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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Teenagers
Indentured Servitude
Short-staple Cotton
Grandfather Clauses
2. 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.
New Immigration
Intrastate Commerce
Juvenile Delinquency
Impressment
3. 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
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Black Power
Speculation
Protective Tariff
4. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Pragmatism
Doves
Separation of Powers
Craft Unionism
5. 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.
Speakeasies
Division of Powers
Appeasement
Direct Democracy
6. 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
Cabinet
Kyoto Protocol
Tariff
New Immigration
7. 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.
Second Reconstruction
Settlement House Movement
Salutary Neglect
Supply-Side Economics
8. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Royal Colony
Anti-Communism
Intrastate Commerce
Ratification
9. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Veto
Barbed Wire
White Flight
Delegated Powers
10. The political position that opposes abortion.
Kyoto Protocol
Barbed Wire
Pro-Life
Consciousness-Raising Groups
11. 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
Socialism
Self-Governing Colony
Sharecropping
12. 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.
Speakeasies
Impeachment
Black Power
Annexation
13. 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
Royal Colony
New Left
Independent Counsel
14. 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.
Political Machines
Blacklist
Bailouts
Impressment
15. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Ratification
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Patroonship
Hawks
16. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Socialism
Veto
Planter
Grandfather Clauses
17. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Joint Stock Company
Domino Theory
Civil Rights Movement
Baby Boom
18. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Free Soil Position
Planter
Laissez-Faire
Blacklist
19. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Division of Powers
Bootleggers
Vertical Integration
Conflict Historiography
20. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Impressment
Internal Improvements
New Immigration
Virtual Representation
21. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Rugged Individualism
Yellow Journalism
Referendum
Horizontal Integration
22. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Containment
Theory of Perpetual Union
Artsian
23. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bicameral Legislature
Jim Crow
Bush Doctrine
Compact Theory
24. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Culture of the Quarters
Second Reconstruction
Artsian
Proprietary Colony
25. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Imperialism
Proprietary Colony
Free Blacks
Medicare
26. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Checks and Balances
Ethnic Cleansing
Pragmatism
27. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Confederation
McCarthyism
Short-staple Cotton
Supply-Side Economics
28. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Medicaid
Realist Movement
Encomienda
Referendum
29. 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
Culture of the Quarters
Cowboys
Culture Wars
Settlement House Movement
30. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Blacklist
Elastic Clause
Yellow Journalism
31. 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.
Blue Laws
Cabinet
Temperance Movement
Strict Constructionist
32. 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.
Bicameral Legislature
Stagflation
Ethnic Cleansing
Sharecropping
33. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Capitalism
Yellow-dog Contract
Strict Constructionist
Mortgage-Backed Securities
34. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Cold War
Escalation
Cowboys
Interstate Commerce
35. 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
Family Values
Rugged Individualism
Social Gospel
Delegated Powers
36. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Summit Meeting
Compassionate Conservatism
Boston Tea Party
Pro-Choice
37. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Blacklist
Socialism
New Frontier
Bailouts
38. 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
Indentured Servitude
Ethnic Cleansing
Installment Plans
Two-Party System
39. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Pro-Choice
Social Mobility
Direct Primary
Weapons of Mass Destruction
40. 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
Assembly Line
Literacy Tests
Free Soil Position
41. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Barbed Wire
Transcontinental Railway
Installment Plans
Homesteaders
42. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Appeasement
Internal Improvements
Cotton Gin
Bailouts
43. 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
Conflict Historiography
Ecology
Scab
Culture Wars
44. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Artsian
Mestizos
Ethnic Cleansing
Industrial Unionism
45. The process of acquiring new territories
Confederation
Court Packing Scheme
Poll Tax
Annexation
46. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
McCarthyism
Bicameral Legislature
Doves
Free Soil Position
47. 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
Division of Powers
Dollar Diplomacy
New Left
Scalawags
48. 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
Blacklist
Sharecropping
Impeachment
War on Terror
49. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Protective Tariff
Excise Tax
Pro-Life
Escalation
50. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
Free Soil Position
Weapons of Mass Destruction
New Left
Unicameral Legislature