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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Jimmy Carter
Hartford Convention
Gettysburg
2. Democratic candidate for president in 1896. His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator - he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president in
Susan B. Anthony
Gettysburg
Carpetbaggers
William Jennings Bryan
3. 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.
Gag rule
James Fenimore Cooper
Treaty of Ghent
Atomic Energy Commission
4. 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
Mikhail Gorbachev
Puritans
Bay of Pigs
National Origins Act
5. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Dynamic conservatism
Quasi-war
John Brown
Checks and balances
6. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Bay of Pigs
Bank of the United States
John Quincy Adams
A Century of Dishonor
7. 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.
Berlin Blockade
Reaganomics
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Horatio Alger
8. 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."
Annapolis Convention
Assembly line
Berlin Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. 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.
Specie Circular
Ross Perot
Nuremburg Trials
Central Powers
10. 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.
Assembly line
Central Powers
Silent Spring
Camp David Accords
11. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Edgar Allen Poe
Baby boom
Hartford Convention
To Secure These Rights
12. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
Civil Works Administration
Bacon's Rebellion
Walt Whitman
13. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Helsinki Accords
First Great Awakening
J. Edgar Hoover
Baby boom
14. 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
Checks and balances
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Gettysburg
15. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Nuremburg Trials
Roger Williams
16. 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
American System
Mercantilism
Susan B. Anthony
17. 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
Cash-and-carry
John C. Calhoun
Detente
Specie Circular
18. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Treaty of Ghent
Mutual Assured Destruction
19. 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'
The Awakening
Black Panthers
Jimmy Carter
Gulf War
20. 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.
To Secure These Rights
Deists
Samuel Adams
Missouri Compromise
21. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Saddam Hussein
John C. Calhoun
22. 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.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Helsinki Accords
Articles of Confederation
Earl Warren
23. Democratic president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He is best known for his commitment to human rights. During his term in office - he faced an oil crisis - a weak economy - and severe tension in the Middle East.
Dynamic conservatism
John Steinbeck
Jimmy Carter
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cuban Missile Crisis
Detente
25. 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
Economic Opportunity Act
Baby boom
American System
26. 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
Assembly line
Jay's Treaty
The Feminine Mystique
Atomic Energy Commission
27. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
Boston Massacre
Palmer Raids
Axis powers
28. 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.
Triangular Trade
Anti-federalists
Camp David Accords
Eugenics
29. 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
The Rosenbergs
Gag rule
Brown v Board of Ed
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
30. 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
A Century of Dishonor
Susan B. Anthony
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dynamic conservatism
31. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Salutary neglect
Shoot-on-sight order
Articles of Confederation
32. 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
Eugenics
Big stick diplomacy
The Awakening
Tripartite Pact
33. 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
Samuel de Champlain
Students for a Democratic Society
John C. Calhoun
Black Panthers
34. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
CIA
House Un-American Activities Committee
Andrew Carnegie
Atlantic Charter
35. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
Black Panthers
Puritans
Bank of the United States
36. 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.
Henry Hudson
Black Thursday
Iran-Contra affair
Camp meetings
37. A series of investigations in 1987 exposed evidence that the US had been selling arms to the anti-American government in Iran and using the profits from these sales to secretly and illegally finance the Contras in Nicaragua. (The Contras were a rebel
Iran-Contra affair
Inflation
Berlin Wall
Berlin Blockade
38. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Triangular Trade
Detente
Palmer Raids
Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
CCC
Boston Massacre
Eugenics
Battle of Britain
40. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Civil Works Administration
Trust
41. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Carpetbaggers
Berlin Wall
Bootleggers
Mikhail Gorbachev
42. 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).
Black Panthers
Edgar Allen Poe
Albany Plan
The Rosenbergs
43. 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
Tiananmen Sqaure
Taft-Hartley Act
Great Society
James Fenimore Cooper
44. 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.
Northwest Ordinance
Mercantilism
Boston Tea Party
Nuremburg Trials
45. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
American System
Alger Hiss
Tripartite Pact
46. 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
Checks and balances
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Big stick diplomacy
47. 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.
Assembly line
Committee to Defend America First
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Leif Ericson
48. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
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Samuel Adams
First Great Awakening
Bay of Pigs
49. A prominant publisher who bought the New York Journal in the late 1890s. His paper - along with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World - engaged in yellow journalism - printing sensational reports of Spanish activities in Cuba in order to win a circulation
Anti-federalists
Bootleggers
William Randolph Hearst
Tiananmen Sqaure
50. 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.
Ross Perot
Lend-Lease Act
Annapolis Convention
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