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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Encomienda
Barbed Wire
Blacklist
Mass Production
2. The political position advocating sending free blacks to Liberia in Africa to reduce the number of them in the country-the more blacks that were freed - the fewer there would be in America. It was seen as a way of alleviating the danger of slave insu
Colonization
Dollar Diplomacy
Robber Baron
Secession
3. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Industrial Unionism
Mass Production
Ethnic Cleansing
Independent Counsel
4. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Injunction
Talkies
Scab
Planter
5. 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
Vertical Integration
Protective Tariff
Appeasement
6. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Second Wave of Feminism
Literacy Tests
Unlawful Combatants
Division of Powers
7. 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.
Telegraph
Royal Colony
Social Gospel
Scalawags
8. 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.
Urban Riots
Containment
Speculation
Intrastate Commerce
9. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Blacklist
Reserved Powers Clause
Bimetallists
Headright System
10. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Consumer Society
Gender Gap
Suburbia
Transcontinental Railway
11. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Hawks
Specie Circular
Black Codes
Bootleggers
12. 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
Scalawags
Teach-Ins
Guerrilla War
Proprietary Colony
13. 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
Subprime Mortgage
Medicaid
Carpetbaggers
14. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Proprietary Colony
Imperialism
Pro-Choice
Escalation
15. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Backlash
Escalation
Artsian
16. 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.
Anthracite Coal
Cabinet
Robber Baron
Cotton Gin
17. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Muckrackers
Militarism
Free Silverites
Speculation
18. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Unlawful Combatants
Medicare
Excise Tax
Protective Tariff
19. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Isolationism
Scab
Division of Powers
Margin Buying
20. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Gender Gap
Cabinet
Imperialism
21. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Suburbia
Jim Crow
Ethnic Cleansing
Universal Suffrage
22. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Bicameral Legislature
Yellow Journalism
Domino Theory
Scalawags
23. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Yellow Journalism
Ethnic Cleansing
Virtual Representation
Transcontinental Railway
24. 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.
White Flight
Interstate Commerce
Short-staple Cotton
Yellow-dog Contract
25. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Settlement House Movement
Progressive Movement
Summit Meeting
Cowboys
26. 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
Social Mobility
Judicial Review
Assembly Line
Bootleggers
27. 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.
Artsian
Checks and Balances
Social Mobility
Excise Tax
28. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Cotton Gin
Settlement House Movement
Confederation
Strict Constructionist
29. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations with an aim toward increasing its power and controlling those nations. This was a cause of WWI.
Imperialism
Independent Counsel
Checks and Balances
Loose Constructionist
30. The political position that opposes abortion.
Judicial Review
Planter
Pro-Life
Culture Wars
31. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Realist Movement
Talkies
Checks and Balances
Theocracy
32. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Scab
Consumer Society
Vertical Integration
Hawks
33. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Settlement House Movement
Interstate Commerce
Capitalism
Isolationism
34. An increase in number - volume - scope. In reference to the Vietnam War - it refers to the increase in the number of troops and the intensity of involvement by the United States.
Isolationism
Escalation
Initiative
Second Reconstruction
35. Machine-made or standardized parts that could be put together to make a product. Eli Whitney demonstrated to President John Adams in 1801 how a box of guns could be disassembled and reassembled randomly. Each part must be precision-made so that it wi
Mestizos
Robber Baron
Interchangeable Parts
Cabinet
36. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Virtual Representation
Poll Tax
Isolationism
Tenant Farming
37. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Speculation
Advertising
Excise Tax
Medicaid
38. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Jim Crow
Protectorate
Unlawful Combatants
39. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Interchangeable Parts
Theocracy
Rock and Roll
Supply-Side Economics
40. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N
Culture Wars
Separation of Powers
Transcontinental Railway
Nativism
41. 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
Mass Production
Backlash
Nativism
Vertical Integration
42. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Margin Buying
Summit Meeting
Vietnam Revisionism
Lynching
43. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Indentured Servitude
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Grandfather Clauses
Excise Tax
44. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Protective Tariff
Civil Rights Movement
Direct Primary
Isolationism
45. 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
Bailouts
Free Soil Position
Hawks
Black Codes
46. Agricultural labor system in the South following the era of slavery wherein a sharecropper could farm a piece of land in return for giving the landowner a share - usually half - of the crop.
Stagflation
Sharecropping
Nativism
Rock and Roll
47. 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
Veto
Domino Theory
Culture of the Quarters
Sharecropping
48. 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
New Frontier
Short-staple Cotton
Blacklist
Popular Sovereignty
49. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Cabinet
Technological Unemployment
Short-staple Cotton
50. The political belief that America's obvious future was to "o'er spread the continent -" in the words of John O'Sullivan in 1846. A corollary was that Americans would bring democracy to the "ignorant and inferior" peoples of the West. The Mexican War
Bush Doctrine
Manifest Destiny
Short-staple Cotton
War on Terror
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