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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Black Panthers
Leif Ericson
James Buchanan
Treaty of Ghent
2. 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
Hartford Convention
Allies
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Trust
3. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Big stick diplomacy
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Leif Ericson
National Origins Act
4. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Mutual Assured Destruction
Checks and balances
Antietam
5. 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.
Silent Spring
Checks and balances
Henry Hudson
Atlantic Charter
6. 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.
Mercantilism
Joint-stock companies
Reaganomics
Camp David Accords
7. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Black codes
Bank veto
Jimmy Carter
8. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Walt Whitman
Anti-Saloon League
Black Thursday
9. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Alger Hiss
Treaty of Greenville
Bull Moose Party
10. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Quasi-war
Trust
Henry Hudson
11. 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
Black Panthers
Gulf War
Winston Churchill
Gettysburg
12. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
Albany Plan
Alger Hiss
Hartford Convention
13. 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
Tippecanoe
The Age of Reason
Winston Churchill
Boxer Rebellion
14. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
John Quincy Adams
Alien and Sedition Acts
15. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Fidel Castro
Allies
16. 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).
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andrew Carnegie
Battle of Britain
17. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Henry David Thoreau
Specie Circular
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Randolph Hearst
18. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
AFL
Salutary neglect
Boston Massacre
Big stick diplomacy
19. 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
Fidel Castro
Lost generation
Dynamic conservatism
Baby boom
20. 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
Cash-and-carry
Allies
Articles of Confederation
Edgar Allen Poe
21. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Axis powers
Earl Warren
22. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
To Secure These Rights
Fidel Castro
Civil Works Administration
23. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Susan B. Anthony
James Buchanan
William Randolph Hearst
24. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mercantilism
Hartford Convention
Puritans
25. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Battle of the Bulge
John Quincy Adams
Atomic Energy Commission
26. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Salutary neglect
Bacon's Rebellion
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
27. 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."
Carpetbaggers
William Jennings Bryan
Silent Spring
Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. 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
Winston Churchill
Walt Whitman
Henry Clay
Boris Yeltsin
29. 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.
Allies
Checks and balances
Carpetbaggers
Treaty of Greenville
30. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Nuremburg Trials
Bank veto
Black Panthers
31. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Northwest Ordinance
Iran-Contra affair
Deists
32. 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
Central Powers
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Great Society
33. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Hartford Convention
John Steinbeck
Black Thursday
John Quincy Adams
34. 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.
Black Panthers
Popular Front
American System
John Cabot
35. Ronald Reagan's economic philosophy which held that a capitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive. Reagan believed that the prosperity of the rich upper class would "trickle down" to the poor.
New Look
George Bush
Popular Front
Reaganomics
36. 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.
Trust
John Cabot
Central Powers
Mutual Assured Destruction
37. 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
Tripartite Pact
Susan B. Anthony
Boris Yeltsin
Camp meetings
38. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
The Awakening
Treaty of Greenville
Tippecanoe
39. 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.
Gettysburg
Allies
Helsinki Accords
Henry David Thoreau
40. 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
National Origins Act
First Great Awakening
Committee to Defend America First
Lend-Lease Act
41. 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
Jimmy Carter
Joint-stock companies
Economic Opportunity Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
42. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
First Great Awakening
Berlin Blockade
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bay of Pigs
43. 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
John C. Calhoun
William Randolph Hearst
Salutary neglect
Bill of Rights
44. Advocated isolationism and opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Committee members urged neutrality - claiming that the US could stand alone regardless of Hitler's advances in Europe.
Popular Front
Gulf War
Palmer Raids
Committee to Defend America First
45. 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
Quasi-war
Big stick diplomacy
Battle of the Bulge
Bay of Pigs
46. 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.
Alien and Sedition Acts
A Century of Dishonor
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Earl Warren
47. 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
Mercantilism
Edgar Allen Poe
Taft-Hartley Act
Missouri Compromise
48. 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
Reaganomics
Ernest Hemingway
Susan B. Anthony
Cuban Missile Crisis
49. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Berlin Blockade
Detente
Henry Hudson
50. 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
Saddam Hussein
Samuel Adams
AFL
Sedition Amendment
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