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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
Civil Rights Act
Trust
2. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Berlin Blockade
Henry Cabot Lodge
Reaganomics
3. 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
To Secure These Rights
Nuremburg Trials
Annapolis Convention
Bay of Pigs
4. 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
Inflation
Henry David Thoreau
Central Powers
5. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Northwest Ordinance
Tripartite Pact
Henry Clay
Lend-Lease Act
6. 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.
Deists
Bill of Rights
Trust
Susan B. Anthony
7. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Fidel Castro
Articles of Confederation
8. The stock market crash of October 24 - 1929. After a decade of great prosperity - on this day the market dropped in value by an astonishing 9 percent - kicking off the Great Depression.
Black Thursday
Axis powers
Missouri Compromise
William Randolph Hearst
9. 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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10. 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
Northwest Ordinance
American Civil Liberties Union
James Buchanan
Gettysburg
11. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Checks and balances
The Beats
Baby boom
Black Thursday
12. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Beats
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Henry Hudson
13. 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
William Randolph Hearst
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mutual Assured Destruction
14. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Students for a Democratic Society
Smith Act
Camp meetings
Bull Moose Party
15. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Gettysburg
John Steinbeck
Allies
Stokely Carmichael
16. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Pendleton Act
Corrupt bargain
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
J. Edgar Hoover
17. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Helsinki Accords
Carpetbaggers
18. 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
John Quincy Adams
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Smith Act
The Beats
19. 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
The Age of Reason
Cash-and-carry
Dynamic conservatism
Helsinki Accords
20. 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.
Boston Massacre
The Age of Reason
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Cabot Lodge
21. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Black Power
Anti-Imperialist League
Anti-federalists
Gulf War
22. 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
John Brown
Bull Moose Party
Jay's Treaty
Trust
23. 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.
AFL
Ross Perot
Big stick diplomacy
Checks and balances
24. The principles established by the Constitution to prevent any one branch of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) from gaining too much power. They represent the solution to the problem of how to empower the central government while als
Black Power
Joint-stock companies
H. L. Mencken
Checks and balances
25. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Earl Warren
James Buchanan
Silent Spring
26. 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
Camp meetings
The Awakening
Mercantilism
James Fenimore Cooper
27. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
CCC
American Civil Liberties Union
J. Edgar Hoover
Samuel de Champlain
28. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
House Un-American Activities Committee
Detente
Bank veto
The Rosenbergs
29. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Black Power
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Camp David Accords
Antietam
30. 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
Boston Massacre
Taft-Hartley Act
Boston Tea Party
31. 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
Berlin Blockade
Bootleggers
Inflation
William Jennings Bryan
32. 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.
Jane Addams
A Century of Dishonor
Berlin Wall
Hartford Convention
33. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Black Panthers
Axis powers
Tiananmen Sqaure
Tippecanoe
34. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Samuel Adams
Earl Warren
Tiananmen Sqaure
35. 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.
Bootleggers
Bank of the United States
John Steinbeck
American System
36. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Henry David Thoreau
Saddam Hussein
Tripartite Pact
Gulf War
37. 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.
The Awakening
Chinese Exclusion Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Sedition Amendment
38. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Ernest Hemingway
Saddam Hussein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Edgar Allen Poe
Boston Massacre
Bootleggers
J. Robert Oppenheimer
40. 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
Battle of the Bulge
H. L. Mencken
Cuban Missile Crisis
41. 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
Antietam
Nuremburg Trials
Jay's Treaty
Palmer Raids
42. 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
Boston Massacre
Northwest Ordinance
Berlin Blockade
43. 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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bank of the United States
Henry Hudson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. 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
Bank of the United States
First Great Awakening
H. L. Mencken
John Cabot
45. 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.
Walt Whitman
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ernest Hemingway
Black Power
46. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Central Powers
Jay's Treaty
Smith Act
47. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
American System
To Secure These Rights
Black codes
Northwest Ordinance
48. 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.
Joint-stock companies
Iran-Contra affair
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Salutary neglect
49. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Treaty of Ghent
Baby boom
John Cabot
John Quincy Adams
50. Passed in 1964 - the act outlawed discrimination in education - employment - and all public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
Battle of Britain
Salutary neglect
Silent Spring