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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Gulf War
Peace Corps
Henry David Thoreau
2. 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
Hartford Convention
Civil Rights Act
Jimmy Carter
William Randolph Hearst
3. Industrialist Henry Ford installed the first of these while developing his Model T car in 1908 - and perfected its use in the 1920s. This type of manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action - maximizing outpu
Atomic Energy Commission
Assembly line
Stokely Carmichael
Bank veto
4. Negotiated by President Carter - these were signed by Israel's leader - Menachem Begin - and Egypt's leader - Anwar el-Sadat - on March 26 - 1979. The treaty - however - fell apart when Sadat was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Lend-Lease Act
Camp David Accords
James Buchanan
5. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Big stick diplomacy
Berlin Blockade
J. Edgar Hoover
Antietam
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.
John Adams
Henry David Thoreau
George Bush
New Look
7. 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
Berlin Wall
Boxer Rebellion
Silent Spring
The Rosenbergs
8. 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
Lost generation
The Rosenbergs
Berlin Blockade
Articles of Confederation
9. 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.
Samuel Adams
Deists
Andrew Carnegie
Alger Hiss
10. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Carpetbaggers
Reaganomics
John C. Calhoun
11. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Checks and balances
Shoot-on-sight order
Northwest Ordinance
12. 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."
The Age of Reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace Corps
Trust
13. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Puritans
Anti-Saloon League
Bill of Rights
Antietam
14. 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
Joint-stock companies
Henry Cabot Lodge
Northwest Ordinance
15. 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.
Chinese Exclusion Act
CCC
Peace Corps
Quasi-war
16. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Salutary neglect
Henry Clay
Gulf War
17. 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.
Tripartite Pact
Henry David Thoreau
Earl Warren
Alien and Sedition Acts
18. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Berlin Blockade
Samuel Adams
Peace Corps
19. 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
Mercantilism
Tippecanoe
Bank veto
New Look
20. Primarily concerned with international espionage and information gathering. In the 1950s - this organization became heavily involved in many civil struggles in the Third World - supporting groups likely to cooperate with the US rather than the USSR.
CIA
Sedition Amendment
Antietam
Peace Corps
21. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Albany Plan
Bank of the United States
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
Gag rule
Black Thursday
Henry Cabot Lodge
Samuel Adams
23. Written by Betty Friedan in 1963. This book was a rallying cry for the women's liberation movement. It denounced the belief that women should be tied to the home and encouraged women to get involved in activities outside their home and family.
Winston Churchill
The Feminine Mystique
Edgar Allen Poe
Salutary neglect
24. 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
Leif Ericson
First Great Awakening
Gulf War
Big stick diplomacy
25. Passed in March 1941. Allowed the president to lend or lease supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the US -" such as Britain - and was a key move in support ot the Allied cause before the US formally entered World War II. Was extende
Allies
Samuel Adams
Lend-Lease Act
New Look
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
Gag rule
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lost generation
Leif Ericson
27. 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
Boris Yeltsin
Great Society
Smith-Connolly Act
Triangular Trade
28. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election - he failed to win the requisite majority and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams for
Corrupt bargain
The Feminine Mystique
The Awakening
Smith Act
29. Political figure throughout the Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson. He served as James Monroe's secretary of war - as John Quincy Adam's vice president - and then as Andrew Jackson's vice president for one term. A firm believer in states' ri
The Feminine Mystique
Camp meetings
Boxer Rebellion
John C. Calhoun
30. 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
Salutary neglect
John Cabot
Saddam Hussein
Boston Tea Party
31. 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
Hartford Convention
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Assembly line
Gag rule
32. 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
Anti-federalists
Anti-Saloon League
Berlin Blockade
Puritans
33. 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 -
H. L. Mencken
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
Great Society
34. 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
H. L. Mencken
National Origins Act
Specie Circular
Civil Works Administration
35. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Committee to Defend America First
Atomic Energy Commission
Shoot-on-sight order
36. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Mercantilism
Baby boom
Jimmy Carter
Great Society
37. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Gulf War
Hartford Convention
American Civil Liberties Union
38. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Roger Williams
Bull Moose Party
Susan B. Anthony
Deists
39. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Reaganomics
Gulf War
40. 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.
Henry Hudson
Berlin Wall
Mutual Assured Destruction
New Look
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
J. Edgar Hoover
First Great Awakening
Berlin Blockade
42. 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.
Eugenics
Saddam Hussein
Committee to Defend America First
Smith-Connolly Act
43. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
Smith-Connolly Act
Popular Front
Quasi-war
44. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Great Society
Bill of Rights
The Awakening
45. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Deists
Antietam
Battle of Britain
46. Author of popular young adult novels - such as Ragged Dick - during the Industrial Revolution. His "rags to riches" tales emphasized that anyone could become wealthy and successful through hard work and exceptional luck.
CCC
Horatio Alger
John Adams
Cuban Missile Crisis
47. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Camp David Accords
Axis powers
Palmer Raids
Quasi-war
48. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
AFL
Fidel Castro
Checks and balances
Inflation
49. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Anti-federalists
James Buchanan
Pendleton Act
50. 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
Camp David Accords
Great Society
Bank of the United States
Ernest Hemingway