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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Protective Tariff
Compassionate Conservatism
Impressment
2. 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
Assembly Line
Vietnam Revisionism
Veto
3. The idea that the Constitution was created by the states and so the states could dissolve it. This was advocated first by Madison and Jefferson in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and later by Robert Y Hayne in his debate with Daniel Web
Free Labor
Compact Theory
Sit-Down Strike
Judicial Review
4. 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
Pro-Choice
Manifest Destiny
Jim Crow
Intrastate Commerce
5. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
War on Terror
Excise Tax
Stagflation
Interchangeable Parts
6. 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 checks and balances.
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Domino Theory
Political Machines
7. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ethnic Cleansing
Carpetbaggers
Indentured Servitude
Interstate Commerce
8. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Universal Suffrage
Socialism
War on Terror
9. 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
Direct Democracy
Stagflation
Tenant Farming
10. 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.
Black Power
Mestizos
Domino Theory
Referendum
11. A company that developed in the early 1600s in England wherein a group of investors pooled their money to finance exploration of the new World. The investor would receive a portion of the profits resulting from the exploration of the New World based
Socialism
Dollar Diplomacy
Teenagers
Joint Stock Company
12. 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.
Intrastate Commerce
Contraband of War
Proprietary Colony
Unicameral Legislature
13. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Blacklist
Impeachment
Laissez-Faire
Black Codes
14. 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
Stagflation
Civil Rights Movement
Teach-Ins
15. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Rock and Roll
Bailouts
White Flight
Free Silverites
16. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Imperialism
Separation of Powers
Ecology
17. 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
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Vietnam Revisionism
Capitalism
18. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Blue Laws
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Gender Gap
Black Codes
19. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Black Power
Royal Colony
Laissez-Faire
Anthracite Coal
20. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Realist Movement
Interstate Commerce
Domino Theory
Poll Tax
21. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Interchangeable Parts
Checks and Balances
Bicameral Legislature
Stagflation
22. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Doves
Sit-Ins
Specie Circular
Craft Unionism
23. 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
New Left
Salutary Neglect
Bailouts
Kyoto Protocol
24. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Democracy
Transcontinental Railway
Cowboys
Sit-Ins
25. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Grandfather Clauses
Compassionate Conservatism
Advertising
Second Wave of Feminism
26. 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.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Jim Crow
Robber Baron
New Left
27. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Poll Tax
Free Silverites
Nativism
Bimetallists
28. 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.
Yellow-dog Contract
White Flight
Installment Plans
Appeasement
29. 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
Mestizos
Free Soil Position
Horizontal Integration
Imperialism
30. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Social Mobility
Loyalty Oaths
31. 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.
Unicameral Legislature
Veto
Initiative
Bimetallists
32. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Popular Sovereignty
Nativism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Isolationism
33. 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
Virtual Representation
Theocracy
Culture of the Quarters
Guerrilla War
34. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Ethnic Cleansing
White Flight
Confederation
Medicaid
35. 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.
Yellow-dog Contract
New Left
Specie Circular
Delegated Powers
36. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Assembly Line
Hawks
McCarthyism
Poll Tax
37. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Doves
Excise Tax
Separation of Powers
Homesteaders
38. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Internal Improvements
White Flight
Division of Powers
New Frontier
39. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Reserved Powers Clause
Escalation
Strict Constructionist
40. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Cotton Gin
Homesteaders
Settlement House Movement
Mortgage-Backed Securities
41. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Isolationism
Self-Governing Colony
Speakeasies
Vietnam Revisionism
42. 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.
Interstate Commerce
Escalation
Separation of Powers
Speakeasies
43. 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
Imperialism
Progressive Movement
Teach-Ins
Primogeniture
44. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Elastic Clause
Boston Tea Party
Jim Crow
Consumer Society
45. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Technological Unemployment
Loyalty Oaths
Kyoto Protocol
Blacklist
46. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Manifest Destiny
Stagflation
Excise Tax
Short-staple Cotton
47. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Delegated Powers
Black Power
Cabinet
48. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Scalawags
Hawks
Protective Tariff
Democracy
49. 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.
Literacy Tests
Unicameral Legislature
Manifest Destiny
Civil Rights Movement
50. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Royal Colony
Anthracite Coal
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Theory of Perpetual Union
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