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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Joint-stock companies
George Bush
Bay of Pigs
CCC
2. 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).
Edgar Allen Poe
Sedition Amendment
New Look
Leif Ericson
3. 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.
American Civil Liberties Union
Shoot-on-sight order
James Buchanan
Earl Warren
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.
New Look
J. Edgar Hoover
Northwest Ordinance
Anti-federalists
5. 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
Horatio Alger
Detente
Big stick diplomacy
Salutary neglect
6. 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.
H. L. Mencken
Deists
American System
Henry Hudson
7. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Bank veto
Berlin Blockade
Henry David Thoreau
8. 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
Jimmy Carter
Bleeding Kansas
AFL
Boxer Rebellion
9. Passed in 1924. Established maximum quotas for immigration into the US. This law severely restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe - and excluded Asians entirely.
National Origins Act
Gag rule
H. L. Mencken
Kansas-Nebraska Act
10. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
The Awakening
Black codes
Lost generation
11. 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.
Walt Whitman
Jacques Cartier
Treaty of Greenville
James Fenimore Cooper
12. 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
13. Formed in the absence of support form the British crown - these companies accrued funding for colonization through the sale of public stock. They dominated English colonization throughout the seventeenth century.
Cash-and-carry
Joint-stock companies
Committee to Defend America First
Cuban Missile Crisis
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 -
Treaty of Ghent
Trust
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Bay of Pigs
15. 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
Trust
Smith Act
Black Thursday
Chinese Exclusion Act
16. 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
Nuremburg Trials
John Adams
Mikhail Gorbachev
Helsinki Accords
17. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
John C. Calhoun
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Smith Act
Bank of the United States
18. 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."
Black codes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cash-and-carry
Treaty of Ghent
19. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Anti-Imperialist League
Roger Williams
John Brown
20. 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
Jacques Cartier
Earl Warren
Missouri Compromise
The Beats
21. Trials of Nazi war criminals that began in November 1945. More than 200 defendants were indicted in the thirteen trials. All but thirty-eight of them were convicted of conspiring to wage aggressive war and of mistreating prisoners of war and inhabita
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nuremburg Trials
The Rosenbergs
Mikhail Gorbachev
22. 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.
Black codes
Henry Hudson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Atomic Energy Commission
23. Andrew Jackon's 1832 veto of the proposed charter renewal for the Second Bank of the United States. The veto marked the beginning of Jackon's five-year battle against the national bank.
Central Powers
Bank veto
Shoot-on-sight order
Civil Rights Act
24. A meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 - in which the New England-based party enumerated its complaints against the ruling Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists - already losing power steadily - hoped that antiwar sentiment w
Hartford Convention
Jacques Cartier
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of Britain
25. 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
Axis powers
Bank of the United States
Henry David Thoreau
Ernest Hemingway
26. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Gag rule
Students for a Democratic Society
Battle of the Bulge
Civil Rights Act
27. 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.
Cash-and-carry
Helsinki Accords
Smith-Connolly Act
Bull Moose Party
28. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
CCC
Tripartite Pact
Committee to Defend America First
The Beats
29. 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.
Cash-and-carry
Camp meetings
Boxer Rebellion
National Origins Act
30. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Jay's Treaty
Henry Clay
J. Edgar Hoover
Tippecanoe
31. 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
Battle of Britain
Black Power
Iran-Contra affair
Tippecanoe
32. 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
National Origins Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of the Bulge
Anti-Saloon League
33. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
Anti-federalists
Battle of the Bulge
Berlin Blockade
Horatio Alger
34. 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
Peace Corps
Big stick diplomacy
Boris Yeltsin
35. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Palmer Raids
Henry Cabot Lodge
CIA
36. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Baby boom
Earl Warren
Corrupt bargain
Ross Perot
37. 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 Power
Great Society
Boris Yeltsin
Civil Works Administration
38. 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.
Reaganomics
Edgar Allen Poe
John Brown
Students for a Democratic Society
39. 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.
The Beats
Alien and Sedition Acts
Black Power
Baby boom
40. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
The Age of Reason
John Adams
Fidel Castro
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Bleeding Kansas
American System
Bull Moose Party
42. 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
First Great Awakening
John Adams
George Bush
Gettysburg
43. 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
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil Rights Act
Taft-Hartley Act
44. 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
Treaty of Ghent
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chinese Exclusion Act
45. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Alien and Sedition Acts
Lost generation
46. 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
47. US Cold War policy - developed in the 1960s - that acknowledged that both the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other many times over. This policy hoped to prevent outright war with the SU on the premise that any att
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Mutual Assured Destruction
Northwest Ordinance
Winston Churchill
48. 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 Feminine Mystique
Earl Warren
Berlin Blockade
Alien and Sedition Acts
49. 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
Checks and balances
Atlantic Charter
American System
Ross Perot
50. 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
Henry Hudson
The Awakening
Bill of Rights
Big stick diplomacy