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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Margin Buying
Sit-Ins
Royal Colony
Joint Stock Company
2. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Black Power
Confederation
Protective Tariff
3. 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.
Blue Laws
Kyoto Protocol
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Alliances
4. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Doves
Culture Wars
Muckrackers
Mercantilism
5. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Doves
Blacklist
Militarism
Mestizos
6. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Great Society
Compact Theory
Backlash
Weapons of Mass Destruction
7. 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
Direct Primary
Second Reconstruction
Primogeniture
8. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Militarism
Realist Movement
Speculation
Compassionate Conservatism
9. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Spoils System
Ethnic Cleansing
Containment
10. 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
Social Mobility
Proprietary Colony
Domino Theory
Great Society
11. 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.
Gender Gap
Laissez-Faire
Vietnam Revisionism
Puppet Regimes
12. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Culture Wars
Socialism
Vertical Integration
Bicameral Legislature
13. 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.
Pragmatism
Speculation
Literacy Tests
Protective Tariff
14. 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
Abolitionism
Mass Production
Socialism
15. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Mass Production
Initiative
Realist Movement
16. 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
Carpetbaggers
Yellow-dog Contract
Socialism
Capitalism
17. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Cowboys
Craft Unionism
Trusts
18. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Specie Circular
Direct Democracy
Mercantilism
Ethnic Cleansing
19. 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
Salutary Neglect
Independent Counsel
Technological Unemployment
Yellow-dog Contract
20. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Independent Counsel
Interstate Commerce
Nationalism
21. 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
Industrial Unionism
Nativism
Black Codes
Poll Tax
22. The process of acquiring new territories
Consumer Society
Annexation
Teenagers
New Immigration
23. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.
Telegraph
Homesteaders
Kyoto Protocol
Separation of Powers
24. 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.
Protectorate
Domino Theory
Self-Governing Colony
Free Silverites
25. 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
Lynching
Backlash
Yellow Journalism
26. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Bailouts
Horizontal Integration
Cabinet
Impeachment
27. 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.
Free Blacks
White Flight
Cotton Gin
Bootleggers
28. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Spoils System
Yellow Journalism
Militarism
29. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Free Silverites
Separation of Powers
McCarthyism
30. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Vertical Integration
Delegated Powers
Planter
Unions
31. 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.
Pragmatism
Progressive Movement
Sit-Down Strike
Black Power
32. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Jim Crow
Backlash
Settlement House Movement
Cowboys
33. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Salutary Neglect
Yellow-dog Contract
Navigation Acts
Speakeasies
34. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Speakeasies
Capitalism
New Frontier
Social Gospel
35. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Impressment
Assembly Line
Yellow-dog Contract
Hawks
36. 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
Spoils System
Capitalism
Manifest Destiny
Scab
37. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Unlawful Combatants
Colonization
Checks and Balances
38. 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
Imperialism
Nationalism
Manifest Destiny
Indentured Servitude
39. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Protectorate
Delegated Powers
Tariff
40. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Cowboys
New Frontier
Bimetallists
Protectorate
41. 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.
Assembly Line
Court Packing Scheme
Protective Tariff
Margin Buying
42. 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.
Craft Unionism
Free Labor
Imperialism
Supply-Side Economics
43. 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
Pragmatism
Reserved Powers Clause
Supply-Side Economics
44. 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
Virtual Representation
Scab
Self-Governing Colony
45. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Suburbia
Settlement House Movement
Escalation
46. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Black Power
Escalation
Nativism
Craft Unionism
47. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Bailouts
Doves
Colonization
Lynching
48. 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
Assembly Line
Black Power
Colonization
49. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Proprietary Colony
Summit Meeting
Hawks
Excise Tax
50. 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
Realist Movement
Guerrilla War
Interstate Commerce
Culture Wars