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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Guerrilla War
Barbed Wire
White Flight
Spoils System
2. 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
Two-Party System
Barbed Wire
Militarism
Nativism
3. 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.
Teenagers
Vietnam Revisionism
Isolationism
Impressment
4. An element of President Truman's 1947 Federal Employees Loyalty and Security Program - which was designed to weed out communists and other "subversives" from government employment.
Political Machines
Loyalty Oaths
Kyoto Protocol
Nonaggression Treaty
5. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Escalation
Ethnic Cleansing
Suburbia
Speculation
6. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Telegraph
Joint Stock Company
Impressment
7. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Hawks
Intrastate Commerce
Cotton Gin
8. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
McCarthyism
Primogeniture
Blacklist
Mortgage-Backed Securities
9. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Conflict Historiography
Direct Primary
Literacy Tests
10. 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
Direct Primary
Blue Laws
Navigation Acts
Impressment
11. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Militarism
Advertising
Strict Constructionist
Political Machines
12. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Sit-Ins
Backlash
Socialism
Scab
13. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Joint Stock Company
Telegraph
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Second Reconstruction
14. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Trusts
Free Soil Position
Court Packing Scheme
15. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Assembly Line
Gender Gap
Capitalism
Second Reconstruction
16. 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
Hawks
Supply-Side Economics
Division of Powers
Free Labor
17. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Bicameral Legislature
Salutary Neglect
Civil Rights Movement
Containment
18. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Social Gospel
Vietnam Revisionism
Pro-Life
Stagflation
19. 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.
Impeachment
Self-Governing Colony
Telegraph
Proprietary Colony
20. 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.
Free Blacks
Temperance Movement
Escalation
Internal Improvements
21. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Social Mobility
Guerrilla War
Pragmatism
Realist Movement
22. 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.
Imperialism
Juvenile Delinquency
White Flight
Installment Plans
23. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Summit Meeting
Theory of Perpetual Union
Loyalty Oaths
Consciousness-Raising Groups
24. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Abolitionism
Transcontinental Railway
Reserved Powers Clause
25. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Imperialism
Specie Circular
Short-staple Cotton
Mortgage-Backed Securities
26. 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.
Socialism
Jim Crow
Horizontal Integration
Speculation
27. 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
Blacklist
Spoils System
Independent Counsel
Cabinet
28. 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
Manifest Destiny
Unions
Hawks
Appeasement
29. 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.
Spoils System
Intrastate Commerce
Assembly Line
Court Packing Scheme
30. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Excise Tax
Craft Unionism
Pro-Life
Primogeniture
31. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Urban Riots
Poll Tax
Social Mobility
Cowboys
32. 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
New Immigration
White Flight
Militarism
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.
Boston Tea Party
Protectorate
Internal Improvements
Robber Baron
34. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Free Silverites
Backlash
Artsian
35. 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
Judicial Review
Specie Circular
Teach-Ins
Medicare
36. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Muckrackers
Protective Tariff
Division of Powers
Carpetbaggers
37. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Installment Plans
Veto
Suburbia
Telegraph
38. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Ethnic Cleansing
Doves
Anthracite Coal
Intrastate Commerce
39. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Sharecropping
Realist Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Temperance Movement
40. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Domino Theory
McCarthyism
Internal Improvements
41. 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.
Separation of Powers
Alliances
Free Labor
New Immigration
42. 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
Two-Party System
Appeasement
Cabinet
Poll Tax
43. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Domino Theory
Theocracy
Capitalism
44. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Delegated Powers
Mass Production
Temperance Movement
45. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Realist Movement
Referendum
Speakeasies
Tenant Farming
46. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Protectorate
Temperance Movement
Militarism
Anti-Communism
47. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Protectorate
War on Poverty
Mass Production
Protective Tariff
48. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Two-Party System
Containment
Realist Movement
49. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Independent Counsel
Pro-Choice
Margin Buying
Temperance Movement
50. 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.
Culture of the Quarters
Protective Tariff
Spoils System
Guerrilla War