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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Hudson
American Civil Liberties Union
Antietam
2. 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
Camp David Accords
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Corrupt bargain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. 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
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Andrew Carnegie
Tippecanoe
Treaty of Greenville
4. Republican - vice president to Ronald Reagan - and president of the US from 1989 to 1993. His presidency was marked by economic recession and US involvement in the Gulf War.
Tripartite Pact
George Bush
Camp David Accords
Dynamic conservatism
5. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Tripartite Pact
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leif Ericson
6. 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.
James Buchanan
First Great Awakening
Articles of Confederation
Battle of the Bulge
7. A Frenchman who explored the Great Lakes and established the first French colony in North America at Quebec in 1608.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel de Champlain
Smith Act
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
8. 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.
Tiananmen Sqaure
John C. Calhoun
Big stick diplomacy
To Secure These Rights
9. 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
Detente
Battle of Britain
Economic Opportunity Act
Salutary neglect
10. A reformer and pacifist best known for founding Hull House in 1889. Hull House provided educational services to poor immigrants.
Black Panthers
Atomic Energy Commission
Jane Addams
Bank of the United States
11. 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
Bootleggers
Puritans
Nuremburg Trials
The Age of Reason
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
Anti-federalists
Boston Tea Party
First Great Awakening
Lost generation
13. Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He aggressively intestigated suspected subversives during the Cold War.
Bank of the United States
The Age of Reason
J. Edgar Hoover
Leif Ericson
14. 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."
Atlantic Charter
Stokely Carmichael
J. Edgar Hoover
James Fenimore Cooper
15. 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.
Tippecanoe
John Quincy Adams
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
House Un-American Activities Committee
16. Was the leader of Iraq. In August 1990 - he lead an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - sparking the Gulf War.
John Quincy Adams
George Bush
Annapolis Convention
Saddam Hussein
17. During McCarthyism - provided the congressional forum in which many hearings about suspected communists in the government took place.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Popular Front
House Un-American Activities Committee
Mikhail Gorbachev
18. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Jacques Cartier
Winston Churchill
Baby boom
Shoot-on-sight order
19. 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.
Berlin Wall
John Brown
George Bush
Camp David Accords
20. 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
Axis powers
Edgar Allen Poe
Deists
21. Founded in 1886 - this organization sought to organize craft unions into a federation. The loose structure of the organization differed from its rival - the Knights of Labor - in that it allowed individual unions to remain autonomous. Eventually the
Bacon's Rebellion
AFL
Jay's Treaty
American System
22. Issued in 1941 in response to German submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic ocean. The order authorized naval patrols to fire on any Axis ships found between the US and Iceland.
Deists
Mercantilism
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Shoot-on-sight order
23. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal. This administration controlled the production and prices of crops by offering subsidies to farmers who stayed under set quotas. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in the Butler v US decision - in
The Rosenbergs
Saddam Hussein
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Axis powers
24. 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
Henry Hudson
Boston Tea Party
Trust
Edgar Allen Poe
25. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Assembly line
Civil Rights Act
26. 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.
Bay of Pigs
Earl Warren
Black Thursday
Mikhail Gorbachev
27. 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.
Eugenics
George Bush
James Buchanan
Bill of Rights
28. 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
Civil Works Administration
Berlin Blockade
Bleeding Kansas
H. L. Mencken
29. Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. This coalition fought against the Allies (Great Britain - France - Italy). In 1917 - the US joined the war effort against them.
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Central Powers
Berlin Wall
30. 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
The Rosenbergs
John Quincy Adams
The Age of Reason
31. 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
Dynamic conservatism
The Beats
Peace Corps
Earl Warren
32. 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
Axis powers
Tripartite Pact
Annapolis Convention
33. Chartered in 1791 - the bank was a controversial part of Hamilton's Federalist economic program.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dynamic conservatism
Popular Front
Bank of the United States
34. 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
Leif Ericson
Atomic Energy Commission
Anti-Saloon League
Mutual Assured Destruction
35. 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.
John C. Calhoun
Bank veto
Mikhail Gorbachev
Pendleton Act
36. A dissenter who clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of seperation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 - he traveled south - where he founded a colony in Rhode Island that granted full religious freedom
Jay's Treaty
Antietam
Roger Williams
The Awakening
37. 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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38. 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.
Peace Corps
Trust
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Henry Hudson
39. 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.
AAA
Helsinki Accords
Sedition Amendment
Joint-stock companies
40. 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
Lend-Lease Act
The Awakening
Battle of Britain
Cuban Missile Crisis
41. 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
Northwest Ordinance
Lost generation
Baby boom
The Age of Reason
42. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Anti-federalists
Smith Act
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. 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
Lost generation
Triangular Trade
Samuel Adams
Henry Hudson
44. 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
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45. 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
The Age of Reason
Antietam
Mercantilism
Fidel Castro
46. In March 1770 - a crowd of colonists protested against Boston customs agents and the Townsend Duties. Violence flared and five colonists were killed.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Popular Front
Anti-Saloon League
47. Signed with Spain in 1795. This treaty granted the US unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and removed Spanish troops from American land.
Missouri Compromise
Sedition Amendment
Cash-and-carry
Treaty of San Lorenzo
48. A communist revolutionary. Castro ousted an authoritarian regime in Cuba in 1959 and established the communist regime that remains in power to this day.
Black codes
Sedition Amendment
Fidel Castro
Anti-Imperialist League
49. 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
The Rosenbergs
William Randolph Hearst
Atomic Energy Commission
Henry Clay
50. A report issued in 1957 by Truman's Presidential Committee on Civil Rights. The report called form the elimination of segregation.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
William Jennings Bryan
Checks and balances
To Secure These Rights
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