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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Berlin Blockade
Samuel de Champlain
AFL
2. 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.
Quasi-war
Jacques Cartier
Bank veto
Reaganomics
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.
Trust
Bull Moose Party
Silent Spring
Deists
4. 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
Baby boom
Lend-Lease Act
The Rosenbergs
Palmer Raids
5. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Big stick diplomacy
Northwest Ordinance
Ernest Hemingway
6. 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
Tippecanoe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Secure These Rights
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.
Black codes
Committee to Defend America First
Kansas-Nebraska Act
H. L. Mencken
8. 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.
H. L. Mencken
Treaty of Ghent
The Age of Reason
Central Powers
9. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Boston Tea Party
John Cabot
To Secure These Rights
Boris Yeltsin
10. 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
Cash-and-carry
Jimmy Carter
Corrupt bargain
Articles of Confederation
11. 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
Ernest Hemingway
The Feminine Mystique
James Buchanan
The Age of Reason
12. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Economic Opportunity Act
Camp meetings
Earl Warren
13. 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'
Treaty of Greenville
Annapolis Convention
Tripartite Pact
Gulf War
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
The Age of Reason
Boston Tea Party
Boris Yeltsin
Camp meetings
15. In September 1939 - FDR persuaded Congress to pass a new - amended Neutrality Act - which allowed warring nations to purchase arms from the US as long as they paid in cash and carried the arms away on their own ships. This program allowed the US to a
Jimmy Carter
Cash-and-carry
Leif Ericson
Taft-Hartley Act
16. 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.
Henry Hudson
A Century of Dishonor
Atomic Energy Commission
National Origins Act
17. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Stokely Carmichael
Bleeding Kansas
Mercantilism
18. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. His liberal court made a number of important decisions - primarily in the realm of civil rights - including Brown v Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
Salutary neglect
Treaty of Greenville
Boston Massacre
Earl Warren
19. 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
Ross Perot
Smith Act
Camp meetings
American Civil Liberties Union
20. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
Bank of the United States
The Rosenbergs
Gag rule
21. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
The Feminine Mystique
Hartford Convention
Jane Addams
22. 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
Henry Clay
Bank of the United States
Triangular Trade
Inflation
23. 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.
Gulf War
Economic Opportunity Act
Tippecanoe
Mikhail Gorbachev
24. 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
Fidel Castro
Hartford Convention
Triangular Trade
Carpetbaggers
25. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Sedition Amendment
Pendleton Act
Nuremburg Trials
26. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
AFL
Assembly line
Cash-and-carry
27. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Anti-Imperialist League
Hartford Convention
John Steinbeck
Bootleggers
28. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Palmer Raids
To Secure These Rights
Henry Cabot Lodge
J. Edgar Hoover
29. 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
Big stick diplomacy
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Jane Addams
Bill of Rights
30. 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.
Missouri Compromise
Treaty of Greenville
James Buchanan
Smith-Connolly Act
31. 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.
Trust
Civil Works Administration
Walt Whitman
Sedition Amendment
32. 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.
Earl Warren
Mercantilism
American Civil Liberties Union
Bill of Rights
33. 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."
Smith-Connolly Act
Bull Moose Party
Jane Addams
H. L. Mencken
34. Passed in 1854. The act divided the Nebraska territory into two parts - Kansas and Nebraska - and left the issue of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty. It nullified the prohibition of slavery above the 36 30' latitude est
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Horatio Alger
John C. Calhoun
35. After World War II - this organization workerd on developing more effective ways of usting nuclear material - such as uranium - in order to mass-produce nuclear weapons.
Popular Front
To Secure These Rights
Atomic Energy Commission
The Feminine Mystique
36. 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.
Sedition Amendment
Joint-stock companies
Nuremburg Trials
J. Edgar Hoover
37. 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
Roger Williams
Treaty of Greenville
Henry Hudson
Berlin Wall
38. 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
Treaty of Greenville
New Look
John Brown
Bank of the United States
39. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Saddam Hussein
Walt Whitman
Chinese Exclusion Act
Stokely Carmichael
40. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Anti-federalists
Axis powers
Trust
Saddam Hussein
41. 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.
Tippecanoe
Black Panthers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ernest Hemingway
42. During ratification - these people opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it gave the federal government too much political - economic - and military control. They instead advocated a decentralized governmental structure that granted the most p
Black Panthers
Anti-federalists
Boxer Rebellion
Albany Plan
43. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Committee to Defend America First
Albany Plan
Jane Addams
Alger Hiss
44. 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.
Susan B. Anthony
AAA
Big stick diplomacy
Samuel Adams
45. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Treaty of Greenville
Atlantic Charter
Iran-Contra affair
Baby boom
46. 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.
George Bush
Brown v Board of Ed
Black Thursday
Reaganomics
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
Peace Corps
Anti-federalists
Andrew Carnegie
Mutual Assured Destruction
48. 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
Quasi-war
Tripartite Pact
Trust
Detente
49. 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
Treaty of Greenville
Taft-Hartley Act
Battle of Britain
Corrupt bargain
50. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Treaty of Ghent
Tiananmen Sqaure
Economic Opportunity Act