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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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
Anti-federalists
Jimmy Carter
Boston Tea Party
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Alger Hiss
Berlin Blockade
A Century of Dishonor
Allies
3. 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
To Secure These Rights
Bull Moose Party
Battle of Britain
Horatio Alger
4. 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
Brown v Board of Ed
Puritans
Carpetbaggers
Leif Ericson
5. 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
Gettysburg
Missouri Compromise
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Buchanan
6. 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.
Peace Corps
To Secure These Rights
Corrupt bargain
Annapolis Convention
7. 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.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Leif Ericson
American System
Saddam Hussein
8. 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
First Great Awakening
Missouri Compromise
William Randolph Hearst
Boston Tea Party
9. 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.
Corrupt bargain
The Feminine Mystique
Camp meetings
House Un-American Activities Committee
10. The alleged leader of a group of Vikings who sailed to the eastern coast of Canada and attempted - unsuccessfully - to colonize the area around the year 1000- nearly 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
Committee to Defend America First
National Origins Act
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Leif Ericson
11. 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.
Camp David Accords
Civil Works Administration
Boxer Rebellion
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
12. 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
Hartford Convention
House Un-American Activities Committee
Tippecanoe
Puritans
13. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
John Adams
Bootleggers
Students for a Democratic Society
Jane Addams
14. 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
Ross Perot
George Bush
Lend-Lease Act
Black codes
15. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Battle of the Bulge
Assembly line
F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. 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.
Tripartite Pact
First Great Awakening
Henry David Thoreau
The Feminine Mystique
17. 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.
Hartford Convention
Black Panthers
James Fenimore Cooper
Treaty of Greenville
18. A leading member of the women's suffrage movement. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
Gulf War
Susan B. Anthony
Anti-Imperialist League
Inflation
19. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
Palmer Raids
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Edgar Allen Poe
Bank of the United States
20. 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
Roger Williams
Triangular Trade
Samuel Adams
Samuel de Champlain
21. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
H. L. Mencken
Battle of Britain
House Un-American Activities Committee
Edgar Allen Poe
22. 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.
Deists
Tiananmen Sqaure
Winston Churchill
Black Thursday
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.
Taft-Hartley Act
The Feminine Mystique
Eugenics
Smith-Connolly Act
24. 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
Anti-federalists
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ernest Hemingway
25. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Specie Circular
Tripartite Pact
Bay of Pigs
26. 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
Treaty of Ghent
Nuremburg Trials
Chinese Exclusion Act
27. 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
Pendleton Act
CCC
Black Panthers
28. Writer who satirized political leaders and American society in the 1920s. His magazine American Mercury served as the journalistic counterpart to the postwar disillusionment of the "lost generation."
H. L. Mencken
James Fenimore Cooper
Walt Whitman
Big stick diplomacy
29. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Smith-Connolly Act
Committee to Defend America First
Detente
30. 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
John C. Calhoun
George Bush
Articles of Confederation
Berlin Wall
31. 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
House Un-American Activities Committee
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Carpetbaggers
John Quincy Adams
32. 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
Camp David Accords
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bull Moose Party
33. 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.
John Brown
Samuel Adams
Black codes
Mercantilism
34. 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.
James Buchanan
Black Thursday
Puritans
First Great Awakening
35. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Inflation
AAA
John Adams
Cash-and-carry
36. 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
Fidel Castro
Bank veto
Mikhail Gorbachev
John Steinbeck
37. 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
John Cabot
Walt Whitman
Gulf War
38. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
The Beats
Missouri Compromise
John Brown
Samuel de Champlain
39. 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.
Leif Ericson
Smith Act
Anti-Saloon League
Samuel Adams
40. 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
Detente
The Age of Reason
Henry David Thoreau
John Adams
41. A moderate Democrat with support from both the North and South who served as president of the US from 1857 to 1861. He could not stem the tide of sectional conflict that eventually erupted into Civil War.
Specie Circular
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Checks and balances
James Buchanan
42. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
AAA
A Century of Dishonor
Tripartite Pact
43. 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
Earl Warren
Mercantilism
Berlin Wall
Articles of Confederation
44. 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.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Horatio Alger
Berlin Blockade
John Steinbeck
45. 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
Peace Corps
Bull Moose Party
CCC
Brown v Board of Ed
46. 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
Black codes
Trust
Silent Spring
American Civil Liberties Union
47. A component of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. This act established an Office of Economic Opportunity to provide young Americans with job training. It also created a volunteer network devoted to social work and education in impovershed areas.
AFL
Henry Hudson
Smith Act
Economic Opportunity Act
48. 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
Fidel Castro
Trust
Corrupt bargain
Albany Plan
49. 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.
Winston Churchill
Jimmy Carter
Lost generation
H. L. Mencken
50. 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
Anti-Imperialist League
Checks and balances
Big stick diplomacy
Missouri Compromise
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