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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.
Treaty of Ghent
Jacques Cartier
Trust
Dynamic conservatism
2. 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.
CIA
The Beats
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Northwest Ordinance
3. 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
Detente
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Taft-Hartley Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
4. 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
Anti-Saloon League
Lend-Lease Act
Mercantilism
5. 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
Battle of Britain
Ross Perot
George Bush
6. 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
Stokely Carmichael
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Carpetbaggers
Brown v Board of Ed
7. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Earl Warren
Mutual Assured Destruction
Axis powers
8. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Battle of the Bulge
A Century of Dishonor
Henry David Thoreau
9. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Black Panthers
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
10. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Jay's Treaty
New Look
11. The centerpiece of a congressional effort to restrict union activity. The act - passed in 1947 - banned certain union practices and allowed the president to call for an eighty-day cooling off period to delay strikes thought to pose risks to national
J. Edgar Hoover
Taft-Hartley Act
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Beats
12. 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.
CCC
Students for a Democratic Society
Henry David Thoreau
Winston Churchill
13. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
John Adams
J. Edgar Hoover
H. L. Mencken
14. 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.
Economic Opportunity Act
Bank of the United States
John Steinbeck
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
15. 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
Atlantic Charter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Berlin Wall
Edgar Allen Poe
16. 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
James Buchanan
Lost generation
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
17. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Leif Ericson
Camp meetings
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Great Society
18. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Anti-Imperialist League
H. L. Mencken
Big stick diplomacy
19. 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
Missouri Compromise
Gulf War
Atomic Energy Commission
Berlin Blockade
20. 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
Detente
Hartford Convention
Jacques Cartier
Carpetbaggers
21. 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
Henry Clay
Treaty of Ghent
Trust
Deists
22. 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.
Assembly line
Battle of the Bulge
Silent Spring
Ross Perot
23. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Iran-Contra affair
Triangular Trade
Chinese Exclusion Act
Students for a Democratic Society
24. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Inflation
Walt Whitman
John C. Calhoun
25. 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
Black Power
Cash-and-carry
Trust
Mutual Assured Destruction
26. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Gettysburg
Sedition Amendment
Civil Rights Act
27. 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
AAA
John C. Calhoun
Triangular Trade
28. 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.
Ernest Hemingway
Smith-Connolly Act
American Civil Liberties Union
Bank veto
29. 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
Carpetbaggers
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lost generation
30. 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
Boston Tea Party
Anti-Saloon League
Silent Spring
Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
Inflation
Black Power
Anti-federalists
32. 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
Specie Circular
Camp David Accords
Salutary neglect
New Look
33. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lend-Lease Act
Smith-Connolly Act
34. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Reaganomics
William Randolph Hearst
Bacon's Rebellion
35. 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
Peace Corps
Berlin Wall
Boxer Rebellion
Jimmy Carter
36. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Mercantilism
Earl Warren
Battle of Britain
37. 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
Allies
Lend-Lease Act
Smith-Connolly Act
Tippecanoe
38. 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
Anti-Saloon League
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
39. 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
Boston Massacre
Horatio Alger
The Feminine Mystique
The Awakening
40. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Beats
Lend-Lease Act
41. 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
John Quincy Adams
Bay of Pigs
Albany Plan
Susan B. Anthony
42. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
First Great Awakening
Boris Yeltsin
Henry David Thoreau
New Look
43. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Black Thursday
Missouri Compromise
Northwest Ordinance
44. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
Jay's Treaty
Jacques Cartier
Roger Williams
Sedition Amendment
45. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Palmer Raids
William Jennings Bryan
Black Power
Bootleggers
46. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Hartford Convention
Bleeding Kansas
Sedition Amendment
Bay of Pigs
47. 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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48. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
Samuel Adams
Mutual Assured Destruction
Camp David Accords
AFL
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
Baby boom
Puritans
Boris Yeltsin
The Feminine Mystique
50. 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
Roger Williams
Silent Spring
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Palmer Raids