique
Jane Addams
13. 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.
Deists
Civil Rights Act
The Age of Reason
Joint-stock companies
14. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Susan B. Anthony
Hartford Convention
National Origins Act
15. The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period - the two powers signed treaties limiting nuclear arms productions and opened up economic relations. one of the most famous advocates of this policy was Pre
Bull Moose Party
Anti-Saloon League
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Detente
16. 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.
Quasi-war
Gag rule
Mercantilism
Henry David Thoreau
17. 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.
Carpetbaggers
The Feminine Mystique
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bleeding Kansas
18. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
William Randolph Hearst
James Buchanan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tripartite Pact
19. 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
Anti-federalists
Treaty of Ghent
Eugenics
Bank veto
20. 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.
Smith Act
Sedition Amendment
National Origins Act
Jay's Treaty
21. 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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
American System
Specie Circular
Iran-Contra affair
22. 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.
Tippecanoe
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Hudson
Camp meetings
23. 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
Lost generation
Battle of the Bulge
Iran-Contra affair
Cuban Missile Crisis
24. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Deists
Atlantic Charter
25. 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
AAA
Camp meetings
Mutual Assured Destruction
Winston Churchill
26. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Economic Opportunity Act
Roger Williams
Henry Hudson
27. 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
Gulf War
Stokely Carmichael
Alien and Sedition Acts
To Secure These Rights
28. 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
John C. Calhoun
Edgar Allen Poe
Sacco-Vanzetti case
29. 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
Trust
Tippecanoe
Committee to Defend America First
Treaty of San Lorenzo
30. 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.
AFL
Anti-Imperialist League
Saddam Hussein
Jimmy Carter
31. 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
Annapolis Convention
Edgar Allen Poe
Brown v Board of Ed
32. Husband and wife who - in 1950 - were accused of spying for the Soviets. They countered the accusation on the grounds that their Jewish background and leftist beliefs made them easy targets for persecution. In a trial closely followed by the American
Deists
The Feminine Mystique
Edgar Allen Poe
The Rosenbergs
33. 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
Smith-Connolly Act
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Age of Reason
Susan B. Anthony
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
Joint-stock companies
Tripartite Pact
Anti-federalists
First Great Awakening
35. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
CCC
Iran-Contra affair
The Rosenbergs
36. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
Gettysburg
The Feminine Mystique
Bull Moose Party
37. 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
Camp David Accords
Jane Addams
Black Power
38. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Winston Churchill
James Fenimore Cooper
Puritans
39. Formed in the absence of support form the British crown - these companies accrued funding for colonization through the sale of public stock. They dominated English colonization throughout the seventeenth century.
Hartford Convention
Joint-stock companies
CIA
Henry David Thoreau
40. 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.
Popular Front
Anti-Imperialist League
John Adams
Specie Circular
41. 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.
Hartford Convention
Bleeding Kansas
Horatio Alger
Economic Opportunity Act
42. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
Jane Addams
Treaty of Ghent
Bill of Rights
43. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Boston Massacre
Tripartite Pact
Black Thursday
44. 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
Smith Act
James Buchanan
Bleeding Kansas
Reaganomics
45. Submitted by Benjamin Franklin to the 1754 gathering of colonial delegates in Albany - New York. The plan called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. Although the delegates in Albany approved the plan - the col
Fidel Castro
Annapolis Convention
Albany Plan
Edgar Allen Poe
46. 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
New Look
Gulf War
Albany Plan
Lend-Lease Act
47. 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
Winston Churchill
Students for a Democratic Society
Salutary neglect
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
48. 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
Mercantilism
Axis powers
Henry Hudson
Dynamic conservatism
49. 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
George Bush
Berlin Blockade
Boris Yeltsin
CIA
50. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Edgar Allen Poe
Horatio Alger
Mikhail Gorbachev