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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Mercantilism
Reserved Powers Clause
Virtual Representation
Planter
2. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Homesteaders
Muckrackers
Internal Improvements
Impressment
3. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Civil Rights Movement
Medicaid
Ratification
Reserved Powers Clause
4. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Contraband of War
Sit-Ins
Impeachment
5. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Cowboys
Supply-Side Economics
Excise Tax
Rock and Roll
6. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Jim Crow
Black Power
Muckrackers
7. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Realist Movement
Universal Suffrage
Mercantilism
Tariff
8. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Division of Powers
Impeachment
Mercantilism
Literacy Tests
9. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Advertising
Mestizos
Yellow-dog Contract
Imperialism
10. 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
Doves
Culture of the Quarters
Protective Tariff
Domino Theory
11. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Medicare
Black Power
Referendum
Ethnic Cleansing
12. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Cotton Gin
Ethnic Cleansing
Social Mobility
13. 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.
Tenant Farming
Protective Tariff
Puppet Regimes
Spoils System
14. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Contraband of War
Compassionate Conservatism
Bimetallists
Cold War
15. 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
New Frontier
Specie Circular
Lynching
Guerrilla War
16. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Secession
Progressive Movement
Kyoto Protocol
Vertical Integration
17. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Injunction
Muckrackers
Abolitionism
Cowboys
18. 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
Spoils System
Internal Improvements
New Immigration
Ratification
19. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Sit-Ins
Blue Laws
Anthracite Coal
Unions
20. A political system dominated by two parties. Voters reluctance to support third parties reinforces the two-party system. The first two-party system - dating back to the 1970s - included the Federalist and Republican Parties. The current two-party sys
Carpetbaggers
Two-Party System
Ratification
Court Packing Scheme
21. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
War on Terror
Royal Colony
Pro-Choice
Tenant Farming
22. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Domino Theory
Transcontinental Railway
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Settlement House Movement
23. 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
Court Packing Scheme
Impeachment
Nativism
Mestizos
24. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Democracy
Judicial Review
Conflict Historiography
Royal Colony
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.
Bailouts
Mass Production
Protectorate
Telegraph
26. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Compact Theory
Theory of Perpetual Union
Manifest Destiny
27. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Protective Tariff
Loyalty Oaths
Direct Primary
28. 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
Mass Production
Margin Buying
Secession
McCarthyism
29. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Mestizos
Scab
Advertising
Teach-Ins
30. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
New Immigration
Impressment
Grandfather Clauses
31. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Strict Constructionist
Popular Sovereignty
Initiative
32. The power of the president to reject legislation. The US Congress can override a veto by the US president if it can pass the legislation by a two-thirds majority.
Veto
Pragmatism
Ethnic Cleansing
Direct Democracy
33. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe
Tariff
Checks and Balances
Independent Counsel
Nationalism
34. 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.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Loose Constructionist
Poll Tax
Conflict Historiography
35. 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
Teach-Ins
Nativism
Compact Theory
Bicameral Legislature
36. 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.
Jim Crow
Industrial Unionism
Rock and Roll
Vietnam Revisionism
37. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Baby Boom
Elastic Clause
Kyoto Protocol
Jim Crow
38. 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
Socialism
Joint Stock Company
Initiative
Urban Riots
39. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Bicameral Legislature
Judicial Review
Suburbia
Laissez-Faire
40. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Advertising
Interstate Commerce
Primogeniture
Cowboys
41. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Unions
Artsian
Backlash
Advertising
42. 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
Backlash
Unlawful Combatants
Telegraph
Mass Production
43. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Political Machines
New Left
Separation of Powers
Militarism
44. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Theocracy
Elastic Clause
Strict Constructionist
Dollar Diplomacy
45. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Self-Governing Colony
Pro-Choice
Separation of Powers
Anthracite Coal
46. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Supply-Side Economics
Assembly Line
Universal Suffrage
Free Soil Position
47. 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
Isolationism
Puppet Regimes
Judicial Review
Intrastate Commerce
48. 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.
Teach-Ins
Self-Governing Colony
Court Packing Scheme
Separation of Powers
49. 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.
Royal Colony
Pragmatism
Talkies
Vertical Integration
50. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Cold War
Trusts
Navigation Acts
Separation of Powers
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