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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
Lend-Lease Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
John Cabot
Specie Circular
2. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
Pendleton Act
Roger Williams
Jimmy Carter
3. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Bootleggers
Bank of the United States
John Adams
Black Thursday
4. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Central Powers
To Secure These Rights
Tripartite Pact
Inflation
5. 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.
Camp meetings
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Horatio Alger
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
6. 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
Battle of the Bulge
James Fenimore Cooper
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Mercantilism
7. 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.
CIA
Mutual Assured Destruction
Tiananmen Sqaure
House Un-American Activities Committee
8. The alleged leader of a group of Vikings who sailed to the eastern coast of Canada and attempted - unsuccessfully - to colonize the area around the year 1000- nearly 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
Leif Ericson
Bootleggers
Lend-Lease Act
To Secure These Rights
9. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Cabot
American Civil Liberties Union
Dynamic conservatism
Lend-Lease Act
10. 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).
Annapolis Convention
Edgar Allen Poe
American Civil Liberties Union
Boris Yeltsin
11. 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
Popular Front
Sedition Amendment
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Smith Act
12. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Economic Opportunity Act
Albany Plan
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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Deists
Black Power
14. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Missouri Compromise
William Randolph Hearst
Bull Moose Party
Jane Addams
15. 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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16. 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
Articles of Confederation
James Buchanan
Battle of Britain
Albany Plan
17. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Salutary neglect
James Buchanan
Ross Perot
18. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Black Power
Students for a Democratic Society
Inflation
Bootleggers
19. 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.
John Adams
Puritans
James Buchanan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
20. 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.
Trust
Civil Works Administration
Bull Moose Party
John Quincy Adams
21. 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'
Tiananmen Sqaure
Anti-Imperialist League
Gulf War
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
22. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Deists
Bank of the United States
Boston Massacre
First Great Awakening
23. 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."
Roger Williams
Bill of Rights
H. L. Mencken
Boston Massacre
24. Founded in 1920 - this organization seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals - often by bringing "test cases" to court in order to challange questionable laws. In 1925 - the organization challanged a Christian fundamentalist law in the Sco
American Civil Liberties Union
To Secure These Rights
Salutary neglect
Tripartite Pact
25. A protest against the 1773 Tea Act - which allowed Britain to use the profits from selling tea to pay the salaries of royal governers. In December 1773 - Samuel Adams gathered Boston residents and warned them of the consequences of the Tea Act. Follo
Cash-and-carry
Boris Yeltsin
Henry Clay
Boston Tea Party
26. 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
Jay's Treaty
Carpetbaggers
Tippecanoe
Deists
27. 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
Anti-federalists
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Tripartite Pact
28. 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.
AFL
Popular Front
Students for a Democratic Society
Gag rule
29. 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
Axis powers
Gettysburg
John Steinbeck
30. In September 1939 - FDR persuaded Congress to pass a new - amended Neutrality Act - which allowed warring nations to purchase arms from the US as long as they paid in cash and carried the arms away on their own ships. This program allowed the US to a
Deists
Edgar Allen Poe
Joint-stock companies
Cash-and-carry
31. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Pendleton Act
William Randolph Hearst
Atomic Energy Commission
Saddam Hussein
32. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Gag rule
Silent Spring
Smith-Connolly Act
Central Powers
33. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost generation
Smith Act
34. 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
Inflation
AFL
Quasi-war
William Randolph Hearst
35. 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.
Camp meetings
Axis powers
Black codes
Central Powers
36. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Clay
CIA
37. 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.
Articles of Confederation
CIA
Battle of Britain
Helsinki Accords
38. 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
Camp David Accords
Economic Opportunity Act
Sedition Amendment
The Rosenbergs
39. 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
Leif Ericson
Samuel Adams
AFL
Big stick diplomacy
40. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
John C. Calhoun
Allies
41. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
William Randolph Hearst
American System
Detente
42. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
AAA
To Secure These Rights
Bill of Rights
43. 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."
CCC
Roger Williams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allies
44. 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.
Specie Circular
Black Thursday
Tippecanoe
Popular Front
45. 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
John Adams
Bull Moose Party
Brown v Board of Ed
Allies
46. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Jimmy Carter
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
Baby boom
47. 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
Gag rule
Sedition Amendment
The Age of Reason
Gettysburg
48. 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.
Shoot-on-sight order
The Age of Reason
Civil Works Administration
Bootleggers
49. Delegates from five states met in Annapolis in September 1786 to discuss interstate commerce. However - discussions of weaknesses in the government led them to suggest to Congress a new convention to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Palmer Raids
The Feminine Mystique
Annapolis Convention
Specie Circular
50. 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
Quasi-war
Students for a Democratic Society
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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