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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Susan B. Anthony
CCC
Taft-Hartley Act
Bill of Rights
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.
Walt Whitman
Peace Corps
Samuel Adams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Horatio Alger
Quasi-war
James Buchanan
4. 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.
Brown v Board of Ed
Ross Perot
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Big stick diplomacy
5. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Chinese Exclusion Act
John Adams
Treaty of Greenville
Jane Addams
6. Religious revivals on the frontier during the Second Great Awakening. Hundreds or even thousands of people- members of various dominations- met to hear speeches on repentance and sign hymns.
Tippecanoe
Camp meetings
Alger Hiss
Bank veto
7. 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.
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Henry Hudson
John Steinbeck
Hartford Convention
8. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Samuel Adams
Bull Moose Party
Andrew Carnegie
9. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Gettysburg
Samuel de Champlain
Quasi-war
10. 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
Saddam Hussein
American Civil Liberties Union
Boston Massacre
Alien and Sedition Acts
11. 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
AAA
A Century of Dishonor
Salutary neglect
John Cabot
12. 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
Boris Yeltsin
The Beats
H. L. Mencken
The Age of Reason
13. 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
Cash-and-carry
Allies
American System
Puritans
14. 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.
Baby boom
The Feminine Mystique
Treaty of Greenville
The Rosenbergs
15. 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
The Awakening
Bank veto
Jimmy Carter
Walt Whitman
16. Democratic candidate for president in 1896. His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator - he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president in
Berlin Wall
Students for a Democratic Society
William Jennings Bryan
Black Power
17. 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.
William Randolph Hearst
Cash-and-carry
Leif Ericson
Henry David Thoreau
18. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Antietam
Gettysburg
Black codes
19. 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
AFL
Helsinki Accords
Deists
Kansas-Nebraska Act
20. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Triangular Trade
Anti-Imperialist League
Peace Corps
Jane Addams
21. 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
John Brown
Stokely Carmichael
John Quincy Adams
Great Society
22. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Boston Massacre
John Cabot
23. 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
Jacques Cartier
Dynamic conservatism
Economic Opportunity Act
24. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Roger Williams
Tippecanoe
Bay of Pigs
25. Adopted in 1777 during the Revolutionary War. They established the first limited central government of the US - reserving most powers for the individual states. However they didn't grant enough federal power to manage the country's budget or maintain
Articles of Confederation
Great Society
Detente
Boxer Rebellion
26. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boxer Rebellion
Allies
27. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
Carpetbaggers
Black Panthers
Nuremburg Trials
Bootleggers
28. The popular name for the Kansas Territory in 1856 after abolitionist John Brown led a massacre at a pro-slavery camp - setting off waves of violence. Brown's massacre was in protest to the recent establishment of Kansas as a slave state. Pro-slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Carpetbaggers
Central Powers
Detente
29. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Assembly line
First Great Awakening
Leif Ericson
30. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Black Thursday
Gag rule
31. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Fidel Castro
The Beats
Horatio Alger
Tripartite Pact
32. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Works Administration
Bootleggers
William Randolph Hearst
33. 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
Gag rule
Eugenics
H. L. Mencken
Trust
34. 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.
William Jennings Bryan
Northwest Ordinance
Gettysburg
Mercantilism
35. 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
Camp meetings
Gettysburg
Specie Circular
Cuban Missile Crisis
36. 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
Axis powers
Tiananmen Sqaure
Henry Cabot Lodge
American Civil Liberties Union
37. 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
Black Panthers
Assembly line
Nuremburg Trials
38. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Puritans
Baby boom
39. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
Treaty of Greenville
Baby boom
Berlin Wall
40. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael
Boris Yeltsin
John Adams
American Civil Liberties Union
41. 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.
Albany Plan
Lend-Lease Act
Committee to Defend America First
Bay of Pigs
42. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Baby boom
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Berlin Wall
43. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Albany Plan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boston Massacre
44. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
Henry Clay
Boston Massacre
Treaty of Greenville
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45. A Scottish immigrant who in 1901 founded Carnegie Steel - then the world's largest corporation. In addition to being an entrepreneur and industrialist - he was a philanthropist who donated more than $300 million to charity during his lifetime.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Andrew Carnegie
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Detente
46. 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
Jane Addams
Bank veto
Pendleton Act
47. America's second president - served from 1797 to 1801. A federalist - he supported a powerful centralized government. His most notable actions in office were the undertakng of the quasi-war with France and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Brown
John Adams
William Jennings Bryan
Sedition Amendment
48. 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.
Smith Act
Tripartite Pact
Bill of Rights
John Brown
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
Bacon's Rebellion
Black Panthers
Bank of the United States
Boris Yeltsin
50. 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
Gettysburg
Henry David Thoreau
Specie Circular
Anti-federalists