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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Escalation
Unions
Nonaggression Treaty
Domino Theory
2. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Excise Tax
Self-Governing Colony
Containment
Bicameral Legislature
3. 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
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mercantilism
Teach-Ins
4. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Self-Governing Colony
Alliances
Direct Democracy
5. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Settlement House Movement
New Frontier
Salutary Neglect
Injunction
6. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Salutary Neglect
Hawks
Artsian
Cold War
7. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Urban Riots
Internal Improvements
Grandfather Clauses
8. 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.
Great Society
Jim Crow
Containment
Indentured Servitude
9. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Navigation Acts
Cowboys
Isolationism
Margin Buying
10. 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
Baby Boom
Two-Party System
Scalawags
11. 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
Guerrilla War
Court Packing Scheme
Black Codes
Culture Wars
12. 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
War on Terror
Supply-Side Economics
Impressment
Weapons of Mass Destruction
13. 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
Pro-Choice
Jim Crow
Spoils System
Indentured Servitude
14. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Nonaggression Treaty
New Left
Judicial Review
Carpetbaggers
15. 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
Medicare
Yellow-dog Contract
Referendum
Elastic Clause
16. Blacks who had been freed from slavery or were not born slaves. They lived in the cities and countryside in both the North and the South. In 1860 - there were about 500 -000 free blacks evenly distributed between the North and the South.
Annexation
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Free Blacks
Vertical Integration
17. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Salutary Neglect
Assembly Line
Mortgage-Backed Securities
18. 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.
Patroonship
Indentured Servitude
Confederation
Compact Theory
19. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Vietnam Revisionism
Transcontinental Railway
Protectorate
Teach-Ins
20. 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.
New Left
Primogeniture
Free Silverites
Ecology
21. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Independent Counsel
Socialism
Cotton Gin
Bailouts
22. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Guerrilla War
Cotton Gin
War on Poverty
Protective Tariff
23. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Loyalty Oaths
Bicameral Legislature
Navigation Acts
Juvenile Delinquency
24. 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.
Democracy
Spoils System
Juvenile Delinquency
Civil Rights Movement
25. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Self-Governing Colony
Laissez-Faire
Bimetallists
Court Packing Scheme
26. 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
Checks and Balances
Contraband of War
Headright System
Court Packing Scheme
27. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Culture Wars
Specie Circular
Bootleggers
Mass Production
28. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Joint Stock Company
Second Reconstruction
Judicial Review
29. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Free Silverites
Specie Circular
Summit Meeting
Separation of Powers
30. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Political Machines
Containment
Carpetbaggers
Teach-Ins
31. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Poll Tax
Escalation
Yellow Journalism
32. 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.
Teenagers
Socialism
Judicial Review
Political Machines
33. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Literacy Tests
Horizontal Integration
Impressment
Containment
34. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Ethnic Cleansing
Contraband of War
Social Gospel
White Flight
35. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Gender Gap
Dollar Diplomacy
Barbed Wire
Pro-Choice
36. 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
Capitalism
Carpetbaggers
Family Values
37. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Pro-Life
Pro-Choice
Bush Doctrine
Settlement House Movement
38. 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.
Speculation
Assembly Line
Blacklist
Loose Constructionist
39. 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
Carpetbaggers
Second Wave of Feminism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Robber Baron
40. 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
Temperance Movement
Pragmatism
Industrial Unionism
Two-Party System
41. 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
Consumer Society
Injunction
Bailouts
42. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Nationalism
Blacklist
Joint Stock Company
43. 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
Hawks
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Delegated Powers
Temperance Movement
44. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Teach-Ins
Jim Crow
White Flight
Black Codes
45. 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
Protectorate
Civil Rights Movement
New Left
Consumer Society
46. 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.
Temperance Movement
Free Silverites
Poll Tax
Trusts
47. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Yellow Journalism
Domino Theory
Scab
48. 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.
Blacklist
Homesteaders
Talkies
Second Reconstruction
49. 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
Impeachment
Laissez-Faire
Division of Powers
Mestizos
50. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
White Flight
Rugged Individualism
Interstate Commerce
Craft Unionism
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