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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Hartford Convention
Chinese Exclusion Act
Anti-Saloon League
2. 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
Lost generation
Reaganomics
The Awakening
Students for a Democratic Society
3. 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.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Treaty of Ghent
Winston Churchill
Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. 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
Bank of the United States
H. L. Mencken
The Rosenbergs
Battle of the Bulge
5. 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
Bill of Rights
Annapolis Convention
Battle of Britain
Walt Whitman
6. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Gulf War
Henry Cabot Lodge
Gettysburg
7. 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
The Awakening
James Buchanan
Antietam
Bank veto
8. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
The Beats
Mutual Assured Destruction
Camp meetings
9. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Corrupt bargain
Articles of Confederation
Walt Whitman
10. 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.
Ernest Hemingway
The Beats
Sedition Amendment
Helsinki Accords
11. 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
Alien and Sedition Acts
Carpetbaggers
William Randolph Hearst
Henry Clay
12. 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
Peace Corps
Salutary neglect
Bootleggers
Reaganomics
13. 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
Atlantic Charter
Lost generation
Boris Yeltsin
CCC
14. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Palmer Raids
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Triangular Trade
Joint-stock companies
15. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Taft-Hartley Act
Tippecanoe
Palmer Raids
16. A prominent author during the Roaring Twenties - he wrote stories and novels that both glorified and criticized the wild lives of the carefree and prosperous. His most famous works include This Side of Paradise - published in 1920 - and The Great Gat
William Randolph Hearst
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treaty of Greenville
Mercantilism
17. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Civil Liberties Union
Boris Yeltsin
Lend-Lease Act
18. Written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881 - this work attempted to raise public awareness of the harsh and dishonorable treatment of Native Americans at the hands of the US.
Ernest Hemingway
Battle of the Bulge
To Secure These Rights
A Century of Dishonor
19. 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
Nuremburg Trials
AFL
James Buchanan
Hartford Convention
20. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Black codes
Students for a Democratic Society
Antietam
Iran-Contra affair
21. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Treaty of Ghent
Great Society
Kansas-Nebraska Act
J. Robert Oppenheimer
22. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Quasi-war
George Bush
Popular Front
Earl Warren
23. 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
Battle of Britain
Central Powers
Bull Moose Party
Hartford Convention
24. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Inflation
Allies
25. 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
Pendleton Act
Stokely Carmichael
H. L. Mencken
John Quincy Adams
26. 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.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Northwest Ordinance
George Bush
AAA
27. 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."
Leif Ericson
H. L. Mencken
House Un-American Activities Committee
Palmer Raids
28. Founded on the premise that the "perfect" human society could be achieved through genetic tinkering. Popularized during the Progressive Era - writers on this subject often used this theory to justify a supremacist white Protestant ideology - which ad
Great Society
Peace Corps
Eugenics
J. Edgar Hoover
29. 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.
John Adams
Joint-stock companies
Tiananmen Sqaure
Axis powers
30. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Bay of Pigs
Civil Rights Act
The Awakening
Horatio Alger
31. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lend-Lease Act
Joint-stock companies
Big stick diplomacy
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
Eugenics
Detente
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cuban Missile Crisis
33. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Great Society
Samuel Adams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. 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.
American System
Economic Opportunity Act
James Buchanan
Black Thursday
35. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Susan B. Anthony
John Quincy Adams
CCC
Treaty of Greenville
36. 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
Treaty of Greenville
House Un-American Activities Committee
Bay of Pigs
Carpetbaggers
37. 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
Triangular Trade
Boxer Rebellion
Jane Addams
38. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Popular Front
Bootleggers
Puritans
Saddam Hussein
39. Passed in 1940. This act made it illegal to speak of - or advocate - overthrowing the US government. During the presidential campaign of 1948 - Truman demonstrated his aggressive stance against communism by prosecuting eleven leaders of the Communist
Anti-federalists
Checks and balances
House Un-American Activities Committee
Smith Act
40. 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
Carpetbaggers
Big stick diplomacy
Atomic Energy Commission
41. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Jay's Treaty
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of the Bulge
House Un-American Activities Committee
42. 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.
Checks and balances
Black Thursday
Atlantic Charter
Committee to Defend America First
43. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Stokely Carmichael
Henry Hudson
Great Society
44. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
Treaty of Greenville
Earl Warren
Berlin Wall
Jimmy Carter
45. 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
Great Society
Gag rule
Helsinki Accords
Gulf War
46. 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
Gulf War
Treaty of Greenville
Triangular Trade
John Quincy Adams
47. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Black Panthers
Jacques Cartier
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter
48. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
Checks and balances
Henry Clay
Gettysburg
Tiananmen Sqaure
49. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Bleeding Kansas
Atomic Energy Commission
Hartford Convention
50. 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
Cash-and-carry
Roger Williams
Susan B. Anthony
Boston Tea Party