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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Anti-Communism
Alliances
Annexation
Nativism
2. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Speculation
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Technological Unemployment
3. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Conflict Historiography
Socialism
Bicameral Legislature
Universal Manhood Suffrage
4. 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
Craft Unionism
Family Values
Social Gospel
White Flight
5. 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
Patroonship
Impeachment
Urban Riots
Theory of Perpetual Union
6. 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
Conflict Historiography
Free Labor
New Left
Containment
7. 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
Laissez-Faire
Manifest Destiny
Summit Meeting
Referendum
8. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Poll Tax
Specie Circular
Carpetbaggers
Planter
9. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Telegraph
Culture Wars
Bimetallists
Anti-Communism
10. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Royal Colony
Guerrilla War
Specie Circular
Horizontal Integration
11. 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.
Muckrackers
Anti-Communism
Veto
Nationalism
12. 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
Socialism
Compact Theory
White Flight
Urban Riots
13. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Scalawags
Muckrackers
Nativism
Direct Primary
14. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Juvenile Delinquency
Black Codes
Direct Primary
Stagflation
15. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Technological Unemployment
Isolationism
Homesteaders
16. 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.
Referendum
Domino Theory
Mass Production
Vertical Integration
17. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Free Blacks
Joint Stock Company
Separation of Powers
Social Gospel
18. 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
Joint Stock Company
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Blue Laws
Tariff
19. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Manifest Destiny
Separation of Powers
Grandfather Clauses
Suburbia
20. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Imperialism
Bimetallists
Stagflation
21. 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
Mercantilism
Summit Meeting
Medicaid
Impeachment
22. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Boston Tea Party
Reserved Powers Clause
Consumer Society
Internal Improvements
23. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Vertical Integration
Escalation
Gender Gap
24. 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.
Jim Crow
Loose Constructionist
Blacklist
Militarism
25. 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.
Impressment
Supply-Side Economics
Poll Tax
Appeasement
26. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Realist Movement
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Horizontal Integration
Settlement House Movement
27. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Puppet Regimes
Social Gospel
Theory of Perpetual Union
Suburbia
28. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Black Power
Robber Baron
Poll Tax
Tenant Farming
29. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Manifest Destiny
Capitalism
Speakeasies
Protectorate
30. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Protectorate
Carpetbaggers
Militarism
Sharecropping
31. 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.
Primogeniture
Blacklist
Isolationism
Free Silverites
32. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Ratification
Medicare
Boston Tea Party
Muckrackers
33. 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
Loose Constructionist
Short-staple Cotton
Division of Powers
Blue Laws
34. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Protectorate
Scalawags
Settlement House Movement
35. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Teenagers
Horizontal Integration
White Flight
Injunction
36. 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
Democracy
Colonization
Popular Sovereignty
Separation of Powers
37. 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
Political Machines
New Frontier
Culture Wars
Blacklist
38. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Salutary Neglect
Robber Baron
Stagflation
Speakeasies
39. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Rugged Individualism
Social Gospel
Headright System
Royal Colony
40. Blacks who had been freed from slavery or were not born slaves. They lived in the cities and countryside in both the North and the South. In 1860 - there were about 500 -000 free blacks evenly distributed between the North and the South.
Cold War
Craft Unionism
Free Blacks
Theory of Perpetual Union
41. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Tariff
Talkies
Ratification
Weapons of Mass Destruction
42. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Headright System
Delegated Powers
Encomienda
Self-Governing Colony
43. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Direct Democracy
Scab
Political Machines
Cabinet
44. 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.
Nationalism
Margin Buying
Installment Plans
Kyoto Protocol
45. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Temperance Movement
Vietnam Revisionism
Isolationism
Progressive Movement
46. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Indentured Servitude
War on Poverty
Planter
Pragmatism
47. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Doves
Summit Meeting
Isolationism
Compassionate Conservatism
48. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Elastic Clause
Family Values
Capitalism
Sit-Ins
49. 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
Direct Democracy
Judicial Review
Planter
Speakeasies
50. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Domino Theory
Theocracy
Horizontal Integration
Robber Baron
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