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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Teach-Ins
Popular Sovereignty
Loose Constructionist
Blacklist
2. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
War on Terror
Free Soil Position
Tenant Farming
Alliances
3. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Jim Crow
Political Machines
Ratification
Hawks
4. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Mestizos
Escalation
Delegated Powers
5. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Interchangeable Parts
Judicial Review
Great Society
Patroonship
6. 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.
Court Packing Scheme
Guerrilla War
Spoils System
Supply-Side Economics
7. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Conflict Historiography
Impeachment
Teach-Ins
Subprime Mortgage
8. 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
Manifest Destiny
Mestizos
Robber Baron
Salutary Neglect
9. 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.
Cabinet
Virtual Representation
Anti-Communism
Homesteaders
10. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Robber Baron
Patroonship
Interstate Commerce
Medicaid
11. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Speakeasies
Margin Buying
Ecology
12. 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.
Internal Improvements
Black Codes
White Flight
Jim Crow
13. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Direct Democracy
Summit Meeting
Delegated Powers
Two-Party System
14. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Talkies
Imperialism
Grandfather Clauses
Consumer Society
15. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Patroonship
Independent Counsel
Horizontal Integration
16. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Escalation
Realist Movement
Free Silverites
Boston Tea Party
17. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Pro-Life
Intrastate Commerce
Lynching
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
Carpetbaggers
Two-Party System
Summit Meeting
Colonization
19. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
Militarism
Virtual Representation
Referendum
20. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Jim Crow
Direct Democracy
Rock and Roll
Veto
21. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Court Packing Scheme
Strict Constructionist
Spoils System
Culture Wars
22. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Lynching
Indentured Servitude
White Flight
Universal Suffrage
23. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Assembly Line
Jim Crow
Bootleggers
24. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Sit-Ins
Independent Counsel
25. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Scalawags
26. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Direct Primary
Unicameral Legislature
Free Blacks
Baby Boom
27. 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.
Blue Laws
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Bailouts
28. 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
Militarism
Free Soil Position
Craft Unionism
Tariff
29. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Manifest Destiny
Poll Tax
Nonaggression Treaty
Dollar Diplomacy
30. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Yellow-dog Contract
Short-staple Cotton
Suburbia
Free Blacks
31. 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 checks and balances.
Checks and Balances
Progressive Movement
Nationalism
Separation of Powers
32. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Supply-Side Economics
Bimetallists
Doves
Second Wave of Feminism
33. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Initiative
Theory of Perpetual Union
McCarthyism
Craft Unionism
34. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
New Left
Capitalism
Medicaid
Self-Governing Colony
35. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
War on Poverty
Installment Plans
Interchangeable Parts
36. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Contraband of War
Pragmatism
Specie Circular
Guerrilla War
37. 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.
Jim Crow
Colonization
Spoils System
Supply-Side Economics
38. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Reserved Powers Clause
Planter
Isolationism
Family Values
39. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Loose Constructionist
Proprietary Colony
Black Codes
40. 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
Referendum
Puppet Regimes
Initiative
41. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Isolationism
Grandfather Clauses
Carpetbaggers
Yellow-dog Contract
42. 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
Pro-Life
Dollar Diplomacy
Free Silverites
43. 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
Progressive Movement
Bailouts
Independent Counsel
Elastic Clause
44. 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.
Interchangeable Parts
Carpetbaggers
Intrastate Commerce
New Immigration
45. 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.
Artsian
Teenagers
Industrial Unionism
Confederation
46. 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.
Sit-Ins
Dollar Diplomacy
Advertising
Primogeniture
47. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Secession
Bootleggers
Talkies
Division of Powers
48. 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
Direct Primary
Robber Baron
Headright System
Cowboys
49. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Teenagers
Sharecropping
Installment Plans
50. 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
Family Values
Dollar Diplomacy
Socialism
Socialism