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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ethnic Cleansing
Protectorate
Royal Colony
Initiative
2. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Hawks
Theocracy
Temperance Movement
Suburbia
3. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Pro-Choice
Theocracy
Injunction
Consumer Society
4. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Nativism
Containment
Black Power
Theocracy
5. 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
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Culture of the Quarters
Bush Doctrine
Poll Tax
6. 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
Interstate Commerce
Subprime Mortgage
Stagflation
Nationalism
7. 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
Scalawags
Theory of Perpetual Union
Excise Tax
Anthracite Coal
8. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Grandfather Clauses
Interstate Commerce
Second Reconstruction
9. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Unlawful Combatants
Initiative
Guerrilla War
Pro-Choice
10. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Guerrilla War
Anti-Communism
Anthracite Coal
11. 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
Impressment
Protectorate
White Flight
Universal Manhood Suffrage
12. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Suburbia
Planter
Ethnic Cleansing
Robber Baron
13. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
War on Terror
Socialism
Scab
Virtual Representation
14. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Popular Sovereignty
Direct Primary
Hawks
Barbed Wire
15. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Tenant Farming
Yellow Journalism
Black Codes
Teach-Ins
16. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Teenagers
Nationalism
Installment Plans
Medicare
17. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Referendum
Speculation
Horizontal Integration
Democracy
18. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Secession
Ethnic Cleansing
Yellow Journalism
Assembly Line
19. 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.
Ecology
Unicameral Legislature
Navigation Acts
Protectorate
20. 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.
Trusts
Sit-Down Strike
New Left
Isolationism
21. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Compassionate Conservatism
Delegated Powers
Horizontal Integration
Abolitionism
22. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Realist Movement
White Flight
Capitalism
Free Silverites
23. 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.
Blue Laws
Court Packing Scheme
Socialism
Teenagers
24. 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.
Political Machines
Rugged Individualism
Craft Unionism
War on Terror
25. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Indentured Servitude
Poll Tax
Patroonship
Teach-Ins
26. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Temperance Movement
Teach-Ins
Socialism
Sit-Ins
27. 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
Bailouts
Short-staple Cotton
Vietnam Revisionism
Colonization
28. 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.
Cabinet
Craft Unionism
Alliances
McCarthyism
29. 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.
Cabinet
Craft Unionism
Laissez-Faire
Alliances
30. 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.
Telegraph
Hawks
Imperialism
Conflict Historiography
31. 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
Division of Powers
Injunction
Independent Counsel
Vertical Integration
32. 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.
Industrial Unionism
Free Silverites
White Flight
Headright System
33. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Loose Constructionist
War on Terror
Summit Meeting
Guerrilla War
34. 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.
Speculation
Alliances
Bimetallists
Social Gospel
35. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Carpetbaggers
Margin Buying
New Immigration
36. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Interstate Commerce
Subprime Mortgage
Compact Theory
Second Reconstruction
37. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
War on Poverty
Doves
Elastic Clause
Craft Unionism
38. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Installment Plans
Vertical Integration
Gender Gap
Virtual Representation
39. The study of the environment.
Black Power
Urban Riots
Advertising
Ecology
40. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Intrastate Commerce
Hawks
Industrial Unionism
McCarthyism
41. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Cabinet
Strict Constructionist
Popular Sovereignty
Direct Democracy
42. 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.
Unicameral Legislature
Proprietary Colony
Kyoto Protocol
Internal Improvements
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.
Bootleggers
Intrastate Commerce
Colonization
Militarism
44. 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
Hawks
Guerrilla War
Bicameral Legislature
45. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Domino Theory
Imperialism
Laissez-Faire
Pro-Choice
46. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Reserved Powers Clause
Nonaggression Treaty
Yellow-dog Contract
Delegated Powers
47. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Dollar Diplomacy
Pro-Choice
Unlawful Combatants
Protective Tariff
48. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Strict Constructionist
Black Power
Popular Sovereignty
Anthracite Coal
49. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Separation of Powers
War on Terror
Nonaggression Treaty
50. 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.
Cabinet
Secession
Settlement House Movement
Sharecropping
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