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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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'
Gulf War
Lost generation
Gettysburg
To Secure These Rights
2. 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
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lend-Lease Act
Taft-Hartley Act
3. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
National Origins Act
Baby boom
Berlin Wall
Alger Hiss
4. 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
Boston Massacre
Axis powers
Mercantilism
5. Explored the northeast coast of North American in 1497 and 1498 - claiming Nova Scotia - Newfoundland - and the Grand Banks for England.
John Cabot
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Jay's Treaty
Camp David Accords
6. Founded in 1895 - the league spearheaded the prohibition movement during the Progressive Era.
Henry Clay
Anti-Saloon League
Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Fenimore Cooper
7. Theory of trade which stresses that a nation's economic strenght depends on exporting more than it imports. Britain's use of this policy manifested itself in the triangular trade and in a series of laws - such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673) - aim
Palmer Raids
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Mercantilism
8. 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.
Bootleggers
James Fenimore Cooper
Susan B. Anthony
Joint-stock companies
9. 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.
Silent Spring
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Atomic Energy Commission
The Beats
10. 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.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Civil Works Administration
Antietam
Fidel Castro
11. The largest battle of the Civil War. Widely considered to be the war's turning point - the battle marked the Union's first major victory in the East. The three-day campaign - from July 1 to 4 - 1863 - resulted in an unprecedented 51 -000 total casual
Checks and balances
Gettysburg
Deists
Treaty of Ghent
12. 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
Berlin Blockade
Andrew Carnegie
Assembly line
Anti-federalists
13. A time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in response to the Enlightenment's increased religious skepticism. Protestant ministers held revivals throughout the English colonies in America - stressing the need for indivi
Northwest Ordinance
Samuel de Champlain
First Great Awakening
Bootleggers
14. 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
CCC
Berlin Blockade
John Quincy Adams
Saddam Hussein
15. 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
First Great Awakening
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Mikhail Gorbachev
16. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
Walt Whitman
Civil Rights Act
Pendleton Act
Deists
17. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
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James Fenimore Cooper
Tiananmen Sqaure
Tripartite Pact
18. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Helsinki Accords
Brown v Board of Ed
19. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Berlin Wall
John C. Calhoun
Bank of the United States
20. 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).
Hartford Convention
Walt Whitman
Black Thursday
Edgar Allen Poe
21. 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
Treaty of San Lorenzo
AFL
American Civil Liberties Union
Articles of Confederation
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.
Samuel Adams
Black Power
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Age of Reason
23. 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
Roger Williams
Specie Circular
H. L. Mencken
Eugenics
24. 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
Puritans
Brown v Board of Ed
Henry Clay
Triangular Trade
25. 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
First Great Awakening
The Age of Reason
Winston Churchill
Treaty of Greenville
26. 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.
Missouri Compromise
Annapolis Convention
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Lend-Lease Act
27. 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
Mercantilism
Boxer Rebellion
Brown v Board of Ed
28. 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
The Age of Reason
Jane Addams
Boston Massacre
Gag rule
29. 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.
Earl Warren
Bootleggers
Camp David Accords
Annapolis Convention
30. On June 3 and 4 - 1989 - China's communist army brutally crushed a pro-democracy protest here in Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the US and China significantly soured as a result of the attack.
AFL
Tiananmen Sqaure
Bootleggers
Smith-Connolly Act
31. Once a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - he abandoned his nonviolent leanings and became a leader of the Black Nationalist movement in 1966. He coined the phrase "Black Power."
Pendleton Act
Bay of Pigs
Stokely Carmichael
Smith-Connolly Act
32. 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
Boston Massacre
Reaganomics
Eugenics
33. 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
Henry Cabot Lodge
Stokely Carmichael
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Helsinki Accords
34. 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
Camp meetings
Fidel Castro
Jimmy Carter
35. 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.
Henry Hudson
House Un-American Activities Committee
Horatio Alger
Mercantilism
36. 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
Berlin Blockade
Tripartite Pact
Battle of Britain
Cash-and-carry
37. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
Inflation
CIA
New Look
38. 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
Albany Plan
Atlantic Charter
Pendleton Act
Hartford Convention
39. 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
40. 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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gulf War
Eugenics
William Randolph Hearst
41. 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
Camp David Accords
The Awakening
Lend-Lease Act
American System
42. 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.
Dynamic conservatism
Atomic Energy Commission
Jacques Cartier
Berlin Blockade
43. Ronald Reagan's economic philosophy which held that a capitalist system free from taxation and government involvement would be most productive. Reagan believed that the prosperity of the rich upper class would "trickle down" to the poor.
To Secure These Rights
First Great Awakening
Hartford Convention
Reaganomics
44. 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.
Triangular Trade
Horatio Alger
Helsinki Accords
John Quincy Adams
45. 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
Saddam Hussein
Smith-Connolly Act
Boston Tea Party
Gag rule
46. 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.
Treaty of Greenville
James Buchanan
Specie Circular
Checks and balances
47. 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
J. Edgar Hoover
Henry David Thoreau
James Buchanan
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
48. The popular name for the Kansas Territory in 1856 after abolitionist John Brown led a massacre at a pro-slavery camp - setting off waves of violence. Brown's massacre was in protest to the recent establishment of Kansas as a slave state. Pro-slavery
Reaganomics
Anti-Imperialist League
Bleeding Kansas
Bank of the United States
49. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
John C. Calhoun
Boston Tea Party
Smith Act
Bank of the United States
50. 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
John Brown
Black codes
Hartford Convention
Atlantic Charter