Facts and Details in U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History from 1899 to the Present

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SAT Subject Test in United States History › Facts and Details in U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History from 1899 to the Present

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Who was the American author, known for his novels The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) among other works, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962?

2

Who developed the first reliable polio vaccine in 1955?

3

Malcolm X is most closely identified with the organization known as __________.

4

Who made the first controlled and sustained flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft?

5

Who was the main proponent of Alternating Current (as opposed to Direct Current) electricity?

6

The counterculture of the 1960s was exemplified by all but which of the following?

7

Timothy Leary is most closely associated with research into __________.

8

Who is responsible for the first assembly line for the mass production of an automobile?

9

This book was a cautionary tale about the decadence and idealism of the 1920s

10

Who was the author of the muckraking book The History of the Standard Oil Company?

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