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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
John Adams
Atomic Energy Commission
Allies
2. A 1836 executive order issued by President Jackson in an attempt to stabilize the economy - which had been dramatically expanding since the early 1830s due to state banks' excessive lending practices and over-speculation. It required that all land pa
Hartford Convention
Specie Circular
Missouri Compromise
American System
3. 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.
Ross Perot
Boris Yeltsin
Jimmy Carter
Northwest Ordinance
4. Husband and wife who - in 1950 - were accused of spying for the Soviets. They countered the accusation on the grounds that their Jewish background and leftist beliefs made them easy targets for persecution. In a trial closely followed by the American
Boston Massacre
The Rosenbergs
Bank of the United States
House Un-American Activities Committee
5. 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
Berlin Wall
CCC
Gettysburg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. 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 -
Alger Hiss
Bootleggers
CIA
Shoot-on-sight order
7. 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.
Detente
Central Powers
William Randolph Hearst
Albany Plan
8. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Cabot
Black Panthers
House Un-American Activities Committee
Edgar Allen Poe
9. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Fidel Castro
Henry Cabot Lodge
10. 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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11. 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
Winston Churchill
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Missouri Compromise
National Origins Act
12. 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
Bacon's Rebellion
Economic Opportunity Act
Pendleton Act
13. 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
Detente
Horatio Alger
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Deists
14. A political group active in aiding the leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Prominent American intellectuals and writers - including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos - joined the group.
Lost generation
National Origins Act
Popular Front
Camp meetings
15. 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.
Roger Williams
James Fenimore Cooper
American Civil Liberties Union
Smith-Connolly Act
16. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Trust
Earl Warren
Treaty of Greenville
17. 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
Shoot-on-sight order
Berlin Wall
Great Society
Samuel Adams
18. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
Axis powers
Berlin Blockade
James Buchanan
19. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil Works Administration
The Age of Reason
Anti-Imperialist League
20. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Berlin Blockade
First Great Awakening
21. Passed by Southerners in Congress in 1836. The rule tabled all abolitionist petitions in Congress and thereby prevented antislavery discussions. It was repealed in 1845 - under increased pressure from Northern abolitionists and those concerned with t
Taft-Hartley Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
Civil Rights Act
Gag rule
22. 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.
Bill of Rights
Trust
The Rosenbergs
AAA
23. 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
Inflation
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Checks and balances
Brown v Board of Ed
24. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
J. Edgar Hoover
Jane Addams
Inflation
Antietam
25. 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
Popular Front
Fidel Castro
Stokely Carmichael
26. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Berlin Wall
Big stick diplomacy
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Quasi-war
27. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Bootleggers
J. Edgar Hoover
Andrew Carnegie
Central Powers
28. 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
Civil Rights Act
Eugenics
The Age of Reason
John Adams
29. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
American Civil Liberties Union
Tiananmen Sqaure
Smith-Connolly Act
30. Passed in 1883. This act established a civil service exam for many public posts and created hiring systems based on merit rather than on patronage. The act aimed to eliminate corrupt hiring practices.
Reaganomics
Pendleton Act
American Civil Liberties Union
National Origins Act
31. 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
Antietam
Leif Ericson
Bull Moose Party
32. Signed in 1975 by Gerald Ford - Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev - and the leaders of thirty-one other states in a promise to solidify European boundaries - respect human rights - and permit freedom of travel.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mutual Assured Destruction
Henry Cabot Lodge
Helsinki Accords
33. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Specie Circular
Jimmy Carter
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
John Adams
34. 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
Black Panthers
Treaty of Greenville
The Age of Reason
35. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Samuel de Champlain
National Origins Act
Susan B. Anthony
Ross Perot
36. 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
Puritans
Berlin Blockade
Silent Spring
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Submitted by Benjamin Franklin to the 1754 gathering of colonial delegates in Albany - New York. The plan called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. Although the delegates in Albany approved the plan - the col
Assembly line
Gettysburg
Albany Plan
Smith Act
38. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Jimmy Carter
Earl Warren
Chinese Exclusion Act
39. 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
Bay of Pigs
Bank veto
Specie Circular
Mutual Assured Destruction
40. 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
Smith Act
Eugenics
Jimmy Carter
New Look
41. 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
Bull Moose Party
Peace Corps
Civil Rights Act
John Brown
42. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Camp meetings
Susan B. Anthony
William Jennings Bryan
43. 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
Annapolis Convention
Eugenics
Taft-Hartley Act
James Buchanan
44. Also the Compromise of 1820. Resolved the conflict surrounding the admission of Missouri to the Union as either a slave or free state. The compromise made Missouri a slave state - admitted Maine as a free state - and prohibited slavery in the remaind
Taft-Hartley Act
Checks and balances
Camp David Accords
Missouri Compromise
45. 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
Great Society
The Awakening
Samuel de Champlain
The Feminine Mystique
46. 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.
Black Power
James Buchanan
Roger Williams
Salutary neglect
47. 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
Berlin Wall
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Black Power
Boston Tea Party
48. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Central Powers
Mercantilism
49. 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).
Horatio Alger
Edgar Allen Poe
Salutary neglect
William Jennings Bryan
50. The centerpiece of a congressional effort to restrict union activity. The act - passed in 1947 - banned certain union practices and allowed the president to call for an eighty-day cooling off period to delay strikes thought to pose risks to national
Taft-Hartley Act
Allies
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Salutary neglect