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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Allies
Samuel Adams
Trust
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
2. 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
Bleeding Kansas
Battle of the Bulge
Carpetbaggers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
3. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Henry David Thoreau
Treaty of Greenville
4. 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
Walt Whitman
William Jennings Bryan
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. 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
Triangular Trade
Pendleton Act
Annapolis Convention
Alien and Sedition Acts
6. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Gulf War
Bacon's Rebellion
Helsinki Accords
7. 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
Albany Plan
Allies
Anti-Imperialist League
Nuremburg Trials
8. 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.
Bay of Pigs
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Annapolis Convention
CIA
9. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Camp meetings
Anti-Imperialist League
Mercantilism
J. Edgar Hoover
10. 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."
Bank veto
Jay's Treaty
Stokely Carmichael
A Century of Dishonor
11. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Cabot Lodge
American Civil Liberties Union
Tippecanoe
12. 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.
The Awakening
Camp David Accords
J. Edgar Hoover
Gulf War
13. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Albany Plan
Anti-Saloon League
14. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were charged with murder in Massachusetts in 1920 and sentenced to death. The case against them was circumstantial and poorly argued - although evidence now suggests that they were in fact guilty. It was significant -
Roger Williams
Helsinki Accords
Jacques Cartier
Sacco-Vanzetti case
15. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sedition Amendment
Chinese Exclusion Act
AFL
16. 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.
Central Powers
Atomic Energy Commission
Helsinki Accords
Walt Whitman
17. 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
Central Powers
Henry David Thoreau
Salutary neglect
18. 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.
Reaganomics
Bank veto
American Civil Liberties Union
Pendleton Act
19. 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
Boston Massacre
Iran-Contra affair
George Bush
Black codes
20. 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.
Saddam Hussein
Berlin Wall
Sedition Amendment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. 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 -
Boston Tea Party
House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
Puritans
22. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Leif Ericson
The Beats
Camp David Accords
23. 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.
George Bush
John Steinbeck
James Fenimore Cooper
Treaty of Ghent
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
Popular Front
The Feminine Mystique
Anti-Imperialist League
Alien and Sedition Acts
25. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Treaty of Ghent
John Cabot
Edgar Allen Poe
Baby boom
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
Bay of Pigs
Boxer Rebellion
Assembly line
27. 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.
Pendleton Act
Albany Plan
Reaganomics
Bay of Pigs
28. 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
Baby boom
Battle of Britain
Bacon's Rebellion
Bank of the United States
29. 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.
Alger Hiss
Hartford Convention
Anti-Saloon League
Tippecanoe
30. 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.
Alger Hiss
Camp David Accords
Samuel Adams
Silent Spring
31. 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.
National Origins Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Hudson
Bleeding Kansas
32. 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
Battle of Britain
Eugenics
Battle of the Bulge
Susan B. Anthony
33. 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
Lost generation
To Secure These Rights
Reaganomics
CIA
34. 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.
Henry Clay
Pendleton Act
CIA
Checks and balances
35. 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
Cash-and-carry
Bleeding Kansas
Jimmy Carter
36. Fought in Maryland on September 17 - 1863. Considered the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - casualties totalled more than 8 -000 dead and 18 -000 wounded. Although Union forces failed to defeat Lee and the Confederates - they did halt the Confe
Students for a Democratic Society
H. L. Mencken
Bull Moose Party
Antietam
37. 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
New Look
Bank of the United States
Trust
Mikhail Gorbachev
38. 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
Henry David Thoreau
House Un-American Activities Committee
Annapolis Convention
Albany Plan
39. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Deists
John Steinbeck
Boston Tea Party
40. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Assembly line
Silent Spring
Boston Massacre
Central Powers
41. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
William Randolph Hearst
AFL
Henry Clay
Bay of Pigs
42. 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.
Roger Williams
AAA
The Feminine Mystique
Smith-Connolly Act
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
Susan B. Anthony
To Secure These Rights
AFL
Bleeding Kansas
44. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Gettysburg
Ross Perot
Jane Addams
45. 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
Jimmy Carter
Taft-Hartley Act
Nuremburg Trials
The Beats
46. 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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47. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
Shoot-on-sight order
Camp David Accords
Popular Front
48. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Northwest Ordinance
John Cabot
49. 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.
AAA
Silent Spring
Jane Addams
Nathaniel Hawthorne
50. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Bacon's Rebellion
Nuremburg Trials
Black Power
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