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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Ecology
Unicameral Legislature
Nationalism
2. 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 Wars
Impressment
Guerrilla War
Yellow Journalism
3. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Unicameral Legislature
Horizontal Integration
Medicare
Headright System
4. 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.
Interstate Commerce
Capitalism
Spoils System
Jim Crow
5. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Imperialism
Militarism
Poll Tax
Boston Tea Party
6. 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
Appeasement
Virtual Representation
Civil Rights Movement
7. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Horizontal Integration
Political Machines
War on Terror
Sit-Ins
8. 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.
Culture Wars
Rock and Roll
Nativism
Transcontinental Railway
9. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Isolationism
Artsian
Impeachment
Alliances
10. 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
Dollar Diplomacy
Free Blacks
Socialism
Nationalism
11. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Mercantilism
Manifest Destiny
Anthracite Coal
Compact Theory
12. 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.
Militarism
Imperialism
Appeasement
Teenagers
13. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Ecology
Pro-Choice
Sharecropping
Blacklist
14. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Second Reconstruction
Scab
Headright System
Telegraph
15. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Escalation
Strict Constructionist
Culture of the Quarters
Medicaid
16. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Tariff
Virtual Representation
Popular Sovereignty
Muckrackers
17. 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.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Short-staple Cotton
Temperance Movement
Industrial Unionism
18. 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
Urban Riots
Social Mobility
Compassionate Conservatism
Muckrackers
19. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Culture of the Quarters
New Left
Medicaid
20. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Homesteaders
Planter
Division of Powers
Advertising
21. 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.
Injunction
Escalation
Imperialism
Tenant Farming
22. 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
Encomienda
Blue Laws
Referendum
Culture Wars
23. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ethnic Cleansing
Talkies
Annexation
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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.
Culture Wars
Bailouts
New Immigration
Transcontinental Railway
25. 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.
Stagflation
Speculation
Universal Suffrage
Cabinet
26. 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
Puppet Regimes
Nativism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Sit-Down Strike
27. 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
Domino Theory
Mass Production
Supply-Side Economics
Free Labor
28. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Encomienda
Pragmatism
Subprime Mortgage
Self-Governing Colony
29. 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
Bimetallists
Blue Laws
Planter
30. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Realist Movement
Compact Theory
McCarthyism
Industrial Unionism
31. 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.
Alliances
Grandfather Clauses
Injunction
Salutary Neglect
32. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Confederation
Short-staple Cotton
Joint Stock Company
Puppet Regimes
33. 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
Protective Tariff
Sit-Down Strike
Mercantilism
Confederation
34. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Salutary Neglect
New Immigration
Democracy
Homesteaders
35. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Nationalism
Rugged Individualism
Mercantilism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
36. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Direct Primary
Compact Theory
Specie Circular
Free Soil Position
37. 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.
Patroonship
Primogeniture
Imperialism
Baby Boom
38. 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
Checks and Balances
Kyoto Protocol
Assembly Line
39. 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.
Teenagers
Yellow-dog Contract
Confederation
Loose Constructionist
40. 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
Capitalism
Containment
Blacklist
Bailouts
41. Historiography is the study of how history is written. Historians in the 1950s-consensus historians-in general argued that America was the world's great democracy that only did good in the world and had no conflicts at home. Largely due to the effort
Conflict Historiography
Puppet Regimes
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Civil Rights Movement
42. 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
Social Gospel
Unlawful Combatants
Doves
Two-Party System
43. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Vietnam Revisionism
Advertising
Nativism
Protective Tariff
44. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Indentured Servitude
Imperialism
Bailouts
45. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Imperialism
Craft Unionism
Spoils System
Nonaggression Treaty
46. 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.
Free Silverites
Separation of Powers
Barbed Wire
Short-staple Cotton
47. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Puppet Regimes
Internal Improvements
Excise Tax
Veto
48. 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
Protectorate
Bootleggers
Elastic Clause
49. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Installment Plans
Protective Tariff
Protective Tariff
50. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
Laissez-Faire
Contraband of War
Realist Movement