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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Baby Boom
Initiative
Vertical Integration
Hawks
2. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Free Labor
Referendum
Settlement House Movement
Yellow-dog Contract
3. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Settlement House Movement
Bimetallists
Literacy Tests
Court Packing Scheme
4. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Second Wave of Feminism
Technological Unemployment
Grandfather Clauses
5. Organizations - such as the underground press - Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoots - and women's groups (like the Red Stockings) - that were interested in social change but uninterested in the debates over whether to support Russia a
Injunction
New Left
Civil Rights Movement
Checks and Balances
6. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Anti-Communism
Unions
Separation of Powers
7. 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.
Jim Crow
Sit-Down Strike
Socialism
Poll Tax
8. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Ethnic Cleansing
Imperialism
Nonaggression Treaty
Injunction
9. 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
Internal Improvements
Muckrackers
Annexation
Nationalism
10. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Cotton Gin
Yellow-dog Contract
Free Labor
Bailouts
11. 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.
Scab
Democracy
Cabinet
Direct Democracy
12. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Cowboys
Compassionate Conservatism
Blacklist
13. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Tariff
Craft Unionism
Conflict Historiography
Juvenile Delinquency
14. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.
Installment Plans
Assembly Line
Unions
Appeasement
15. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Ratification
Judicial Review
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Subprime Mortgage
16. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Salutary Neglect
Popular Sovereignty
Hawks
Reserved Powers Clause
17. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Anthracite Coal
Virtual Representation
Proprietary Colony
Cold War
18. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Compact Theory
Laissez-Faire
Bootleggers
Assembly Line
19. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Boston Tea Party
Annexation
Summit Meeting
Progressive Movement
20. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Unlawful Combatants
Mestizos
Direct Democracy
Progressive Movement
21. A prosecutor chosen by a panel of three judges (appointed by the attorney general) to investigate wrongdoing in the executive branch. Established after the Watergate Scandal - the role was designed to prevent conflict of interest within the executive
Independent Counsel
Imperialism
Capitalism
Pro-Choice
22. Agricultural labor system in the South following the era of slavery wherein a sharecropper could farm a piece of land in return for giving the landowner a share - usually half - of the crop.
Sharecropping
Blue Laws
Bush Doctrine
Division of Powers
23. The practice of victorious candidates distributing government jobs to friends and supporters rather than to the most qualified people. Andre Jackson gave his supporters the spoils of victory - whereas John Quincy Adams by and large did not.
Royal Colony
Spoils System
Self-Governing Colony
Nationalism
24. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Guerrilla War
Rugged Individualism
Referendum
Speakeasies
25. 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
Lynching
Medicare
Domino Theory
Baby Boom
26. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Laissez-Faire
Lynching
Isolationism
27. 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.
Baby Boom
Margin Buying
Free Soil Position
Imperialism
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.
Mestizos
White Flight
Contraband of War
Domino Theory
29. 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.
Industrial Unionism
Escalation
Speculation
Weapons of Mass Destruction
30. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Teenagers
Compassionate Conservatism
Yellow Journalism
Isolationism
31. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Elastic Clause
Blue Laws
Internal Improvements
Mestizos
32. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Muckrackers
Assembly Line
Bicameral Legislature
Free Blacks
33. 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.
War on Terror
Boston Tea Party
Vietnam Revisionism
Bicameral Legislature
34. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Appeasement
Urban Riots
Great Society
Veto
35. 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
Mercantilism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Pro-Life
Laissez-Faire
36. 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
Sharecropping
Conflict Historiography
Sit-Down Strike
Juvenile Delinquency
37. 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.
Primogeniture
Boston Tea Party
Militarism
Muckrackers
38. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Industrial Unionism
Sit-Down Strike
Anthracite Coal
Excise Tax
39. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Trusts
Loose Constructionist
Transcontinental Railway
Primogeniture
40. 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
Elastic Clause
Carpetbaggers
Realist Movement
Joint Stock Company
41. The process of acquiring new territories
Court Packing Scheme
Annexation
Trusts
Family Values
42. The political position advocated by Jerry Falwell - Pat Robertson - and other conservative Republicans emphasizing a life of religious observance along with no drugs - no divorce - no abortions - no homosexuality - no working mothers - and no sex bef
Veto
Family Values
Specie Circular
Medicaid
43. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Telegraph
Conflict Historiography
Judicial Review
Confederation
44. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Veto
Sit-Ins
Black Codes
Protectorate
45. 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
Nativism
Containment
Industrial Unionism
Unions
46. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Primogeniture
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Realist Movement
47. 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.
Culture Wars
Vertical Integration
Loyalty Oaths
Literacy Tests
48. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Cowboys
Stagflation
Reserved Powers Clause
Temperance Movement
49. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Imperialism
Cotton Gin
Pro-Life
Theocracy
50. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Transcontinental Railway
Anti-Communism
Interstate Commerce
Talkies
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