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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Jacques Cartier
Sedition Amendment
Allies
The Age of Reason
2. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Mercantilism
Battle of the Bulge
Civil Rights Act
3. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Deists
Samuel Adams
Albany Plan
4. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Northwest Ordinance
John Brown
Assembly line
5. 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
Palmer Raids
Articles of Confederation
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. 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
Black Thursday
Civil Rights Act
Boston Tea Party
Edgar Allen Poe
7. 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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8. In June 1948 - the Soviets attempted to cut off Western access to Berlin by blockading all road and rail routes to the city. In response - the US airlifted supplies to the city - a campaign known as "Operation Vittles." The blockade lasted until May
The Beats
The Age of Reason
Economic Opportunity Act
Berlin Blockade
9. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Articles of Confederation
Berlin Wall
James Buchanan
10. 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.
Axis powers
Specie Circular
Roger Williams
Samuel Adams
11. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Helsinki Accords
Cash-and-carry
Quasi-war
12. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Battle of Britain
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Assembly line
Economic Opportunity Act
13. 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.
Quasi-war
Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace Corps
Leif Ericson
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.
To Secure These Rights
Ross Perot
The Feminine Mystique
Berlin Blockade
15. 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
John Brown
Annapolis Convention
Battle of the Bulge
16. 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
Gettysburg
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Camp David Accords
Pendleton Act
17. 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.
Battle of Britain
Students for a Democratic Society
Camp meetings
Palmer Raids
18. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Salutary neglect
Bill of Rights
J. Edgar Hoover
19. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Bull Moose Party
Henry Cabot Lodge
Battle of the Bulge
20. 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
Silent Spring
Salutary neglect
Boxer Rebellion
Triangular Trade
21. 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).
Civil Rights Act
Edgar Allen Poe
Mutual Assured Destruction
Jane Addams
22. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Dynamic conservatism
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.
Salutary neglect
Joint-stock companies
The Beats
Tripartite Pact
24. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Berlin Wall
House Un-American Activities Committee
Pendleton Act
Nuremburg Trials
25. 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
Jane Addams
Civil Rights Act
Jacques Cartier
26. 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.
Jacques Cartier
Big stick diplomacy
Palmer Raids
Camp David Accords
27. 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
Saddam Hussein
Corrupt bargain
John C. Calhoun
Henry Cabot Lodge
28. 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.
Black codes
Andrew Carnegie
Salutary neglect
Corrupt bargain
29. 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.
Black Thursday
Bill of Rights
Civil Works Administration
The Feminine Mystique
30. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Axis powers
Cash-and-carry
Anti-Imperialist League
Black Thursday
31. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Central Powers
Berlin Blockade
John Adams
Mercantilism
32. 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."
Civil Rights Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deists
Samuel Adams
33. 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
Tripartite Pact
Great Society
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Samuel de Champlain
34. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Earl Warren
Henry Cabot Lodge
Quasi-war
Black codes
35. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
William Randolph Hearst
House Un-American Activities Committee
Kansas-Nebraska Act
H. L. Mencken
36. 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.
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
James Fenimore Cooper
Treaty of Ghent
Tiananmen Sqaure
37. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Black Panthers
Cash-and-carry
Samuel de Champlain
38. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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39. 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.
Tippecanoe
Bill of Rights
The Awakening
Gulf War
40. 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.
Popular Front
Black Thursday
Susan B. Anthony
Berlin Blockade
41. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Jane Addams
Bull Moose Party
Gulf War
Checks and balances
42. 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
Carpetbaggers
Northwest Ordinance
Cash-and-carry
Walt Whitman
43. 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
The Rosenbergs
AFL
Jane Addams
Gulf War
44. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Annapolis Convention
Reaganomics
Camp meetings
45. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Smith Act
Winston Churchill
John Steinbeck
46. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
George Bush
Bank of the United States
Assembly line
CIA
47. 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
Boston Tea Party
Roger Williams
John Quincy Adams
Peace Corps
48. 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
Silent Spring
Albany Plan
Taft-Hartley Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
49. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Cabot
Henry Cabot Lodge
Hartford Convention
50. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Boston Massacre
Triangular Trade
Checks and balances