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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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."
Central Powers
Popular Front
Anti-Imperialist League
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. 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 -
The Beats
Bank veto
Alger Hiss
Anti-Imperialist League
3. 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.
Alger Hiss
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Deists
4. 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.
The Age of Reason
The Awakening
Annapolis Convention
Economic Opportunity Act
5. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Checks and balances
Henry David Thoreau
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6. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
Carpetbaggers
James Fenimore Cooper
American Civil Liberties Union
7. Advocated isolationism and opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Committee members urged neutrality - claiming that the US could stand alone regardless of Hitler's advances in Europe.
George Bush
Students for a Democratic Society
Committee to Defend America First
Boris Yeltsin
8. 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.
Jane Addams
Battle of Britain
Treaty of Greenville
Northwest Ordinance
9. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Black Panthers
Gettysburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mercantilism
Eugenics
Anti-federalists
11. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Roger Williams
Gag rule
12. 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
Detente
Camp David Accords
Mercantilism
Atlantic Charter
13. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Gettysburg
Peace Corps
James Fenimore Cooper
The Feminine Mystique
14. 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
John Cabot
Boston Tea Party
The Feminine Mystique
Tiananmen Sqaure
15. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Cuban Missile Crisis
Triangular Trade
John Quincy Adams
16. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Anti-Imperialist League
John Quincy Adams
To Secure These Rights
Henry David Thoreau
17. 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.
Samuel Adams
Tiananmen Sqaure
Big stick diplomacy
Andrew Carnegie
18. Written by Thomas Paine; published in three parts between 1794 and 1807. A critique of organized religion - the book was criticized as a defense of Atheism. Paine's argument is a prime example of the rationalist approach to religion inspired by Enlig
Dynamic conservatism
Iran-Contra affair
The Age of Reason
Atomic Energy Commission
19. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
Peace Corps
Carpetbaggers
Ross Perot
Joint-stock companies
20. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
The Awakening
Cash-and-carry
John Adams
21. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Ross Perot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gag rule
Assembly line
22. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Brown
John Steinbeck
Pendleton Act
Henry Hudson
23. Constructed by the USSR and completed in August 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin. The wall cemented the poltical split of Berlin between the communist and authoritarian Eastand the capitalist and democratic West. The wall wa
Ernest Hemingway
Berlin Wall
Horatio Alger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. 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
Deists
Cash-and-carry
Carpetbaggers
Battle of the Bulge
25. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Bay of Pigs
First Great Awakening
William Randolph Hearst
26. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bleeding Kansas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Missouri Compromise
27. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Bleeding Kansas
Nuremburg Trials
The Awakening
28. 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
Winston Churchill
Mutual Assured Destruction
American System
Treaty of Ghent
29. 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.
Helsinki Accords
Sacco-Vanzetti case
John C. Calhoun
Annapolis Convention
30. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
American System
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Specie Circular
Lend-Lease Act
31. 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
Albany Plan
Boris Yeltsin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. Robert Oppenheimer
32. 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
John C. Calhoun
Shoot-on-sight order
Horatio Alger
Great Society
33. 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
Boston Tea Party
Black Panthers
The Awakening
Winston Churchill
34. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Detente
Sedition Amendment
Henry Cabot Lodge
35. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
CIA
Mikhail Gorbachev
36. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Dynamic conservatism
Treaty of Ghent
Berlin Blockade
37. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
American Civil Liberties Union
Boston Massacre
Triangular Trade
38. 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
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Brown v Board of Ed
Nuremburg Trials
Stokely Carmichael
39. 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
Bootleggers
Nuremburg Trials
Gulf War
Ross Perot
40. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Nuremburg Trials
Quasi-war
Albany Plan
Boris Yeltsin
41. 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
John Adams
AAA
A Century of Dishonor
Quasi-war
42. 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.
Gulf War
Corrupt bargain
Big stick diplomacy
Horatio Alger
43. 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
Trust
Inflation
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Brown
44. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Henry Hudson
Smith-Connolly Act
Lend-Lease Act
45. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Gag rule
House Un-American Activities Committee
Tippecanoe
Jacques Cartier
46. 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
Popular Front
American Civil Liberties Union
Peace Corps
Samuel de Champlain
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.
Camp David Accords
Bill of Rights
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Jane Addams
48. A series of raids coordinated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Throughout 1910 - police and federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations in thirty-two cities. The raids resulted in more
John Adams
Palmer Raids
Boris Yeltsin
Chinese Exclusion Act
49. 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
Bleeding Kansas
John Quincy Adams
Specie Circular
Dynamic conservatism
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.
Camp meetings
Antietam
Treaty of Ghent
Committee to Defend America First