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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.
A Century of Dishonor
Roger Williams
Samuel Adams
Treaty of Ghent
2. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Mercantilism
Reaganomics
Roger Williams
3. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Adams
John Steinbeck
Samuel de Champlain
4. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Annapolis Convention
The Feminine Mystique
The Rosenbergs
5. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Detente
The Age of Reason
Salutary neglect
6. 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
New Look
Boris Yeltsin
Horatio Alger
Triangular Trade
7. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Atlantic Charter
Jay's Treaty
John Cabot
Cash-and-carry
8. 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
AAA
The Beats
Quasi-war
John Quincy Adams
9. 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
Samuel Adams
AFL
Reaganomics
Atlantic Charter
10. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Leif Ericson
House Un-American Activities Committee
Checks and balances
Tripartite Pact
11. 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
Saddam Hussein
Boston Massacre
Fidel Castro
Bull Moose Party
12. 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
Saddam Hussein
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jimmy Carter
Anti-federalists
13. 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
Reaganomics
Cuban Missile Crisis
Samuel Adams
14. 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
Assembly line
Mercantilism
The Awakening
Anti-Imperialist League
15. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Pendleton Act
Inflation
William Jennings Bryan
16. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
Northwest Ordinance
The Awakening
Puritans
17. 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
Berlin Blockade
Iran-Contra affair
Tippecanoe
Trust
18. 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.
Peace Corps
Assembly line
Deists
John Adams
19. 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
Gulf War
Assembly line
Trust
Northwest Ordinance
20. 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
Students for a Democratic Society
First Great Awakening
Great Society
The Beats
21. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Susan B. Anthony
Boston Massacre
Edgar Allen Poe
Kansas-Nebraska Act
22. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Deists
Central Powers
Baby boom
J. Edgar Hoover
23. 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.
Baby boom
The Beats
Battle of Britain
Mutual Assured Destruction
24. 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
Mercantilism
AFL
John Brown
Black Thursday
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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Boston Tea Party
Ernest Hemingway
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
26. 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 Adams
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
James Fenimore Cooper
27. A French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region between 1534 and 1542. He searched for a Northwest Passage - a waterway through which ships could cross the Americas and access Asia. He found no such passage but opened the region up to futu
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jacques Cartier
Gettysburg
Joint-stock companies
28. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Palmer Raids
Bootleggers
Eugenics
Boston Massacre
29. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bank of the United States
CCC
Smith Act
Trust
30. 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
Boston Massacre
Ernest Hemingway
James Fenimore Cooper
New Look
31. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
AFL
Bull Moose Party
32. 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 -
Alger Hiss
Peace Corps
Andrew Carnegie
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
33. 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
AAA
Missouri Compromise
Smith Act
Economic Opportunity Act
34. 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.
Checks and balances
Anti-Saloon League
Black Power
Big stick diplomacy
35. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Jimmy Carter
Boris Yeltsin
Annapolis Convention
36. 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."
American System
Stokely Carmichael
Black Thursday
Carpetbaggers
37. 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
Andrew Carnegie
American Civil Liberties Union
Bill of Rights
Bleeding Kansas
38. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Jacques Cartier
Lend-Lease Act
Civil Works Administration
39. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Quasi-war
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Cuban Missile Crisis
40. 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
Pendleton Act
Puritans
John Cabot
41. 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.
Berlin Wall
Boxer Rebellion
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Edgar Hoover
42. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boxer Rebellion
Berlin Wall
John Cabot
43. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
American System
Salutary neglect
Taft-Hartley Act
44. 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
Camp David Accords
Axis powers
Roger Williams
Taft-Hartley Act
45. 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."
Annapolis Convention
Bacon's Rebellion
John Cabot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. 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
Puritans
William Jennings Bryan
Taft-Hartley Act
Gulf War
47. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Bill of Rights
Bull Moose Party
Berlin Blockade
48. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election - he failed to win the requisite majority and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams for
Henry David Thoreau
To Secure These Rights
Corrupt bargain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
49. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter
Baby boom
Hartford Convention
50. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
House Un-American Activities Committee
Camp meetings
J. Robert Oppenheimer