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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
Battle of the Bulge
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Assembly line
Berlin Blockade
2. 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 Works Administration
Lost generation
The Age of Reason
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
3. 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.
Allies
Bootleggers
Black Panthers
John Cabot
4. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Henry Hudson
Bleeding Kansas
J. Edgar Hoover
5. Signed by 12 Native American tribes after their defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The treaty cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to US settlement.
A Century of Dishonor
Ross Perot
Treaty of Greenville
Economic Opportunity Act
6. 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.
The Feminine Mystique
Andrew Carnegie
Specie Circular
Bank veto
7. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Tripartite Pact
Civil Works Administration
Cash-and-carry
Sacco-Vanzetti case
8. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
AAA
Tiananmen Sqaure
Gag rule
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.
AFL
Tippecanoe
Popular Front
Iran-Contra affair
10. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
American Civil Liberties Union
Quasi-war
Saddam Hussein
John Adams
11. 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 -
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The Beats
Alger Hiss
J. Edgar Hoover
12. 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
Battle of Britain
To Secure These Rights
Winston Churchill
Nuremburg Trials
13. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Horatio Alger
Central Powers
Jane Addams
Mikhail Gorbachev
14. 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
Carpetbaggers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lend-Lease Act
Earl Warren
15. 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
The Beats
Assembly line
Civil Works Administration
Stokely Carmichael
16. 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
William Jennings Bryan
Peace Corps
Gag rule
Berlin Blockade
17. 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.
Black Power
Assembly line
A Century of Dishonor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Passed in 1930. This act limited the right to strike in key industries and authorized the president to intervene in any strike - eroding the generally amiable relationship between the government and organized labor during World War II.
Quasi-war
Boxer Rebellion
Smith-Connolly Act
Detente
19. 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
American Civil Liberties Union
Students for a Democratic Society
Jacques Cartier
Edgar Allen Poe
20. 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
Boston Tea Party
Earl Warren
John C. Calhoun
Walt Whitman
21. 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
Axis powers
Jacques Cartier
Taft-Hartley Act
Triangular Trade
22. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Lend-Lease Act
Boris Yeltsin
Samuel Adams
23. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
The Feminine Mystique
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brown v Board of Ed
24. 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
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lost generation
25. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
To Secure These Rights
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of Greenville
Mikhail Gorbachev
26. 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.
Leif Ericson
Allies
Atomic Energy Commission
John Brown
27. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Axis powers
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Economic Opportunity Act
American System
28. 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
CIA
Civil Rights Act
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Northwest Ordinance
29. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
H. L. Mencken
Students for a Democratic Society
Susan B. Anthony
Bleeding Kansas
30. 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.
Students for a Democratic Society
New Look
Bank veto
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31. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Missouri Compromise
Mutual Assured Destruction
Economic Opportunity Act
32. 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
Deists
Earl Warren
Cash-and-carry
Anti-federalists
33. 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
The Feminine Mystique
Detente
Winston Churchill
34. 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
Samuel Adams
Corrupt bargain
John Quincy Adams
Sacco-Vanzetti case
35. 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
Hartford Convention
Samuel de Champlain
Missouri Compromise
Samuel Adams
36. 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
Tripartite Pact
Camp David Accords
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Students for a Democratic Society
37. 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
Great Society
Peace Corps
The Age of Reason
Students for a Democratic Society
38. In 1962 - a year after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion - the US government learned that Soviet missile bases were being constructed in Cuba. President JFK demanded that the USSR stop shipping military equipment to Cuba and remove the bases. US forces
Albany Plan
Lost generation
Cuban Missile Crisis
Antietam
39. 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
Fidel Castro
Earl Warren
Brown v Board of Ed
40. 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
Hartford Convention
Articles of Confederation
Eugenics
Iran-Contra affair
41. 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
Annapolis Convention
Dynamic conservatism
First Great Awakening
42. 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
Silent Spring
Battle of the Bulge
Reaganomics
Leif Ericson
43. The last Soviet political leader. He became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and president of the USSR in 1988. He helped ease tension between the US and the USSR- work that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He oversaw the fal
The Rosenbergs
Mikhail Gorbachev
Cash-and-carry
Battle of Britain
44. Crafted by Henry Clay and backed by the National Republican Party - this plan proposed a series of tariffs and federally funded transportation imporvements - geared toward acheiving national economic self-sufficiency.
Smith-Connolly Act
Boston Massacre
Economic Opportunity Act
American System
45. 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
Detente
Henry Cabot Lodge
Silent Spring
Cash-and-carry
46. 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
Jane Addams
AFL
Ernest Hemingway
47. 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.
Popular Front
Samuel Adams
Boston Tea Party
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. 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.
Palmer Raids
Bank of the United States
Earl Warren
Mikhail Gorbachev
49. 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.
Baby boom
Tiananmen Sqaure
Ernest Hemingway
Horatio Alger
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
Specie Circular
Atomic Energy Commission
Chinese Exclusion Act
Boxer Rebellion