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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Hawks
Poll Tax
Vietnam Revisionism
Margin Buying
2. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Universal Suffrage
Puppet Regimes
Free Labor
Mass Production
3. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
Realist Movement
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Backlash
Advertising
4. The idea that the Constitution was created by the states and so the states could dissolve it. This was advocated first by Madison and Jefferson in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and later by Robert Y Hayne in his debate with Daniel Web
Escalation
Compact Theory
Civil Rights Movement
Sharecropping
5. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Teach-Ins
Anti-Communism
Nonaggression Treaty
Stagflation
6. 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.
Free Silverites
Poll Tax
Domino Theory
Checks and Balances
7. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Joint Stock Company
Literacy Tests
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Initiative
8. 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.
Headright System
Mass Production
Blue Laws
Muckrackers
9. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Loose Constructionist
Bootleggers
New Left
Patroonship
10. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
White Flight
Impeachment
Interstate Commerce
Royal Colony
11. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
New Left
Compact Theory
Nationalism
12. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Laissez-Faire
Backlash
Horizontal Integration
13. 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.
Alliances
Progressive Movement
Baby Boom
Contraband of War
14. 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
Salutary Neglect
Bootleggers
Interstate Commerce
Specie Circular
15. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
White Flight
Baby Boom
Technological Unemployment
Black Codes
16. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Democracy
Tariff
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Temperance Movement
17. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Black Power
War on Poverty
Stagflation
Temperance Movement
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
Technological Unemployment
Second Wave of Feminism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Planter
19. 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.
Democracy
Installment Plans
White Flight
Loose Constructionist
20. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Culture Wars
Interstate Commerce
White Flight
Muckrackers
21. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Free Labor
Horizontal Integration
Proprietary Colony
Settlement House Movement
22. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Bimetallists
Nonaggression Treaty
Advertising
Talkies
23. 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
Margin Buying
Universal Suffrage
Advertising
Domino Theory
24. 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
Domino Theory
Capitalism
Headright System
Democracy
25. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Anti-Communism
Navigation Acts
Craft Unionism
Robber Baron
26. 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.
Culture Wars
Theocracy
Transcontinental Railway
Literacy Tests
27. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Patroonship
Unicameral Legislature
Realist Movement
Social Mobility
28. 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
Militarism
Protective Tariff
Second Reconstruction
29. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Abolitionism
Encomienda
Summit Meeting
Direct Democracy
30. 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
Tenant Farming
Cabinet
Impressment
Checks and Balances
31. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Specie Circular
Social Mobility
Militarism
Interchangeable Parts
32. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Cowboys
Rugged Individualism
Bicameral Legislature
33. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Isolationism
Cold War
Culture of the Quarters
Great Society
34. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Colonization
Rugged Individualism
Abolitionism
35. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Confederation
Social Gospel
Loyalty Oaths
36. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Literacy Tests
Speculation
Rock and Roll
Consumer Society
37. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Cowboys
Sharecropping
Baby Boom
Free Blacks
38. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Specie Circular
Carpetbaggers
Joint Stock Company
39. 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.
Temperance Movement
Trusts
Theory of Perpetual Union
Protectorate
40. 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.
Court Packing Scheme
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Imperialism
41. 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
Trusts
Abolitionism
Assembly Line
Teenagers
42. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Backlash
White Flight
Cold War
Abolitionism
43. 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.
Great Society
Pragmatism
Literacy Tests
Loyalty Oaths
44. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Bicameral Legislature
Joint Stock Company
Ethnic Cleansing
Jim Crow
45. 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
Telegraph
Headright System
Cowboys
Robber Baron
46. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Social Mobility
New Frontier
Trusts
Isolationism
47. 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.
Speakeasies
Appeasement
Industrial Unionism
Boston Tea Party
48. 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.
Referendum
Urban Riots
Bailouts
Suburbia
49. 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.
Imperialism
Free Blacks
Socialism
Unlawful Combatants
50. 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
Indentured Servitude
Escalation
Margin Buying
Pro-Choice