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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Short-staple Cotton
Two-Party System
Settlement House Movement
Nationalism
2. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Jim Crow
Navigation Acts
Royal Colony
Imperialism
3. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.
Progressive Movement
Summit Meeting
Direct Democracy
Suburbia
4. 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.
Second Reconstruction
Loose Constructionist
Teach-Ins
New Immigration
5. 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.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Tenant Farming
Social Gospel
Court Packing Scheme
6. 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.
Internal Improvements
Lynching
Boston Tea Party
Popular Sovereignty
7. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Domino Theory
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Artsian
8. 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
Cabinet
Guerrilla War
Teach-Ins
Transcontinental Railway
9. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Unicameral Legislature
Industrial Unionism
Medicare
Craft Unionism
10. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Transcontinental Railway
Suburbia
Unicameral Legislature
Great Society
11. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Division of Powers
Conflict Historiography
Specie Circular
Isolationism
12. The power of the president to reject legislation. The US Congress can override a veto by the US president if it can pass the legislation by a two-thirds majority.
Veto
Second Wave of Feminism
Unions
Sit-Ins
13. 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
Strict Constructionist
Domino Theory
Urban Riots
Supply-Side Economics
14. 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.
Direct Primary
Settlement House Movement
Delegated Powers
Political Machines
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
Socialism
Elastic Clause
Planter
Lynching
16. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
War on Poverty
Cowboys
Free Labor
Rock and Roll
17. 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
Confederation
Specie Circular
Spoils System
Theory of Perpetual Union
18. 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
Two-Party System
Joint Stock Company
Salutary Neglect
Free Blacks
19. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Mestizos
Yellow Journalism
Appeasement
20. 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.
Headright System
Blacklist
Capitalism
War on Terror
21. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Juvenile Delinquency
New Frontier
Democracy
22. 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.
Doves
Carpetbaggers
Unicameral Legislature
Confederation
23. 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.
Poll Tax
Pragmatism
Sharecropping
Separation of Powers
24. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Industrial Unionism
Horizontal Integration
Bimetallists
Confederation
25. 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.
Loyalty Oaths
Isolationism
Primogeniture
Appeasement
26. 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.
Salutary Neglect
Interchangeable Parts
Grandfather Clauses
Free Silverites
27. 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.
Scab
New Frontier
Referendum
Teach-Ins
28. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
White Flight
Bootleggers
Talkies
Secession
29. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations with an aim toward increasing its power and controlling those nations. This was a cause of WWI.
Imperialism
Civil Rights Movement
Tenant Farming
Artsian
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
Supply-Side Economics
Artsian
Impressment
Political Machines
31. 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.
Nativism
Spoils System
Temperance Movement
Strict Constructionist
32. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Vertical Integration
Alliances
Socialism
33. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
McCarthyism
Excise Tax
Free Silverites
Anti-Communism
34. 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
Family Values
Muckrackers
Cold War
Assembly Line
35. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Capitalism
Protectorate
Bush Doctrine
36. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Specie Circular
Teach-Ins
Poll Tax
Lynching
37. 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
Protective Tariff
Ecology
Unions
Interchangeable Parts
38. 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.
Blacklist
New Immigration
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Militarism
39. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Medicaid
Political Machines
Yellow Journalism
Nonaggression Treaty
40. 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
Backlash
Stagflation
Blacklist
Installment Plans
41. 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
Industrial Unionism
Teenagers
Nationalism
Supply-Side Economics
42. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Hawks
Speculation
Scalawags
Virtual Representation
43. 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
Free Labor
Interchangeable Parts
Social Mobility
Cowboys
44. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
Yellow-dog Contract
Spoils System
Telegraph
45. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Impeachment
Secession
Telegraph
Scab
46. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Annexation
Loose Constructionist
Bimetallists
47. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Subprime Mortgage
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Loyalty Oaths
Barbed Wire
48. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Mercantilism
Patroonship
Rugged Individualism
49. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Impeachment
Unlawful Combatants
Sit-Down Strike
Doves
50. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Laissez-Faire
Imperialism
Black Power
Lynching