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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Black Codes
Cotton Gin
Urban Riots
Internal Improvements
2. 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
Headright System
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Unions
Checks and Balances
3. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
Vertical Integration
Social Gospel
Mercantilism
4. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Blacklist
Direct Primary
Proprietary Colony
Kyoto Protocol
5. 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.
Encomienda
Loyalty Oaths
Anti-Communism
Telegraph
6. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Conflict Historiography
Royal Colony
Guerrilla War
Self-Governing Colony
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
Baby Boom
Virtual Representation
Conflict Historiography
8. 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
Blacklist
Laissez-Faire
Hawks
9. 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.
Contraband of War
Subprime Mortgage
Civil Rights Movement
Sharecropping
10. 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.
Blacklist
Bootleggers
Speculation
Horizontal Integration
11. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Elastic Clause
Protectorate
Ratification
New Immigration
12. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Free Labor
Lynching
Interchangeable Parts
13. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Isolationism
Cold War
Referendum
Compact Theory
14. 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
Domino Theory
Subprime Mortgage
Free Silverites
Initiative
15. 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
Medicaid
Black Power
Abolitionism
Colonization
16. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Assembly Line
Intrastate Commerce
Subprime Mortgage
17. 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
Black Codes
Rock and Roll
Robber Baron
Family Values
18. 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.
Delegated Powers
Assembly Line
Boston Tea Party
Mortgage-Backed Securities
19. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Great Society
Domino Theory
Medicare
Temperance Movement
20. 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.
Specie Circular
Jim Crow
Rock and Roll
Medicaid
21. 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
Excise Tax
Political Machines
Unlawful Combatants
Nonaggression Treaty
22. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Domino Theory
Muckrackers
Culture of the Quarters
Poll Tax
23. 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.
Barbed Wire
Second Reconstruction
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Bailouts
24. 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
Independent Counsel
Assembly Line
Short-staple Cotton
Virtual Representation
25. 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.
Elastic Clause
Protective Tariff
Militarism
Unlawful Combatants
26. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Loyalty Oaths
Indentured Servitude
Confederation
27. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Impeachment
Transcontinental Railway
Bush Doctrine
Sharecropping
28. 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.
Hawks
Referendum
Free Soil Position
Mestizos
29. 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
War on Poverty
White Flight
Primogeniture
Capitalism
30. 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
Mercantilism
Anti-Communism
Assembly Line
Salutary Neglect
31. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Alliances
Jim Crow
Contraband of War
Rugged Individualism
32. 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
Tariff
Literacy Tests
Pragmatism
Interchangeable Parts
33. 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.
Virtual Representation
Jim Crow
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Second Reconstruction
34. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Advertising
Manifest Destiny
Carpetbaggers
Blacklist
35. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Backlash
Royal Colony
Temperance Movement
36. 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
Virtual Representation
Encomienda
Indentured Servitude
White Flight
37. 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.
Free Labor
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Primogeniture
Popular Sovereignty
38. 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.
Ratification
Loyalty Oaths
Juvenile Delinquency
Checks and Balances
39. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Escalation
Headright System
Sit-Ins
Protective Tariff
40. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Nationalism
Craft Unionism
Medicare
Nonaggression Treaty
41. 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
Culture of the Quarters
Division of Powers
Artsian
Settlement House Movement
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.
Supply-Side Economics
Sit-Ins
Court Packing Scheme
Barbed Wire
43. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Suffrage
Secession
Checks and Balances
Imperialism
44. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Supply-Side Economics
Reserved Powers Clause
Imperialism
Impeachment
45. 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
Impressment
Gender Gap
Isolationism
Protectorate
46. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Democracy
Second Wave of Feminism
Compact Theory
Planter
47. 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.
Ratification
Bootleggers
Black Power
Kyoto Protocol
48. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Interchangeable Parts
Culture of the Quarters
Unicameral Legislature
Domino Theory
49. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Short-staple Cotton
Delegated Powers
Free Labor
Puppet Regimes
50. 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.
Homesteaders
Containment
Medicaid
Sharecropping