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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
White Flight
Vietnam Revisionism
Hawks
Assembly Line
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.
Political Machines
Speculation
Second Wave of Feminism
Compact Theory
3. 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
Salutary Neglect
Bailouts
Free Blacks
Theory of Perpetual Union
4. 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
Planter
Unlawful Combatants
Impeachment
Mercantilism
5. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Joint Stock Company
Telegraph
Juvenile Delinquency
New Immigration
6. 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
Veto
Direct Democracy
Cold War
7. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Suffrage
Black Power
Division of Powers
Free Blacks
8. The political position that opposes abortion.
Pro-Life
Talkies
Separation of Powers
Imperialism
9. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Contraband of War
Summit Meeting
Unicameral Legislature
New Frontier
10. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Social Mobility
Virtual Representation
Tariff
Grandfather Clauses
11. 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
Imperialism
Sit-Down Strike
Indentured Servitude
Veto
12. 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.
Medicare
Mestizos
Industrial Unionism
Jim Crow
13. 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
New Frontier
Grandfather Clauses
McCarthyism
14. 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.
Independent Counsel
Doves
Alliances
Temperance Movement
15. The study of the environment.
Consumer Society
Domino Theory
Specie Circular
Ecology
16. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Gender Gap
Carpetbaggers
Navigation Acts
Independent Counsel
17. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Yellow-dog Contract
New Frontier
Short-staple Cotton
Family Values
18. 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
Injunction
Pragmatism
Colonization
Self-Governing Colony
19. A political system dominated by two parties. Voters reluctance to support third parties reinforces the two-party system. The first two-party system - dating back to the 1970s - included the Federalist and Republican Parties. The current two-party sys
Hawks
Imperialism
Two-Party System
Tenant Farming
20. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Laissez-Faire
Planter
Homesteaders
Trusts
21. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Referendum
Direct Primary
Supply-Side Economics
Horizontal Integration
22. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Industrial Unionism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Nativism
23. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Robber Baron
New Immigration
War on Terror
Socialism
24. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Protective Tariff
White Flight
Doves
Rugged Individualism
25. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Checks and Balances
Indentured Servitude
Isolationism
26. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Domino Theory
Capitalism
Carpetbaggers
27. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Excise Tax
White Flight
28. 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
Muckrackers
Laissez-Faire
Imperialism
29. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Second Wave of Feminism
Interstate Commerce
Black Power
30. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Impeachment
New Left
Blue Laws
31. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Unicameral Legislature
Barbed Wire
Juvenile Delinquency
Short-staple Cotton
32. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Loose Constructionist
Alliances
Boston Tea Party
Speakeasies
33. 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.
New Frontier
Gender Gap
Salutary Neglect
Alliances
34. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Bush Doctrine
Literacy Tests
Cowboys
Direct Democracy
35. The British policy of the 17th century in which the British were lax in the enforcement of laws in the colonies - thereby allowing the colonies to develop without much interference from the British government. After the French and Indian War - this p
Black Power
Salutary Neglect
Free Blacks
Ratification
36. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Lynching
Confederation
Royal Colony
Mass Production
37. 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.
Progressive Movement
Settlement House Movement
Secession
Scalawags
38. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
Advertising
Conflict Historiography
Sharecropping
39. 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
Telegraph
Appeasement
Tariff
Nationalism
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.
Progressive Movement
Grandfather Clauses
Isolationism
Civil Rights Movement
41. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.
Hawks
Grandfather Clauses
Margin Buying
Supply-Side Economics
42. 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
Dollar Diplomacy
Contraband of War
Separation of Powers
Impeachment
43. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Injunction
Cowboys
McCarthyism
Intrastate Commerce
44. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Lynching
Consumer Society
Jim Crow
Family Values
45. 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
Delegated Powers
Nonaggression Treaty
Compassionate Conservatism
Domino Theory
46. 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
Laissez-Faire
Elastic Clause
Assembly Line
New Left
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.
Summit Meeting
Scalawags
Conflict Historiography
Loose Constructionist
48. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Excise Tax
Technological Unemployment
Settlement House Movement
Transcontinental Railway
49. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Unicameral Legislature
Socialism
50. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Stagflation
Veto
Unicameral Legislature
Militarism