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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History
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1. 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.
Bill of Rights
Ross Perot
Committee to Defend America First
Popular Front
2. A third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election who won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing demonstrated voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties.
Ross Perot
Joint-stock companies
American Civil Liberties Union
Eugenics
3. 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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4. 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.
Great Society
Samuel Adams
Gettysburg
Black Thursday
5. During World War II - this alliance included Germany - Italy - and Japan. The three powers signed the Tripartite Pact in September 1940.
National Origins Act
Great Society
Horatio Alger
Axis powers
6. Signed in September 1940 by Germany - Italy - and Japan. These nations comprised the Axis powers of World War II.
New Look
Nuremburg Trials
Economic Opportunity Act
Tripartite Pact
7. 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
Boxer Rebellion
Great Society
Anti-federalists
Allies
8. Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Democratic-Republican support. On the grounds of "national security -" the acts increased the number of years required to gain citizenship - allowed for the imprisonment and depo
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bank of the United States
Alger Hiss
Committee to Defend America First
9. The English government's policy of not enforcing certain trade laws it imposed upon the American colonies throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The purpose of this policy was largely to ensure the loyalty of the colonies in
Lend-Lease Act
Salutary neglect
Horatio Alger
Detente
10. 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.
Jane Addams
Economic Opportunity Act
American System
Anti-Imperialist League
11. Passed in 1918 as an amendment to the Espionage Act. Provided for the punishment of anyone using "disloyal - profane - scurrilous - or abusive language" in regard to the US government - flag - or military.
Jay's Treaty
Checks and balances
Sedition Amendment
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
12. 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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
National Origins Act
Nuremburg Trials
Ross Perot
13. Created in 1933 as part of FDR's New Deal - this organization pumped money into the economy by employing the destitute in conservation and other projects.
Roger Williams
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tippecanoe
CCC
14. 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
Dynamic conservatism
Hartford Convention
John C. Calhoun
The Age of Reason
15. 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
Specie Circular
Missouri Compromise
Economic Opportunity Act
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
16. 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.
Reaganomics
CCC
Bull Moose Party
Gulf War
17. 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
Bootleggers
Black Panthers
Bull Moose Party
Lost generation
18. 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
Detente
Bleeding Kansas
John C. Calhoun
Ernest Hemingway
19. 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
Lend-Lease Act
Atomic Energy Commission
Black codes
To Secure These Rights
20. 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.
Earl Warren
Specie Circular
Helsinki Accords
A Century of Dishonor
21. Argued against American imperialism in the late 1890s. Its members included William James - Andrew Carnegie - and Mark Twain.
Henry David Thoreau
Articles of Confederation
Samuel de Champlain
Anti-Imperialist League
22. 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.
Henry Hudson
Winston Churchill
Taft-Hartley Act
Big stick diplomacy
23. 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.
Horatio Alger
Bay of Pigs
Ralph Waldo Emerson
AFL
24. 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 Steinbeck
Big stick diplomacy
The Age of Reason
Berlin Wall
25. 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.
Anti-federalists
Palmer Raids
Black Panthers
The Beats
26. A failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in April 1961.
To Secure These Rights
Bay of Pigs
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Dynamic conservatism
27. 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
Black Panthers
The Beats
Lost generation
Detente
28. 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.
Iran-Contra affair
Ernest Hemingway
Jimmy Carter
Pendleton Act
29. 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 Cabot
Walt Whitman
Jimmy Carter
Bank veto
30. 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
Triangular Trade
Specie Circular
Economic Opportunity Act
Jacques Cartier
31. Nickname for the 1950s - when economic prosperity caused US population to swell from 150 million to 180 million.
Articles of Confederation
Baby boom
Black codes
Jane Addams
32. The increase of available paper money and bank credit - leading to higher prices and less valuable currency.
Peace Corps
Inflation
A Century of Dishonor
John C. Calhoun
33. 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.
Gettysburg
Black Power
Triangular Trade
Stokely Carmichael
34. 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
Allies
Roger Williams
Henry Cabot Lodge
Detente
35. 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.
Black Thursday
Palmer Raids
Mercantilism
Andrew Carnegie
36. The series of French and American naval conflicts occuring between 1798 and 1800.
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Quasi-war
Bill of Rights
37. 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
Peace Corps
Battle of the Bulge
Civil Works Administration
Eugenics
38. 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.
Deists
Henry Hudson
The Feminine Mystique
Berlin Wall
39. Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent clergymen. Fought against segregation using nonviolent means.
Anti-federalists
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
James Buchanan
Black Power
40. 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
Atomic Energy Commission
John Quincy Adams
Central Powers
41. Created in 1962. United college students throughout the country in a network committed to achieving racial equality - alleviating poverty - and ending the Vietnam War.
Antietam
Students for a Democratic Society
Nuremburg Trials
Stokely Carmichael
42. A writer and a disciple of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His major work - Leaves of Grass (1855) - celebrated America's diversity and democracy.
John Quincy Adams
Smith Act
Walt Whitman
Axis powers
43. Early American fiction writer. His most famous work - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - explored the moral dilemmas of adultery in a Puritan community.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allen Poe
Jane Addams
Henry David Thoreau
44. 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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45. 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
Taft-Hartley Act
National Origins Act
Tippecanoe
Bull Moose Party
46. Passed by Congress in 1882 amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment among American workers. The act banned Chinese immigration for ten years.
Anti-Imperialist League
Bank veto
New Look
Chinese Exclusion Act
47. 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
Bank veto
Battle of the Bulge
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Wall
48. 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.
John Brown
Assembly line
Tripartite Pact
Silent Spring
49. 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
Trust
Edgar Allen Poe
Jimmy Carter
Brown v Board of Ed
50. Smugglers of alcohol into the US during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933) - often from Canada or the West Indies.
Gulf War
Bootleggers
Reaganomics
Boston Tea Party