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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Installment Plans
Bimetallists
Bush Doctrine
2. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Democracy
Medicare
Direct Democracy
Domino Theory
3. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Ecology
Grandfather Clauses
Culture of the Quarters
4. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
War on Poverty
Rugged Individualism
Stagflation
5. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Suburbia
War on Poverty
Industrial Unionism
Horizontal Integration
6. 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
Urban Riots
Salutary Neglect
Elastic Clause
7. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Judicial Review
Great Society
Confederation
8. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Rock and Roll
Universal Suffrage
Manifest Destiny
Speculation
9. 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
Guerrilla War
Loose Constructionist
Family Values
New Frontier
10. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Pragmatism
Horizontal Integration
Headright System
Alliances
11. 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
Militarism
New Immigration
Homesteaders
12. 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.
Direct Democracy
Direct Primary
Militarism
Intrastate Commerce
13. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Assembly Line
Nationalism
Capitalism
14. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Imperialism
Culture Wars
Homesteaders
Theory of Perpetual Union
15. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Referendum
Secession
Baby Boom
Unions
16. 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.
Gender Gap
Technological Unemployment
Political Machines
Tariff
17. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Delegated Powers
Advertising
Cotton Gin
Secession
18. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Settlement House Movement
Direct Democracy
Scab
Bimetallists
19. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Pragmatism
Consumer Society
Isolationism
Cold War
20. 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
Pro-Choice
Cabinet
Joint Stock Company
Specie Circular
21. 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
Annexation
Reserved Powers Clause
Settlement House Movement
22. 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
Second Reconstruction
Anti-Communism
Nationalism
23. An element of President Truman's 1947 Federal Employees Loyalty and Security Program - which was designed to weed out communists and other "subversives" from government employment.
Compassionate Conservatism
Speakeasies
Nonaggression Treaty
Loyalty Oaths
24. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Vertical Integration
Guerrilla War
Scab
Initiative
25. 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
Scab
Muckrackers
White Flight
Reserved Powers Clause
26. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Great Society
Nationalism
27. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Unicameral Legislature
Abolitionism
Compassionate Conservatism
Proprietary Colony
28. 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.
Protectorate
Progressive Movement
Court Packing Scheme
War on Poverty
29. 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
Culture Wars
Urban Riots
Impressment
New Frontier
30. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Appeasement
Backlash
Bicameral Legislature
Compassionate Conservatism
31. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Gender Gap
Judicial Review
Jim Crow
Black Power
32. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Nativism
Protective Tariff
Direct Primary
Black Codes
33. 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.
Black Power
Salutary Neglect
War on Terror
Isolationism
34. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Scab
Pro-Choice
Advertising
35. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Teenagers
Cold War
Self-Governing Colony
Boston Tea Party
36. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Manifest Destiny
Protectorate
Royal Colony
37. 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.
Free Blacks
Socialism
Cabinet
Proprietary Colony
38. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Summit Meeting
Tenant Farming
Free Blacks
Doves
39. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Capitalism
Boston Tea Party
Temperance Movement
Free Silverites
40. 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
Culture Wars
Social Mobility
Self-Governing Colony
Conflict Historiography
41. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Capitalism
Baby Boom
Ethnic Cleansing
42. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Guerrilla War
Hawks
Rock and Roll
Stagflation
43. 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
Conflict Historiography
Headright System
Culture Wars
Consciousness-Raising Groups
44. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Consumer Society
Political Machines
45. 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
Proprietary Colony
Culture of the Quarters
Self-Governing Colony
Joint Stock Company
46. 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
Interstate Commerce
Culture Wars
Encomienda
Pro-Choice
47. 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.
McCarthyism
Loose Constructionist
Gender Gap
Baby Boom
48. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Patroonship
Jim Crow
Carpetbaggers
Blacklist
49. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Confederation
Sit-Down Strike
Nonaggression Treaty
Ecology
50. 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
Impeachment
Universal Suffrage
Cold War
Navigation Acts