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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Vertical Integration
Indentured Servitude
Gender Gap
Carpetbaggers
2. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Blacklist
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Vertical Integration
3. 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
Nationalism
Backlash
Gender Gap
Interchangeable Parts
4. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Injunction
Ratification
Proprietary Colony
Delegated Powers
5. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Puppet Regimes
Mass Production
Contraband of War
Advertising
6. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Gender Gap
Imperialism
Industrial Unionism
Popular Sovereignty
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.
Black Power
New Immigration
War on Terror
Grandfather Clauses
8. The British policy of the 17th century in which the British were lax in the enforcement of laws in the colonies - thereby allowing the colonies to develop without much interference from the British government. After the French and Indian War - this p
Salutary Neglect
Judicial Review
Protectorate
Domino Theory
9. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Democracy
Craft Unionism
Sit-Ins
Black Codes
10. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Internal Improvements
War on Terror
Free Silverites
Transcontinental Railway
11. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Elastic Clause
Bootleggers
Direct Primary
Supply-Side Economics
12. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Colonization
Great Society
Nativism
Isolationism
13. 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
Initiative
Excise Tax
Isolationism
Reserved Powers Clause
14. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Imperialism
Political Machines
Domino Theory
Stagflation
15. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Secession
Popular Sovereignty
Socialism
Reserved Powers Clause
16. 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.
Backlash
Intrastate Commerce
Horizontal Integration
Black Power
17. The series of laws designed to create separation between the races. These were by and large Southern state laws made constitutional by the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
Domino Theory
Jim Crow
Reserved Powers Clause
Trusts
18. 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
Medicare
Loose Constructionist
Bailouts
Headright System
19. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Industrial Unionism
Patroonship
Elastic Clause
Protective Tariff
20. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Indentured Servitude
Short-staple Cotton
Black Codes
Loyalty Oaths
21. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called separation of powers.
Referendum
Internal Improvements
Checks and Balances
Sharecropping
22. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Scalawags
Internal Improvements
Unions
Weapons of Mass Destruction
23. 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.
Socialism
War on Terror
Carpetbaggers
Cabinet
24. The wave of immigration from the 1880s to the 1920s of Eastern and Southern Europeans - contrasted with the "old" immigration of Northern and Western Europeans.
Settlement House Movement
Imperialism
War on Poverty
New Immigration
25. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Popular Sovereignty
Pragmatism
Escalation
26. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Internal Improvements
Cold War
Separation of Powers
Homesteaders
27. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Excise Tax
Telegraph
Delegated Powers
Second Reconstruction
28. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Sit-Ins
Homesteaders
Medicare
Reserved Powers Clause
29. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Barbed Wire
Internal Improvements
Strict Constructionist
Patroonship
30. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Medicare
Isolationism
Puppet Regimes
Joint Stock Company
31. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
White Flight
Sit-Ins
Containment
Jim Crow
32. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Boston Tea Party
Judicial Review
Bush Doctrine
Sharecropping
33. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Gender Gap
Encomienda
Protective Tariff
34. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Royal Colony
Domino Theory
Ethnic Cleansing
Abolitionism
35. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Two-Party System
Sit-Down Strike
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Realist Movement
36. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Socialism
Vertical Integration
Abolitionism
Sharecropping
37. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Telegraph
Baby Boom
Settlement House Movement
Horizontal Integration
38. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Consumer Society
Cold War
Kyoto Protocol
Bimetallists
39. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Theocracy
Juvenile Delinquency
New Immigration
Elastic Clause
40. 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.
Internal Improvements
Telegraph
Medicare
Sharecropping
41. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Teach-Ins
Trusts
White Flight
Tariff
42. 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.
Two-Party System
Realist Movement
Joint Stock Company
Speculation
43. 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.
Medicare
Unicameral Legislature
Strict Constructionist
Containment
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
Jim Crow
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Margin Buying
Bimetallists
45. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Lynching
Suburbia
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
46. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Telegraph
Temperance Movement
Self-Governing Colony
Intrastate Commerce
47. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Speakeasies
Unlawful Combatants
White Flight
Grandfather Clauses
48. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Talkies
Dollar Diplomacy
Settlement House Movement
49. 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
Assembly Line
Consciousness-Raising Groups
White Flight
Yellow Journalism
50. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Veto
Muckrackers
Reserved Powers Clause
Bicameral Legislature