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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Artsian
Speculation
Bicameral Legislature
2. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Second Reconstruction
Horizontal Integration
Assembly Line
Popular Sovereignty
3. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Summit Meeting
Free Labor
Reserved Powers Clause
Mass Production
4. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Teach-Ins
McCarthyism
Pro-Choice
Doves
5. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
Direct Democracy
Free Soil Position
Horizontal Integration
Medicaid
6. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Stagflation
Assembly Line
Interstate Commerce
Patroonship
7. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
Judicial Review
War on Terror
Culture of the Quarters
Alliances
8. Blacks who had been freed from slavery or were not born slaves. They lived in the cities and countryside in both the North and the South. In 1860 - there were about 500 -000 free blacks evenly distributed between the North and the South.
Interstate Commerce
Colonization
Bush Doctrine
Free Blacks
9. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Free Blacks
Vietnam Revisionism
Black Power
Pragmatism
10. A method of mass production whereby the products are moved from worker to worker - with each person performing a small - repetitive task on the product and sending it to the next for a different task until the finished item is assembled. In the 18th
Veto
Assembly Line
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Free Soil Position
11. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Sharecropping
Black Codes
Interchangeable Parts
Cowboys
12. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Elastic Clause
Dollar Diplomacy
Consumer Society
Reserved Powers Clause
13. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Horizontal Integration
Stagflation
Primogeniture
Jim Crow
14. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Temperance Movement
Separation of Powers
Self-Governing Colony
Direct Primary
15. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.
Nationalism
Yellow Journalism
Delegated Powers
Intrastate Commerce
16. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Cowboys
Tariff
Planter
Conflict Historiography
17. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Baby Boom
Ethnic Cleansing
Elastic Clause
Mestizos
18. An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods is determined by individual consumer preference. It is characterized by the free-enterprise system - competition - profit motive - and pricing based on the laws of supply and demand
Pro-Choice
Capitalism
Artsian
Rugged Individualism
19. The policy used by the British before the War of 1812 wherein the British stopped US vessels and removed sailors from them to be used on British naval vessels. it was also used to a limited extent by the French during this same period. It was one of
Culture Wars
Impressment
Medicaid
Grandfather Clauses
20. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Specie Circular
Technological Unemployment
New Left
Bimetallists
21. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
Vertical Integration
Colonization
Guerrilla War
Interchangeable Parts
22. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Nonaggression Treaty
Urban Riots
Internal Improvements
Joint Stock Company
23. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Excise Tax
Free Labor
Lynching
24. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Black Power
Teenagers
Jim Crow
Speakeasies
25. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.
White Flight
Telegraph
Short-staple Cotton
Bootleggers
26. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Dollar Diplomacy
Sit-Ins
Yellow-dog Contract
Loyalty Oaths
27. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market
Margin Buying
Division of Powers
War on Terror
Interchangeable Parts
28. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Cotton Gin
Summit Meeting
Elastic Clause
Transcontinental Railway
29. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Suburbia
Family Values
Confederation
Temperance Movement
30. The Eisenhower-era theory that one communist country would infiltrate or influence its neighbors - supporting insurrection there and causing them to become communist too. They would fall like a series of dominoes standing close together. Kennedy - Jo
Theory of Perpetual Union
Short-staple Cotton
Family Values
Domino Theory
31. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Initiative
Sharecropping
Containment
Puppet Regimes
32. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.
Great Society
War on Terror
Yellow-dog Contract
Supply-Side Economics
33. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Political Machines
Appeasement
Poll Tax
Joint Stock Company
34. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.
Appeasement
Division of Powers
Pro-Life
Puppet Regimes
35. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Interchangeable Parts
Proprietary Colony
Realist Movement
Boston Tea Party
36. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Democracy
Joint Stock Company
Anthracite Coal
37. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Unlawful Combatants
Isolationism
Direct Primary
Subprime Mortgage
38. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Mestizos
Self-Governing Colony
Tenant Farming
39. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Division of Powers
Impressment
Direct Primary
Tariff
40. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Direct Primary
Joint Stock Company
Baby Boom
Blacklist
41. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Imperialism
Primogeniture
Separation of Powers
Speculation
42. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Compassionate Conservatism
Craft Unionism
Second Wave of Feminism
43. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Unions
Baby Boom
44. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
New Left
Backlash
Craft Unionism
Technological Unemployment
45. A person who believes in the broad interpretation of the US Constitution; that is - that the Constitution does not have to be interpreted word by word. Alexander Hamilton supported this idea.
Interchangeable Parts
Temperance Movement
Loose Constructionist
Escalation
46. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Strict Constructionist
Doves
Manifest Destiny
Injunction
47. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Headright System
Primogeniture
Bimetallists
Second Reconstruction
48. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Settlement House Movement
Lynching
Ratification
Culture Wars
49. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Bailouts
Cowboys
Assembly Line
Universal Manhood Suffrage
50. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Suburbia
Joint Stock Company
McCarthyism
Yellow-dog Contract
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