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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Speakeasies
Nativism
Bush Doctrine
Containment
2. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Medicare
Medicaid
Political Machines
Puppet Regimes
3. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Cabinet
Proprietary Colony
Universal Manhood Suffrage
4. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Universal Suffrage
Spoils System
Barbed Wire
Isolationism
5. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Ratification
Impeachment
Assembly Line
6. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.
Anti-Communism
Confederation
Nonaggression Treaty
Progressive Movement
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.
War on Poverty
Installment Plans
War on Terror
Strict Constructionist
8. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Injunction
Secession
Scalawags
Family Values
9. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Free Silverites
Cotton Gin
Progressive Movement
Unions
10. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Strict Constructionist
Speculation
Consciousness-Raising Groups
11. 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.
Mercantilism
Subprime Mortgage
Settlement House Movement
Impeachment
12. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Medicaid
Telegraph
Bicameral Legislature
Consciousness-Raising Groups
13. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Teach-Ins
Secession
Boston Tea Party
14. A company that developed in the early 1600s in England wherein a group of investors pooled their money to finance exploration of the new World. The investor would receive a portion of the profits resulting from the exploration of the New World based
Puppet Regimes
Doves
Joint Stock Company
Vietnam Revisionism
15. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Blacklist
Bimetallists
Poll Tax
White Flight
16. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Socialism
Teenagers
Veto
Margin Buying
17. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
New Immigration
Protective Tariff
Nationalism
18. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Culture of the Quarters
Navigation Acts
Appeasement
Manifest Destiny
19. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Bimetallists
Doves
Grandfather Clauses
20. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Doves
Colonization
War on Poverty
Speakeasies
21. 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.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Jim Crow
Social Mobility
Great Society
22. 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
Realist Movement
Jim Crow
Blacklist
23. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Independent Counsel
Headright System
Stagflation
Planter
24. 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
Imperialism
Free Soil Position
Consumer Society
Militarism
25. 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.
New Immigration
Free Soil Position
Bush Doctrine
Impeachment
26. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Bush Doctrine
Industrial Unionism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Compassionate Conservatism
27. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Sit-Down Strike
Royal Colony
Socialism
Yellow Journalism
28. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Specie Circular
Primogeniture
Industrial Unionism
Juvenile Delinquency
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 separation of powers.
Checks and Balances
Speakeasies
Free Silverites
Democracy
30. Reading tests required in some Southern states before people were allowed to register to vote. They were mainly intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
Impressment
Militarism
Domino Theory
Literacy Tests
31. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Lynching
Speculation
Popular Sovereignty
Horizontal Integration
32. 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.
Yellow Journalism
Margin Buying
Universal Suffrage
Cabinet
33. 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
Court Packing Scheme
Barbed Wire
Nonaggression Treaty
34. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Conflict Historiography
Impeachment
Planter
Boston Tea Party
35. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Baby Boom
Vietnam Revisionism
Yellow-dog Contract
Puppet Regimes
36. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Second Wave of Feminism
Mass Production
Veto
37. 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
Strict Constructionist
Protective Tariff
Reserved Powers Clause
Black Power
38. Lincoln's contention that the Union pre-existed the Constitution because it began with the Articles of Association in 1774-since the states had signed on to that document - the Union could not be broken. He discussed this theory in his first inaugura
Theory of Perpetual Union
Ethnic Cleansing
Temperance Movement
Loyalty Oaths
39. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Popular Sovereignty
Loose Constructionist
Laissez-Faire
Patroonship
40. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Installment Plans
Industrial Unionism
Proprietary Colony
Civil Rights Movement
41. 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
Margin Buying
Two-Party System
Bush Doctrine
Temperance Movement
42. 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
Poll Tax
Trusts
Internal Improvements
Yellow-dog Contract
43. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Socialism
Universal Suffrage
Bailouts
Consumer Society
44. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Pro-Choice
White Flight
Royal Colony
45. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Scab
Pragmatism
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Speakeasies
46. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Telegraph
Excise Tax
Delegated Powers
Mestizos
47. 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.
Homesteaders
Intrastate Commerce
Compassionate Conservatism
Impeachment
48. The process of acquiring new territories
Suburbia
Bimetallists
Annexation
Jim Crow
49. 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.
Puppet Regimes
Isolationism
War on Terror
Lynching
50. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Impressment
Reserved Powers Clause
Domino Theory
Homesteaders