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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.
Interchangeable Parts
Virtual Representation
Excise Tax
New Left
2. 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.
Barbed Wire
Judicial Review
Protectorate
War on Terror
3. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Settlement House Movement
Universal Suffrage
Craft Unionism
Nativism
4. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Doves
Tariff
Interstate Commerce
Mortgage-Backed Securities
5. 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
Capitalism
Domino Theory
Theocracy
Specie Circular
6. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Protectorate
Containment
White Flight
Veto
7. 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
Summit Meeting
Vietnam Revisionism
Carpetbaggers
Assembly Line
8. 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.
Settlement House Movement
Intrastate Commerce
Culture of the Quarters
Imperialism
9. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Free Labor
Elastic Clause
Referendum
10. 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.
Sit-Ins
Appeasement
Culture Wars
Speculation
11. 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
Democracy
Hawks
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
12. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Social Gospel
War on Poverty
Carpetbaggers
Culture of the Quarters
13. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
War on Poverty
Domino Theory
Homesteaders
Lynching
14. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Rugged Individualism
Installment Plans
Tariff
Summit Meeting
15. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Navigation Acts
Doves
War on Terror
16. 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.
Bailouts
Free Soil Position
Checks and Balances
Protective Tariff
17. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Cold War
Bailouts
Universal Suffrage
Direct Primary
18. 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
Loose Constructionist
Domino Theory
Civil Rights Movement
Contraband of War
19. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Artsian
Hawks
Lynching
Specie Circular
20. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Black Power
New Frontier
Independent Counsel
Baby Boom
21. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Encomienda
Great Society
Homesteaders
22. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Medicare
Craft Unionism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Literacy Tests
23. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Barbed Wire
Scalawags
Capitalism
Patroonship
24. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Transcontinental Railway
Indentured Servitude
Barbed Wire
Cowboys
25. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Isolationism
Socialism
Veto
26. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Protectorate
Joint Stock Company
Industrial Unionism
Subprime Mortgage
27. 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
Capitalism
Free Labor
Assembly Line
Cotton Gin
28. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Mercantilism
Specie Circular
Literacy Tests
White Flight
29. 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 checks and balances.
Separation of Powers
Theocracy
Transcontinental Railway
Free Blacks
30. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Navigation Acts
Assembly Line
Teenagers
Impeachment
31. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Self-Governing Colony
Appeasement
New Left
Transcontinental Railway
32. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Encomienda
Initiative
Bimetallists
Artsian
33. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Imperialism
Injunction
Sit-Down Strike
Self-Governing Colony
34. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Domino Theory
Jim Crow
Proprietary Colony
35. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Planter
Guerrilla War
Loose Constructionist
36. 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.
Mass Production
Suburbia
Colonization
Patroonship
37. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Progressive Movement
Independent Counsel
Impressment
Barbed Wire
38. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Interstate Commerce
Horizontal Integration
Summit Meeting
Headright System
39. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Free Silverites
Speakeasies
Containment
Laissez-Faire
40. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Primogeniture
Trusts
Blacklist
Theocracy
41. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
New Immigration
Protectorate
White Flight
Technological Unemployment
42. 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
Specie Circular
Vertical Integration
Manifest Destiny
Appeasement
43. 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.
Escalation
Royal Colony
Yellow Journalism
Imperialism
44. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ecology
Ethnic Cleansing
Margin Buying
McCarthyism
45. 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 of the Quarters
Free Silverites
Impeachment
Impressment
46. 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.
Proprietary Colony
Two-Party System
Capitalism
Primogeniture
47. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Backlash
Summit Meeting
Guerrilla War
Second Reconstruction
48. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Unions
Self-Governing Colony
Vietnam Revisionism
Guerrilla War
49. 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
Cotton Gin
Loose Constructionist
Capitalism
Division of Powers
50. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Dollar Diplomacy
Talkies
Domino Theory
Vertical Integration
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