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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Berlin Wall
The Age of Reason
Lend-Lease Act
Big stick diplomacy
2. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Ross Perot
House Un-American Activities Committee
Salutary neglect
3. 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
Camp meetings
Bank of the United States
Battle of the Bulge
Missouri Compromise
4. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
Assembly line
John Cabot
Great Society
Horatio Alger
5. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Brown v Board of Ed
Ross Perot
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.
The Rosenbergs
Popular Front
John Adams
Boxer Rebellion
7. 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
First Great Awakening
Treaty of Ghent
Articles of Confederation
Detente
8. Passed in 1924. Established maximum quotas for immigration into the US. This law severely restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe - and excluded Asians entirely.
Black Thursday
New Look
Jacques Cartier
National Origins Act
9. 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
Carpetbaggers
Bacon's Rebellion
Brown v Board of Ed
Leif Ericson
10. 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
Bank veto
Black Thursday
Jimmy Carter
Ernest Hemingway
11. 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
Helsinki Accords
Battle of the Bulge
Bleeding Kansas
Bill of Rights
12. 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.
Civil Works Administration
Earl Warren
Black Thursday
Annapolis Convention
13. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
John Adams
Saddam Hussein
John Brown
Black Power
14. 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.
William Randolph Hearst
Ross Perot
Economic Opportunity Act
Gag rule
15. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Tippecanoe
Albany Plan
Bootleggers
Palmer Raids
16. Written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. Exposed the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT. Carson's book helped spur an increase in environmental awareness and concern among the American people.
Silent Spring
American System
Assembly line
Atomic Energy Commission
17. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Boston Massacre
Students for a Democratic Society
To Secure These Rights
Detente
18. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
House Un-American Activities Committee
Central Powers
American System
19. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Annapolis Convention
Earl Warren
Mercantilism
20. A series of twelve letters published by John Dickinson. The letters denounced the Townsend Duties by demonstrating that many ot the arguments employed against the Stamp Act were valid against the Townsend Duties as well. The letters inspired anti-Bri
AAA
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
John Steinbeck
Axis powers
21. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
William Jennings Bryan
Fidel Castro
Chinese Exclusion Act
Leif Ericson
22. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Bay of Pigs
Committee to Defend America First
Camp meetings
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
23. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Atomic Energy Commission
Black Panthers
Pendleton Act
24. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Berlin Wall
John Cabot
Black Panthers
House Un-American Activities Committee
25. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Walt Whitman
Eugenics
Bootleggers
Assembly line
26. 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.
House Un-American Activities Committee
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treaty of Greenville
George Bush
27. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Jacques Cartier
Tripartite Pact
The Rosenbergs
Puritans
28. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy - preferring deterrence to ground force involvement - and emphasizing the massive retaliatory potential of a large nuclear stockpile. Eisenhower worked to increase nuclear spending and decrease spending on ground troops
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Look
The Feminine Mystique
Samuel de Champlain
29. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Anti-Saloon League
Trust
Missouri Compromise
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
30. 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."
Smith-Connolly Act
John Quincy Adams
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. 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.
John C. Calhoun
Economic Opportunity Act
Mikhail Gorbachev
To Secure These Rights
32. 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.
Committee to Defend America First
Black Thursday
Treaty of Greenville
Ross Perot
33. 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.
Leif Ericson
Henry David Thoreau
Palmer Raids
Deists
34. 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.
CIA
A Century of Dishonor
Tripartite Pact
Atomic Energy Commission
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.
The Awakening
Gag rule
Quasi-war
Atomic Energy Commission
36. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were charged with murder in Massachusetts in 1920 and sentenced to death. The case against them was circumstantial and poorly argued - although evidence now suggests that they were in fact guilty. It was significant -
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Ernest Hemingway
The Awakening
Big stick diplomacy
37. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Central Powers
Puritans
Anti-federalists
Samuel Adams
38. In 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon - a Virginia planter - accused the royal governer of failing to provide poorer farmers protection from raiding tribes. In response - Bacon led 300 settlers against local Native Americans - and then burned and looted Jamestow
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39. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Antietam
Salutary neglect
Sacco-Vanzetti case
John Steinbeck
40. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
CIA
Mercantilism
Black codes
Boston Massacre
41. A radical Protestant group that sought to "purify" the Church of England from within. Persecuted for their beliefs - many of them fled to the New World in the early 1600s - where they established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day Boston. Th
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Black codes
Puritans
Jimmy Carter
42. 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
Samuel Adams
Dynamic conservatism
Bootleggers
Jane Addams
43. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
James Fenimore Cooper
Palmer Raids
Anti-federalists
44. 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.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Beats
Henry David Thoreau
Tripartite Pact
45. 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
Berlin Wall
Missouri Compromise
AAA
Saddam Hussein
46. 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.
William Randolph Hearst
Roger Williams
Black Panthers
Saddam Hussein
47. 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.
Annapolis Convention
AFL
Big stick diplomacy
Northwest Ordinance
48. 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.
To Secure These Rights
Bank veto
Lost generation
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
49. 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 -
Battle of Britain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alger Hiss
Bank of the United States
50. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Shoot-on-sight order
Bleeding Kansas
Bay of Pigs
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