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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Summit Meeting
Division of Powers
Domino Theory
Progressive Movement
2. 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
Laissez-Faire
Assembly Line
Strict Constructionist
Poll Tax
3. 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
Separation of Powers
White Flight
Grandfather Clauses
4. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Two-Party System
Stagflation
Self-Governing Colony
McCarthyism
5. 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
Initiative
Bicameral Legislature
6. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Militarism
Hawks
Unlawful Combatants
7. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Industrial Unionism
Veto
Laissez-Faire
Social Mobility
8. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Telegraph
Pro-Life
Isolationism
Guerrilla War
9. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Socialism
Doves
Sit-Down Strike
Social Gospel
10. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Soil Position
Laissez-Faire
Blacklist
11. 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
Impeachment
Impressment
Conflict Historiography
Margin Buying
12. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Virtual Representation
Artsian
Court Packing Scheme
13. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Subprime Mortgage
Ratification
Cold War
Homesteaders
14. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Culture of the Quarters
Specie Circular
Interchangeable Parts
Containment
15. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Assembly Line
Gender Gap
Veto
Strict Constructionist
16. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Checks and Balances
Scalawags
Ecology
Hawks
17. 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
Mass Production
Culture Wars
Supply-Side Economics
Vertical Integration
18. 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
Speculation
Conflict Historiography
Stagflation
19. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Assembly Line
Joint Stock Company
Unions
Installment Plans
20. 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
Impeachment
McCarthyism
21. 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
Colonization
Teenagers
Nonaggression Treaty
Alliances
22. 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
Free Soil Position
Contraband of War
Guerrilla War
Salutary Neglect
23. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Settlement House Movement
Yellow-dog Contract
Contraband of War
Socialism
24. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Delegated Powers
Nationalism
Interstate Commerce
Interchangeable Parts
25. 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
Intrastate Commerce
Muckrackers
Nonaggression Treaty
Culture of the Quarters
26. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Second Wave of Feminism
Cabinet
Royal Colony
Kyoto Protocol
27. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Mass Production
Anthracite Coal
Vertical Integration
Family Values
28. 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.
Democracy
Mestizos
New Left
New Immigration
29. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Political Machines
Technological Unemployment
Realist Movement
Elastic Clause
30. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Medicaid
War on Poverty
Rock and Roll
Socialism
31. 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.
Bicameral Legislature
Family Values
Appeasement
Talkies
32. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Abolitionism
Imperialism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Democracy
33. 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.
Speculation
Annexation
Sit-Down Strike
Civil Rights Movement
34. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Speakeasies
Ratification
Manifest Destiny
35. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Self-Governing Colony
Telegraph
Baby Boom
Subprime Mortgage
36. 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.
Cold War
Lynching
Virtual Representation
Medicaid
37. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Teenagers
Social Mobility
Juvenile Delinquency
Contraband of War
38. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Rock and Roll
Blacklist
Assembly Line
Lynching
39. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Baby Boom
Blacklist
Nationalism
Contraband of War
40. 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
Temperance Movement
Separation of Powers
Second Wave of Feminism
41. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Margin Buying
Contraband of War
Protectorate
Protective Tariff
42. 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
Judicial Review
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Muckrackers
Culture Wars
43. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Mercantilism
Virtual Representation
Bicameral Legislature
Court Packing Scheme
44. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Loose Constructionist
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Conflict Historiography
Black Power
45. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Cabinet
Bicameral Legislature
Teach-Ins
Hawks
46. 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.
Free Blacks
Sharecropping
Bush Doctrine
Free Labor
47. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Unicameral Legislature
New Frontier
Navigation Acts
Yellow-dog Contract
48. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Pragmatism
Secession
Internal Improvements
Impressment
49. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Ecology
Navigation Acts
Tenant Farming
Anti-Communism
50. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Vertical Integration
Imperialism
New Frontier
Robber Baron
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