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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Anti-Imperialist League
H. L. Mencken
2. 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.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Hudson
Tiananmen Sqaure
3. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Jane Addams
John Cabot
Bleeding Kansas
Iran-Contra affair
4. 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.
Bacon's Rebellion
Cash-and-carry
Bay of Pigs
James Fenimore Cooper
5. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Puritans
Civil Rights Act
James Buchanan
Nuremburg Trials
6. 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.
Bank of the United States
Inflation
John Adams
Corrupt bargain
7. 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.
Bull Moose Party
Tiananmen Sqaure
Henry Hudson
Central Powers
8. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
H. L. Mencken
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Helsinki Accords
Sacco-Vanzetti case
9. 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
Winston Churchill
Treaty of Ghent
Articles of Confederation
Tiananmen Sqaure
10. 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.
Jimmy Carter
Salutary neglect
Ross Perot
Atomic Energy Commission
11. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
CIA
Winston Churchill
Bay of Pigs
Baby boom
12. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inflation
Helsinki Accords
The Age of Reason
13. 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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14. 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
George Bush
Missouri Compromise
Big stick diplomacy
Bacon's Rebellion
15. 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
Peace Corps
William Randolph Hearst
Jacques Cartier
16. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Treaty of Greenville
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Earl Warren
Anti-Saloon League
17. Organized in 1966 in Oakland - California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group stressed black pride - economic self-sufficiency - and armed resistance to white oppression.
Black Panthers
Andrew Carnegie
J. Edgar Hoover
Berlin Wall
18. A 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed the "seperate but equal" segregationist doctrine established by the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson decision. The Court ruled that seperated facilities were inherently unequal and ordered public schools to
Brown v Board of Ed
Gulf War
Henry Cabot Lodge
Fidel Castro
19. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Boris Yeltsin
Lend-Lease Act
The Age of Reason
20. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Pendleton Act
Boston Tea Party
Quasi-war
Leif Ericson
21. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
James Fenimore Cooper
Tippecanoe
Anti-Imperialist League
The Beats
22. 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
CIA
Henry David Thoreau
Albany Plan
Henry Cabot Lodge
23. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
The Beats
Earl Warren
Tripartite Pact
Henry Clay
24. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Camp meetings
A Century of Dishonor
Bank of the United States
25. 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.
Salutary neglect
Henry David Thoreau
CCC
John Brown
26. 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
Deists
Eugenics
The Awakening
27. 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
Chinese Exclusion Act
Checks and balances
Henry Cabot Lodge
Hartford Convention
28. 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."
Sacco-Vanzetti case
H. L. Mencken
Stokely Carmichael
Henry Cabot Lodge
29. 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
Palmer Raids
Anti-Saloon League
Berlin Blockade
Kansas-Nebraska Act
30. 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
Earl Warren
Black Thursday
Great Society
American Civil Liberties Union
31. An important political figure during the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He engineered and championed the American System - a program aimed at economic self-sufficiency for the nation. As speaker of the house during Monroe's term in offi
Jimmy Carter
Earl Warren
New Look
Henry Clay
32. 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.
Bank of the United States
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bank veto
Allies
33. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Triangular Trade
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Edgar Hoover
Helsinki Accords
34. 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
AFL
Samuel Adams
Annapolis Convention
Black codes
35. 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
Anti-federalists
Civil Rights Act
Jane Addams
Mutual Assured Destruction
36. 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
Jay's Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
House Un-American Activities Committee
37. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Eugenics
The Beats
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
AFL
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
Boston Tea Party
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Lost generation
Helsinki Accords
39. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Bank veto
Treaty of Ghent
Detente
40. 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.
Salutary neglect
Camp meetings
Trust
Assembly line
41. 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
Henry Clay
Civil Works Administration
Mercantilism
Great Society
42. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
CCC
Alger Hiss
Bill of Rights
43. 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
Tippecanoe
Bill of Rights
Bull Moose Party
Alien and Sedition Acts
44. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tippecanoe
Fidel Castro
Baby boom
45. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Cuban Missile Crisis
Boston Tea Party
Pendleton Act
46. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Checks and balances
Stokely Carmichael
Boston Massacre
47. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Helsinki Accords
Winston Churchill
AAA
48. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams
Anti-Saloon League
Popular Front
Missouri Compromise
49. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Carpetbaggers
Students for a Democratic Society
James Buchanan
Tripartite Pact
50. 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
Atlantic Charter
Missouri Compromise
First Great Awakening
Corrupt bargain
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