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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Nuremburg Trials
To Secure These Rights
Brown v Board of Ed
Quasi-war
2. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
CIA
Eugenics
Carpetbaggers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. 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
Boston Tea Party
Bank of the United States
Black Power
AFL
4. 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
Boston Massacre
American Civil Liberties Union
Anti-Saloon League
5. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Treaty of Greenville
Popular Front
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
6. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Quasi-war
Fidel Castro
Salutary neglect
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
Missouri Compromise
Smith Act
Axis powers
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
8. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Cuban Missile Crisis
John Quincy Adams
Helsinki Accords
Axis powers
9. 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
Gulf War
Baby boom
Inflation
Puritans
10. 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
Deists
Allies
Berlin Wall
Earl Warren
11. 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.
Bank veto
Boris Yeltsin
Bootleggers
Committee to Defend America First
12. 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.
William Jennings Bryan
Bank of the United States
House Un-American Activities Committee
Earl Warren
13. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jay's Treaty
Andrew Carnegie
14. 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
Boston Massacre
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Lost generation
Specie Circular
15. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Hartford Convention
Smith Act
Atomic Energy Commission
J. Robert Oppenheimer
16. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Black Thursday
John Steinbeck
Deists
17. 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.
J. Edgar Hoover
Treaty of Ghent
Black Panthers
Triangular Trade
18. 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
Gag rule
Battle of Britain
Jimmy Carter
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
19. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Anti-Imperialist League
20. 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
Stokely Carmichael
Tiananmen Sqaure
AAA
Brown v Board of Ed
21. 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.
CCC
Treaty of Ghent
American System
Baby boom
22. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Jay's Treaty
Henry David Thoreau
John Brown
23. 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
John C. Calhoun
Checks and balances
William Jennings Bryan
John Adams
24. 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
Lost generation
Sedition Amendment
Iran-Contra affair
Brown v Board of Ed
25. 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
The Rosenbergs
Cash-and-carry
Roger Williams
Salutary neglect
26. 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
Popular Front
Trust
Helsinki Accords
Alger Hiss
27. 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 Quincy Adams
Great Society
Puritans
The Age of Reason
28. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Detente
James Fenimore Cooper
New Look
29. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
James Buchanan
Bacon's Rebellion
Anti-Saloon League
John Steinbeck
30. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Anti-Imperialist League
Hartford Convention
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Mercantilism
31. A religious zealot and an extreme abolitionist who believed God had ordained him to end slavery. In 1856 - he led an attack against pro-slavery government officials - killing five and sparking months of violence that earned the territory the name "Bl
John Brown
Economic Opportunity Act
Treaty of Greenville
Missouri Compromise
32. 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
Specie Circular
First Great Awakening
Battle of Britain
Black Power
33. 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.
Puritans
Camp David Accords
Gag rule
Henry Cabot Lodge
34. Longtime government employee who - in 1948 - was accused by Time editor Whitaker Chambers of spying for the USSR. After a series of highly publicized hearings and trials - he was convicted of perjury in 1950 and sentenced to five years imprisonment -
Samuel de Champlain
Bank of the United States
Alger Hiss
Hartford Convention
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
Berlin Wall
Central Powers
Corrupt bargain
Berlin Blockade
36. 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.
John Quincy Adams
American System
J. Edgar Hoover
Tiananmen Sqaure
37. 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'
Gulf War
Bull Moose Party
Atlantic Charter
American System
38. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Antietam
Henry Cabot Lodge
39. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
James Buchanan
The Age of Reason
Great Society
40. 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
Gettysburg
Earl Warren
Anti-federalists
Triangular Trade
41. 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
Jimmy Carter
CIA
Smith Act
Tippecanoe
42. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Silent Spring
Nuremburg Trials
Cuban Missile Crisis
43. 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
Atlantic Charter
John Steinbeck
Gag rule
The Awakening
44. Nonconformist writers such as Allan Ginsberg - the author of Howl (1956) - and Jack Kerouac - who penned On the Road (1957). They rejected uniform middle-class culture and sought to overturn the sexual and social conservatism of the period.
Central Powers
The Awakening
The Beats
Cash-and-carry
45. 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.
Samuel Adams
Allies
Trust
Smith Act
46. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Cuban Missile Crisis
Atlantic Charter
Jane Addams
47. Coined by Stokely Carmichael - and adopted by Malcolm X - the Black Panthers - and other civil rights groups. The term embodied the fight against oppression and the value of ethnic heritage.
Taft-Hartley Act
Palmer Raids
Black Power
The Rosenbergs
48. 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
Samuel Adams
Mercantilism
Allies
Lost generation
49. A group of zealous Chinese nationalists terrorized foreigners and Chinese Christians - capturing Beijing (Peking) in June 1900 and threatening European and American interests in Chinese markets. The US committed 2 -500 men to an international force t
Annapolis Convention
Saddam Hussein
Battle of Britain
Boxer Rebellion
50. 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
Committee to Defend America First
John Brown
The Beats
Big stick diplomacy