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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Cotton Gin
Intrastate Commerce
Baby Boom
2. 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.
Mestizos
Imperialism
Bootleggers
Civil Rights Movement
3. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Specie Circular
Self-Governing Colony
Black Power
Technological Unemployment
4. 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.
Unicameral Legislature
Summit Meeting
Free Silverites
Compassionate Conservatism
5. 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.
Advertising
Juvenile Delinquency
Court Packing Scheme
Rock and Roll
6. 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
Joint Stock Company
Telegraph
Impressment
Pro-Choice
7. The political position that opposes abortion.
Ratification
Division of Powers
Theocracy
Pro-Life
8. 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
Headright System
Cowboys
Civil Rights Movement
9. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Blacklist
Rock and Roll
Horizontal Integration
Mestizos
10. 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
Political Machines
Conflict Historiography
Margin Buying
Nativism
11. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Salutary Neglect
Temperance Movement
Teach-Ins
Virtual Representation
12. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Teach-Ins
Lynching
Headright System
Royal Colony
13. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Consumer Society
Poll Tax
Rugged Individualism
Trusts
14. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Impeachment
Social Gospel
Civil Rights Movement
15. The political belief that America's obvious future was to "o'er spread the continent -" in the words of John O'Sullivan in 1846. A corollary was that Americans would bring democracy to the "ignorant and inferior" peoples of the West. The Mexican War
Division of Powers
Delegated Powers
Manifest Destiny
Elastic Clause
16. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Unicameral Legislature
Royal Colony
Telegraph
Jim Crow
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.
Universal Suffrage
Anti-Communism
Secession
Family Values
18. 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
Injunction
Democracy
Blue Laws
Second Wave of Feminism
19. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Temperance Movement
Two-Party System
Bicameral Legislature
20. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Free Blacks
Advertising
Direct Primary
Grandfather Clauses
21. 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
Alliances
Nationalism
Appeasement
Speculation
22. 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.
Blacklist
Compact Theory
Free Silverites
Intrastate Commerce
23. 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
Boston Tea Party
New Left
Scab
Assembly Line
24. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Unlawful Combatants
Craft Unionism
Kyoto Protocol
Grandfather Clauses
25. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.
Unlawful Combatants
Socialism
Transcontinental Railway
Tariff
26. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Kyoto Protocol
Containment
Free Labor
Dollar Diplomacy
27. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Political Machines
Puppet Regimes
Capitalism
Blacklist
28. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Carpetbaggers
Yellow-dog Contract
White Flight
Intrastate Commerce
29. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Rock and Roll
Poll Tax
Headright System
Puppet Regimes
30. 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
Boston Tea Party
Bimetallists
Consumer Society
31. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Contraband of War
Speakeasies
Colonization
Bush Doctrine
32. A method of mass production whereby the products are moved from worker to worker - with each person performing a small - repetitive task on the product and sending it to the next for a different task until the finished item is assembled. In the 18th
Lynching
Assembly Line
Telegraph
Scalawags
33. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Homesteaders
Dollar Diplomacy
Transcontinental Railway
34. 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.
Domino Theory
Literacy Tests
Indentured Servitude
Internal Improvements
35. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Second Reconstruction
Ethnic Cleansing
Mass Production
Medicaid
36. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Culture Wars
Medicare
Imperialism
37. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Headright System
Virtual Representation
Second Wave of Feminism
Speakeasies
38. 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
Bootleggers
Ecology
Bailouts
Isolationism
39. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Blue Laws
Impeachment
Boston Tea Party
Impressment
40. 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
Pragmatism
Boston Tea Party
Elastic Clause
Second Wave of Feminism
41. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Delegated Powers
Yellow Journalism
Free Labor
Tenant Farming
42. 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
Protective Tariff
Talkies
Interchangeable Parts
Rugged Individualism
43. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Protectorate
Cowboys
Referendum
New Immigration
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.
Sharecropping
Contraband of War
Second Reconstruction
Juvenile Delinquency
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
Veto
Telegraph
Bimetallists
Free Soil Position
46. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Social Mobility
White Flight
Socialism
Injunction
47. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Appeasement
Homesteaders
Domino Theory
Patroonship
48. 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
Installment Plans
Bush Doctrine
Nationalism
49. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Specie Circular
Separation of Powers
Nonaggression Treaty
Reserved Powers Clause
50. 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
Social Mobility
Direct Primary
Spoils System
Family Values
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