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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Teenagers
Cold War
Vertical Integration
Robber Baron
2. 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.
Injunction
Consumer Society
Separation of Powers
Escalation
3. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Isolationism
Dollar Diplomacy
Mestizos
Gender Gap
4. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Trusts
Nonaggression Treaty
Internal Improvements
5. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Temperance Movement
Compassionate Conservatism
Isolationism
6. 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
Separation of Powers
Colonization
Muckrackers
7. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Interstate Commerce
Joint Stock Company
Court Packing Scheme
Colonization
8. 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
Progressive Movement
Indentured Servitude
Culture Wars
Nonaggression Treaty
9. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Sit-Ins
Stagflation
Encomienda
10. 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
Culture Wars
Unions
Cold War
Supply-Side Economics
11. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Loyalty Oaths
Artsian
Blacklist
Unicameral Legislature
12. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Impeachment
Sit-Down Strike
Bootleggers
Spoils System
13. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
New Frontier
Consciousness-Raising Groups
White Flight
14. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Teenagers
Margin Buying
Tariff
Direct Democracy
15. Lincoln's contention that the Union pre-existed the Constitution because it began with the Articles of Association in 1774-since the states had signed on to that document - the Union could not be broken. He discussed this theory in his first inaugura
Black Codes
Proprietary Colony
Anthracite Coal
Theory of Perpetual Union
16. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Socialism
Social Gospel
Loyalty Oaths
New Left
17. 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.
Impeachment
Sharecropping
Culture of the Quarters
McCarthyism
18. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Spoils System
Scalawags
Unlawful Combatants
Primogeniture
19. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Pro-Life
Kyoto Protocol
Barbed Wire
Salutary Neglect
20. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Doves
Short-staple Cotton
White Flight
Veto
21. 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.
Judicial Review
Technological Unemployment
Free Blacks
War on Poverty
22. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.
Barbed Wire
Cotton Gin
Speakeasies
Appeasement
23. 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
Impeachment
Impressment
Blue Laws
24. 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.
Installment Plans
Telegraph
Jim Crow
Stagflation
25. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Pro-Life
Delegated Powers
Referendum
Rock and Roll
26. 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.
Salutary Neglect
Mass Production
Universal Suffrage
Nationalism
27. 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
Artsian
Bailouts
Imperialism
Elastic Clause
28. 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
Free Labor
Sit-Ins
Delegated Powers
Unlawful Combatants
29. 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.
Social Gospel
Primogeniture
Sharecropping
War on Terror
30. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Installment Plans
Bicameral Legislature
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Universal Suffrage
31. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Carpetbaggers
Bailouts
Tenant Farming
New Left
32. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Pro-Choice
Proprietary Colony
Impeachment
33. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Self-Governing Colony
Strict Constructionist
Confederation
Theory of Perpetual Union
34. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Two-Party System
Nonaggression Treaty
Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow
35. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Domino Theory
Interstate Commerce
Hawks
Protective Tariff
36. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Black Codes
Containment
Assembly Line
Juvenile Delinquency
37. 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
Culture Wars
Impeachment
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Social Mobility
38. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Blue Laws
Mercantilism
Theocracy
39. 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.
Isolationism
Subprime Mortgage
Teach-Ins
Supply-Side Economics
40. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Imperialism
Scab
Internal Improvements
41. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Literacy Tests
Virtual Representation
Bailouts
Socialism
42. 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.
Black Power
Delegated Powers
Intrastate Commerce
Reserved Powers Clause
43. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Industrial Unionism
Subprime Mortgage
Specie Circular
Direct Primary
44. 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.
Spoils System
Annexation
Socialism
Boston Tea Party
45. 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
Anthracite Coal
Appeasement
Black Power
Margin Buying
46. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Gender Gap
War on Terror
Technological Unemployment
Social Mobility
47. 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
Teach-Ins
Civil Rights Movement
Interchangeable Parts
Supply-Side Economics
48. 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.
Robber Baron
Loose Constructionist
Poll Tax
Consumer Society
49. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
War on Poverty
Cabinet
Advertising
50. 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
Free Blacks
Bailouts
Second Reconstruction
Popular Sovereignty
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