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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Installment Plans
Sit-Down Strike
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Yellow-dog Contract
2. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Teach-Ins
Tenant Farming
Separation of Powers
Grandfather Clauses
3. 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
White Flight
Second Reconstruction
Culture Wars
Anti-Communism
4. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Free Soil Position
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Rugged Individualism
Domino Theory
5. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Militarism
Cabinet
Pragmatism
Doves
6. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Free Silverites
Sit-Ins
Unlawful Combatants
Mestizos
7. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Abolitionism
Protective Tariff
Jim Crow
Isolationism
8. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Anthracite Coal
Transcontinental Railway
Free Silverites
Mortgage-Backed Securities
9. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Kyoto Protocol
Civil Rights Movement
Consumer Society
Theocracy
10. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Indentured Servitude
Mercantilism
Robber Baron
Carpetbaggers
11. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Blacklist
Ratification
Proprietary Colony
Conflict Historiography
12. 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
Summit Meeting
Free Soil Position
Theocracy
Reserved Powers Clause
13. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Excise Tax
Court Packing Scheme
War on Terror
McCarthyism
14. 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
Elastic Clause
Contraband of War
Rugged Individualism
Ecology
15. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
White Flight
Universal Suffrage
Artsian
Horizontal Integration
16. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Blacklist
Bailouts
Black Codes
Rock and Roll
17. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Navigation Acts
Muckrackers
Horizontal Integration
18. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
War on Terror
Independent Counsel
Primogeniture
Craft Unionism
19. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Joint Stock Company
Planter
Democracy
Abolitionism
20. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Joint Stock Company
Encomienda
War on Poverty
Self-Governing Colony
21. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Specie Circular
Pro-Life
Muckrackers
Indentured Servitude
22. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Medicare
Protectorate
Socialism
Artsian
23. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it
War on Poverty
Internal Improvements
Guerrilla War
White Flight
24. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Spoils System
Free Soil Position
Puppet Regimes
Navigation Acts
25. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.
Separation of Powers
Carpetbaggers
Mercantilism
Socialism
26. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Family Values
Blacklist
Navigation Acts
Unicameral Legislature
27. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Compact Theory
Culture of the Quarters
Industrial Unionism
Medicare
28. The study of the environment.
Great Society
Independent Counsel
Ecology
Scab
29. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Urban Riots
Barbed Wire
Impeachment
Rugged Individualism
30. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Carpetbaggers
Rugged Individualism
Elastic Clause
Bootleggers
31. 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
Colonization
Impressment
Black Codes
Second Reconstruction
32. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Theocracy
Vietnam Revisionism
Muckrackers
Alliances
33. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Gender Gap
Guerrilla War
Loose Constructionist
Bicameral Legislature
34. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Protectorate
Rock and Roll
Technological Unemployment
35. 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.
Muckrackers
Vertical Integration
Suburbia
Escalation
36. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Court Packing Scheme
Imperialism
Blacklist
Direct Democracy
37. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Direct Primary
Industrial Unionism
Compassionate Conservatism
Blacklist
38. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Progressive Movement
Ratification
Anthracite Coal
39. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Virtual Representation
Suburbia
Bicameral Legislature
Summit Meeting
40. The practice of victorious candidates distributing government jobs to friends and supporters rather than to the most qualified people. Andre Jackson gave his supporters the spoils of victory - whereas John Quincy Adams by and large did not.
Spoils System
Supply-Side Economics
Mass Production
Installment Plans
41. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Grandfather Clauses
Containment
Isolationism
Royal Colony
42. 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.
Summit Meeting
Ecology
Medicaid
Strict Constructionist
43. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Nonaggression Treaty
Medicare
Artsian
Social Mobility
44. 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
New Immigration
Scalawags
Democracy
Margin Buying
45. The idea that machinery eliminates the need for human employment-that the development of new machine-based methods of work can lead to workers' losing their jobs.
Isolationism
Technological Unemployment
Teenagers
Indentured Servitude
46. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Suburbia
Sit-Down Strike
Unlawful Combatants
Gender Gap
47. The idea that the Constitution was created by the states and so the states could dissolve it. This was advocated first by Madison and Jefferson in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and later by Robert Y Hayne in his debate with Daniel Web
Delegated Powers
Virtual Representation
Compact Theory
Impressment
48. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Tenant Farming
Socialism
Assembly Line
49. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Secession
Alliances
Transcontinental Railway
Protectorate
50. 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.
Intrastate Commerce
Contraband of War
Tariff
Self-Governing Colony