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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The study of the environment.
Capitalism
Ecology
Colonization
Speculation
2. 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.
Gender Gap
Injunction
Strict Constructionist
Mercantilism
3. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Artsian
Puppet Regimes
Virtual Representation
Homesteaders
4. 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
Colonization
Popular Sovereignty
Margin Buying
Black Codes
5. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Contraband of War
Political Machines
Short-staple Cotton
6. 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.
Barbed Wire
Loyalty Oaths
Protective Tariff
Escalation
7. 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
Impeachment
Direct Primary
New Immigration
Second Wave of Feminism
8. 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
Vertical Integration
Free Soil Position
War on Poverty
Manifest Destiny
9. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Impeachment
Impeachment
Subprime Mortgage
Universal Suffrage
10. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Bailouts
Bootleggers
Scalawags
Excise Tax
11. 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
Barbed Wire
Salutary Neglect
Anti-Communism
Pragmatism
12. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Craft Unionism
Social Mobility
Theocracy
13. 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
Rugged Individualism
Literacy Tests
Delegated Powers
Popular Sovereignty
14. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Vietnam Revisionism
Direct Democracy
Settlement House Movement
Medicare
15. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Stagflation
Pro-Choice
Excise Tax
Temperance Movement
16. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Sharecropping
Settlement House Movement
Culture of the Quarters
17. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Assembly Line
Jim Crow
Imperialism
18. 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
Checks and Balances
Initiative
Culture Wars
Telegraph
19. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Teenagers
Blue Laws
Scalawags
Popular Sovereignty
20. 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
Technological Unemployment
Muckrackers
Protectorate
21. 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 separation of powers.
Injunction
Ratification
Checks and Balances
Encomienda
22. 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
Navigation Acts
Ethnic Cleansing
Secession
Nativism
23. 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
Blacklist
McCarthyism
Indentured Servitude
Theory of Perpetual Union
24. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Tenant Farming
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
25. 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.
Initiative
Elastic Clause
Socialism
Industrial Unionism
26. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Contraband of War
Yellow-dog Contract
Two-Party System
Protectorate
27. 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
Medicare
Encomienda
Scalawags
Social Mobility
28. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Scab
Blacklist
Poll Tax
Summit Meeting
29. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Initiative
Isolationism
Royal Colony
Installment Plans
30. 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
Virtual Representation
Domino Theory
Capitalism
Ethnic Cleansing
31. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Compassionate Conservatism
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Sharecropping
Socialism
32. 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.
White Flight
Sit-Down Strike
Consumer Society
Vietnam Revisionism
33. 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.
Homesteaders
Great Society
Socialism
Imperialism
34. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Veto
Isolationism
Short-staple Cotton
Installment Plans
35. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Cowboys
Navigation Acts
Scab
Pro-Life
36. 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
Medicare
Imperialism
Guerrilla War
37. 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.
Pro-Choice
Free Blacks
Separation of Powers
Manifest Destiny
38. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Socialism
Court Packing Scheme
Rugged Individualism
Vertical Integration
39. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Political Machines
Direct Primary
Impressment
Black Codes
40. 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.
Yellow Journalism
Navigation Acts
Telegraph
Ratification
41. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Encomienda
Referendum
Laissez-Faire
Interstate Commerce
42. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Laissez-Faire
Division of Powers
Speakeasies
Virtual Representation
43. 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
Division of Powers
Reserved Powers Clause
Manifest Destiny
Dollar Diplomacy
44. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Assembly Line
Mass Production
Interchangeable Parts
45. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it
Division of Powers
Ethnic Cleansing
Independent Counsel
Guerrilla War
46. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Suburbia
Medicaid
McCarthyism
Teach-Ins
47. 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.
Spoils System
Free Labor
Abolitionism
Judicial Review
48. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Self-Governing Colony
Independent Counsel
Mestizos
Craft Unionism
49. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Direct Primary
Mercantilism
Baby Boom
Impressment
50. The process of acquiring new territories
Pro-Choice
Popular Sovereignty
War on Terror
Annexation