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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Impeachment
Isolationism
Transcontinental Railway
Margin Buying
2. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Bimetallists
Elastic Clause
Annexation
3. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Excise Tax
Mestizos
Juvenile Delinquency
Assembly Line
4. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
Division of Powers
Sit-Ins
Ethnic Cleansing
5. 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
Isolationism
Veto
Summit Meeting
Judicial Review
6. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Elastic Clause
Checks and Balances
Blacklist
7. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Patroonship
Urban Riots
Social Gospel
Democracy
8. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Elastic Clause
Tariff
Speakeasies
9. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Two-Party System
Summit Meeting
Primogeniture
10. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
War on Poverty
Civil Rights Movement
Socialism
11. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Protectorate
Culture of the Quarters
Gender Gap
12. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Barbed Wire
Initiative
Tenant Farming
Bimetallists
13. 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.
Rock and Roll
Technological Unemployment
Juvenile Delinquency
Free Soil Position
14. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Transcontinental Railway
Short-staple Cotton
Referendum
Second Wave of Feminism
15. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
McCarthyism
Nonaggression Treaty
Secession
Independent Counsel
16. 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
Compact Theory
Family Values
Spoils System
17. 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
Baby Boom
Nationalism
Virtual Representation
Social Gospel
18. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Direct Primary
Planter
Mass Production
19. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Juvenile Delinquency
Free Soil Position
Horizontal Integration
White Flight
20. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Anthracite Coal
Teach-Ins
Culture Wars
Bush Doctrine
21. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Injunction
Cowboys
Robber Baron
Mass Production
22. 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
Isolationism
Mercantilism
Division of Powers
Juvenile Delinquency
23. 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.
Virtual Representation
Stagflation
Speculation
Black Power
24. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Primogeniture
Sit-Down Strike
Lynching
Hawks
25. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Second Reconstruction
Initiative
Court Packing Scheme
Stagflation
26. 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
Guerrilla War
Trusts
Blacklist
27. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Protective Tariff
Veto
Separation of Powers
28. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Interchangeable Parts
Consumer Society
Poll Tax
Cotton Gin
29. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Initiative
Unions
Second Reconstruction
Vertical Integration
30. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Direct Primary
Mass Production
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Speakeasies
31. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Telegraph
Guerrilla War
Scab
32. 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
Laissez-Faire
Protectorate
Great Society
Margin Buying
33. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Blue Laws
Loose Constructionist
Free Labor
Scab
34. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Settlement House Movement
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Stagflation
Installment Plans
35. 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
Patroonship
Impeachment
Ratification
Colonization
36. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Self-Governing Colony
Nonaggression Treaty
Baby Boom
Tenant Farming
37. 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.
Juvenile Delinquency
Bicameral Legislature
Anthracite Coal
Imperialism
38. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Division of Powers
Hawks
McCarthyism
Installment Plans
39. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Contraband of War
McCarthyism
Telegraph
Indentured Servitude
40. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Juvenile Delinquency
Suburbia
Robber Baron
Subprime Mortgage
41. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Popular Sovereignty
Referendum
Nativism
42. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Confederation
Self-Governing Colony
Mestizos
Rugged Individualism
43. 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
Mass Production
Referendum
Free Blacks
Family Values
44. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Bootleggers
Poll Tax
Mercantilism
Second Reconstruction
45. 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
Free Soil Position
Impeachment
Supply-Side Economics
Carpetbaggers
46. 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
Nativism
Unicameral Legislature
Independent Counsel
Assembly Line
47. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte
Indentured Servitude
Protectorate
Conflict Historiography
Advertising
48. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
Escalation
Primogeniture
Tariff
Joint Stock Company
49. 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.
Cold War
Socialism
Cabinet
Realist Movement
50. 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
Blacklist
Free Blacks
Juvenile Delinquency
Domino Theory