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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Rugged Individualism
Second Reconstruction
Black Power
Popular Sovereignty
2. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Democracy
Stagflation
Imperialism
3. 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
Anti-Communism
Capitalism
Impeachment
4. 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.
Conflict Historiography
Compassionate Conservatism
Civil Rights Movement
Judicial Review
5. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Royal Colony
Separation of Powers
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Theocracy
6. 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
Assembly Line
Reserved Powers Clause
Tenant Farming
Rugged Individualism
7. 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.
Nationalism
Anti-Communism
Jim Crow
Free Labor
8. 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.
Rugged Individualism
Militarism
Speakeasies
Civil Rights Movement
9. 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
Teenagers
Free Silverites
Planter
10. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Nonaggression Treaty
Protectorate
Free Blacks
11. 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
Delegated Powers
Alliances
Boston Tea Party
Family Values
12. 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
Tenant Farming
Teenagers
Indentured Servitude
New Frontier
13. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Mestizos
Horizontal Integration
White Flight
Hawks
14. 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.
Backlash
Vertical Integration
Guerrilla War
Socialism
15. 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
Isolationism
Grandfather Clauses
Blue Laws
16. 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
Backlash
New Immigration
Imperialism
17. 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.
Protective Tariff
Progressive Movement
Guerrilla War
Intrastate Commerce
18. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Carpetbaggers
Popular Sovereignty
Salutary Neglect
19. 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
Secession
Nationalism
Pragmatism
20. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Settlement House Movement
Sharecropping
Compassionate Conservatism
21. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Direct Primary
Royal Colony
Lynching
Industrial Unionism
22. 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.
Pro-Choice
Social Gospel
Domino Theory
Jim Crow
23. 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.
Patroonship
Sit-Ins
Primogeniture
Anti-Communism
24. 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
Isolationism
Manifest Destiny
Alliances
Internal Improvements
25. 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
Two-Party System
New Immigration
Cotton Gin
Virtual Representation
26. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Cabinet
Subprime Mortgage
Impressment
Bicameral Legislature
27. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Great Society
Second Wave of Feminism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
28. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Court Packing Scheme
Capitalism
Rock and Roll
Advertising
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
Veto
Capitalism
Black Codes
Laissez-Faire
30. An increase in number - volume - scope. In reference to the Vietnam War - it refers to the increase in the number of troops and the intensity of involvement by the United States.
Veto
Escalation
Secession
Reserved Powers Clause
31. 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.
Referendum
Gender Gap
Subprime Mortgage
Free Silverites
32. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Separation of Powers
Teenagers
Patroonship
Jim Crow
33. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
New Left
White Flight
Theocracy
Joint Stock Company
34. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Pragmatism
Sit-Ins
Bootleggers
Referendum
35. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Primogeniture
Sharecropping
Dollar Diplomacy
Two-Party System
36. 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
Second Reconstruction
Rugged Individualism
Compassionate Conservatism
Progressive Movement
37. 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
Direct Democracy
Impeachment
Judicial Review
Hawks
38. 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
Sharecropping
War on Poverty
Contraband of War
Black Power
39. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Ethnic Cleansing
Blacklist
Universal Manhood Suffrage
McCarthyism
40. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Great Society
Margin Buying
Blacklist
Impressment
41. 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
Salutary Neglect
Direct Primary
Consumer Society
Blacklist
42. 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
Artsian
Alliances
Direct Democracy
43. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Loyalty Oaths
Contraband of War
Great Society
Baby Boom
44. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Rugged Individualism
Scalawags
Abolitionism
Court Packing Scheme
45. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Anti-Communism
Planter
Anthracite Coal
Ethnic Cleansing
46. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Boston Tea Party
Sharecropping
Family Values
47. 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
Medicare
Domino Theory
Capitalism
48. 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.
Rugged Individualism
Loyalty Oaths
Rock and Roll
Compact Theory
49. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Soil Position
Backlash
Second Wave of Feminism
50. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Ratification
McCarthyism
Loyalty Oaths
Rock and Roll