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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Initiative
Independent Counsel
Cold War
Confederation
2. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Anthracite Coal
Subprime Mortgage
Rock and Roll
Mortgage-Backed Securities
3. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Protective Tariff
Cabinet
Technological Unemployment
Judicial Review
4. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Subprime Mortgage
Militarism
Primogeniture
5. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Carpetbaggers
White Flight
Pro-Choice
Strict Constructionist
6. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Bimetallists
Vertical Integration
Impressment
7. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Unicameral Legislature
Blacklist
Great Society
Two-Party System
8. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Direct Primary
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Independent Counsel
9. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Pro-Life
Nationalism
Sharecropping
10. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Proprietary Colony
Hawks
Poll Tax
Technological Unemployment
11. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Initiative
Separation of Powers
Tenant Farming
Progressive Movement
12. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Militarism
Impeachment
Boston Tea Party
13. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Socialism
Tenant Farming
Patroonship
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
Puppet Regimes
Cotton Gin
Headright System
15. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Speakeasies
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mercantilism
16. 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.
Independent Counsel
Militarism
Bootleggers
Culture Wars
17. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Rock and Roll
Democracy
Blue Laws
Advertising
18. 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.
Social Mobility
Strict Constructionist
Unicameral Legislature
Excise Tax
19. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Specie Circular
Manifest Destiny
Theocracy
Cabinet
20. 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.
Telegraph
Containment
Spoils System
Free Blacks
21. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Compact Theory
Unicameral Legislature
Bicameral Legislature
Hawks
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
Nativism
Cold War
Virtual Representation
Primogeniture
23. 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
Lynching
Headright System
Rugged Individualism
24. 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
Family Values
Culture of the Quarters
Gender Gap
Checks and Balances
25. 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.
Theocracy
Nationalism
New Frontier
Mestizos
26. 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.
Free Labor
Doves
Suburbia
McCarthyism
27. 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
Assembly Line
Elastic Clause
Spoils System
Margin Buying
28. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Sit-Ins
Blacklist
Impressment
Pragmatism
29. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Delegated Powers
Assembly Line
Black Power
Yellow-dog Contract
30. 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
McCarthyism
Nativism
Salutary Neglect
Nationalism
31. 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
Bootleggers
Intrastate Commerce
Abolitionism
32. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Urban Riots
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Protectorate
Militarism
33. 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
Internal Improvements
Compassionate Conservatism
Impressment
Progressive Movement
34. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Excise Tax
Sit-Ins
Loyalty Oaths
Anti-Communism
35. Historiography is the study of how history is written. Historians in the 1950s-consensus historians-in general argued that America was the world's great democracy that only did good in the world and had no conflicts at home. Largely due to the effort
Free Silverites
Vertical Integration
Conflict Historiography
Veto
36. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Assembly Line
Excise Tax
Scab
37. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Speakeasies
Kyoto Protocol
Family Values
Realist Movement
38. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Royal Colony
Dollar Diplomacy
Protective Tariff
Blacklist
39. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Compact Theory
Vertical Integration
Transcontinental Railway
Unicameral Legislature
40. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Protectorate
Free Soil Position
Baby Boom
Nativism
41. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Imperialism
Capitalism
Juvenile Delinquency
McCarthyism
42. 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.
Checks and Balances
Laissez-Faire
Bimetallists
Nonaggression Treaty
43. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Appeasement
Patroonship
Bootleggers
Tenant Farming
44. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Speculation
Separation of Powers
Containment
Blacklist
45. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Democracy
Militarism
Theory of Perpetual Union
46. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Virtual Representation
Ethnic Cleansing
Blue Laws
Universal Suffrage
47. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Patroonship
Summit Meeting
Secession
Teach-Ins
48. 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.
Gender Gap
Veto
Free Soil Position
Imperialism
49. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Anti-Communism
Teenagers
Yellow-dog Contract
Independent Counsel
50. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
Gender Gap
Nationalism
Appeasement
Vertical Integration