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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Alger Hiss
Tripartite Pact
Detente
Atlantic Charter
2. 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
Triangular Trade
Berlin Blockade
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Susan B. Anthony
3. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
New Look
Boston Tea Party
Anti-Saloon League
Bank veto
4. 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
Puritans
Iran-Contra affair
John Cabot
Boston Tea Party
5. 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.
Samuel de Champlain
Lend-Lease Act
Earl Warren
The Rosenbergs
6. Created by JFK in 1961. The organization sends volunteer teachers - health workers - and engineers on two-year aid programs to Third World countries.
Tiananmen Sqaure
Treaty of Greenville
Peace Corps
Trust
7. 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
Cash-and-carry
First Great Awakening
Iran-Contra affair
New Look
8. 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 -
Popular Front
Alger Hiss
American System
Lost generation
9. 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.
Camp David Accords
Taft-Hartley Act
J. Edgar Hoover
Northwest Ordinance
10. 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
John Steinbeck
Horatio Alger
James Buchanan
11. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
Nuremburg Trials
Students for a Democratic Society
J. Edgar Hoover
Bay of Pigs
12. 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
Mercantilism
Boston Tea Party
Treaty of Ghent
Silent Spring
13. 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.
Nuremburg Trials
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Hudson
Carpetbaggers
14. 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.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Samuel Adams
Great Society
Northwest Ordinance
15. 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
Henry Hudson
Dynamic conservatism
Black Power
Susan B. Anthony
16. 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
New Look
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Earl Warren
Brown v Board of Ed
17. Head of the Manhatten Project - the secret American operation to develop the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
George Bush
Chinese Exclusion Act
Great Society
18. 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
The Rosenbergs
James Buchanan
Baby boom
19. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
Economic Opportunity Act
Axis powers
Battle of the Bulge
New Look
20. 1795 treaty which provided for the removal of British troops from American land and opened up limited trade with the British West Indies - but said nothing about British seizure of American ships or the impressment of American sailors. While the Amer
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21. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Massacre
Anti-Imperialist League
Battle of Britain
CCC
22. President of the Russian Republic in 1991 - when hard-line Communists attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. After helping to repel these hard-liners - he and the leaders of the other Soviet republics declared an end to the USSR - forcing Gorbache
Boris Yeltsin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Articles of Confederation
Winston Churchill
23. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Students for a Democratic Society
Albany Plan
24. 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.
Anti-Saloon League
Lend-Lease Act
Nuremburg Trials
Deists
25. Granted freedmen a few basic rights but also enforced heavy civil restrictions based on race. They were enacted in Southern states under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
Hartford Convention
Black codes
Eugenics
Puritans
26. 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
John Quincy Adams
Battle of Britain
Allies
Committee to Defend America First
27. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
To Secure These Rights
Fidel Castro
Joint-stock companies
Jimmy Carter
28. 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.
Alger Hiss
Smith Act
Bacon's Rebellion
Andrew Carnegie
29. 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
Salutary neglect
Susan B. Anthony
James Buchanan
30. 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.
Bull Moose Party
The Beats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
AAA
31. 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.
The Age of Reason
Black Power
James Fenimore Cooper
Chinese Exclusion Act
32. 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
William Randolph Hearst
The Beats
Bacon's Rebellion
Assembly line
33. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sedition Amendment
AFL
34. 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.
Smith-Connolly Act
Henry Clay
New Look
Black Thursday
35. 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.
American System
Henry Hudson
Lend-Lease Act
Treaty of Ghent
36. 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Checks and balances
Eugenics
Dynamic conservatism
37. A series of raids coordinated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Throughout 1910 - police and federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations in thirty-two cities. The raids resulted in more
Treaty of San Lorenzo
John Steinbeck
Puritans
Palmer Raids
38. A French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region between 1534 and 1542. He searched for a Northwest Passage - a waterway through which ships could cross the Americas and access Asia. He found no such passage but opened the region up to futu
John Adams
Brown v Board of Ed
Jacques Cartier
Puritans
39. Issued on August 14 - 1941 during a meeting between President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The charter outlined the ideal postwar world - condemned military aggression - asserted the right to national self-determination - a
Atlantic Charter
Earl Warren
Bay of Pigs
The Rosenbergs
40. Major American author in the 1930s. His novels depict simple - rural lives. His most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
John Steinbeck
Brown v Board of Ed
Lend-Lease Act
Berlin Blockade
41. 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.
Salutary neglect
Edgar Allen Poe
Treaty of Greenville
Andrew Carnegie
42. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Students for a Democratic Society
Bank veto
Ross Perot
43. 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.
William Randolph Hearst
National Origins Act
Camp David Accords
The Rosenbergs
44. 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.
Baby boom
Camp David Accords
Silent Spring
Jimmy Carter
45. 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
Horatio Alger
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Tiananmen Sqaure
Eugenics
46. 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
Baby boom
Triangular Trade
Bank of the United States
47. 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
Earl Warren
Assembly line
Hartford Convention
Mutual Assured Destruction
48. 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
Triangular Trade
Baby boom
Tiananmen Sqaure
49. 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.
A Century of Dishonor
Eugenics
Samuel de Champlain
Alger Hiss
50. 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
Nuremburg Trials
Allies
Sedition Amendment
Lost generation