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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Bootleggers
Salutary neglect
Samuel Adams
Anti-Imperialist League
2. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Anti-federalists
Tripartite Pact
William Jennings Bryan
3. 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
Allies
Camp meetings
Bootleggers
4. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Alger Hiss
Kansas-Nebraska Act
5. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Civil Rights Act
Axis powers
J. Edgar Hoover
6. 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
Bull Moose Party
Big stick diplomacy
The Rosenbergs
Axis powers
7. 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
Boston Massacre
Bank veto
Tiananmen Sqaure
8. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Salutary neglect
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Brown
Peace Corps
9. 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.
John Cabot
Palmer Raids
Andrew Carnegie
American System
10. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
Boxer Rebellion
Carpetbaggers
Fidel Castro
Treaty of Greenville
11. 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
Sedition Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Shoot-on-sight order
Economic Opportunity Act
12. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Bootleggers
Bill of Rights
Reaganomics
13. 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
George Bush
Edgar Allen Poe
Allies
Mikhail Gorbachev
14. President Eisenhower's philosophy of government. He called it this to distinguish it from the Republican administrations of the past - which he deemed backword-looking and complacent. He was determined to work with the Democratic Party rather than ag
Ross Perot
Dynamic conservatism
Edgar Allen Poe
Civil Works Administration
15. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Great Society
H. L. Mencken
William Jennings Bryan
16. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Boston Tea Party
Reaganomics
William Randolph Hearst
17. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Henry David Thoreau
Saddam Hussein
Hartford Convention
18. Political figure throughout the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He served as James Monroe's secretary of war - as John Quincy Adam's vice president - and then as Andrew Jackson's vice president for one term. A firm believer in states' ri
Axis powers
Berlin Wall
Black codes
John C. Calhoun
19. 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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20. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
The Beats
John Brown
John Adams
21. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Salutary neglect
Civil Works Administration
Black Power
22. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saddam Hussein
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
23. 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
Bleeding Kansas
To Secure These Rights
William Jennings Bryan
Gettysburg
24. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joint-stock companies
Chinese Exclusion Act
First Great Awakening
25. 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
Bank of the United States
J. Edgar Hoover
Chinese Exclusion Act
26. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Steinbeck
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bank veto
The Awakening
27. Founded in 1920 - this organization seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals - often by bringing "test cases" to court in order to challange questionable laws. In 1925 - the organization challanged a Christian fundamentalist law in the Sco
Cash-and-carry
National Origins Act
American Civil Liberties Union
Antietam
28. 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.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Leif Ericson
Battle of Britain
Camp meetings
29. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Corrupt bargain
Mikhail Gorbachev
Axis powers
30. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Central Powers
Edgar Allen Poe
Samuel de Champlain
31. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Antietam
Samuel de Champlain
Taft-Hartley Act
32. 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.
Bank of the United States
Leif Ericson
The Rosenbergs
Atomic Energy Commission
33. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Gettysburg
Popular Front
Chinese Exclusion Act
National Origins Act
34. 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.
Inflation
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
John Adams
Economic Opportunity Act
35. 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
Samuel Adams
Anti-federalists
Lost generation
Atlantic Charter
36. 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
Black codes
Winston Churchill
Alien and Sedition Acts
Baby boom
37. 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.
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Hudson
Cash-and-carry
Silent Spring
38. Husband and wife who - in 1950 - were accused of spying for the Soviets. They countered the accusation on the grounds that their Jewish background and leftist beliefs made them easy targets for persecution. In a trial closely followed by the American
The Rosenbergs
Assembly line
Triangular Trade
Silent Spring
39. 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.
Civil Rights Act
Samuel Adams
Pendleton Act
Triangular Trade
40. 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."
Silent Spring
The Feminine Mystique
H. L. Mencken
Boxer Rebellion
41. 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.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Albany Plan
Treaty of Ghent
James Buchanan
42. 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
Bay of Pigs
Atomic Energy Commission
Bull Moose Party
Berlin Wall
43. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Bay of Pigs
Black Thursday
Albany Plan
44. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Ross Perot
John Cabot
CCC
The Age of Reason
45. 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.
Hartford Convention
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Eugenics
46. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Battle of the Bulge
Fidel Castro
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
47. 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.
National Origins Act
American System
Pendleton Act
Assembly line
48. 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
Bull Moose Party
Articles of Confederation
Missouri Compromise
Popular Front
49. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Bank of the United States
Black codes
Susan B. Anthony
50. 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
Sedition Amendment
Winston Churchill