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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Spoils System
Black Codes
Impeachment
War on Terror
2. 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
Self-Governing Colony
Independent Counsel
Abolitionism
Anti-Communism
3. 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
Independent Counsel
Family Values
Juvenile Delinquency
Indentured Servitude
4. 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
Suburbia
Muckrackers
Scab
5. 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
New Immigration
Nationalism
Baby Boom
Anti-Communism
6. 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.
Consumer Society
War on Poverty
Sharecropping
Joint Stock Company
7. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Confederation
Self-Governing Colony
Unicameral Legislature
8. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Separation of Powers
Second Wave of Feminism
Jim Crow
9. Reading tests required in some Southern states before people were allowed to register to vote. They were mainly intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
Talkies
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
Nationalism
10. 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
Impressment
Guerrilla War
Culture of the Quarters
Telegraph
11. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Excise Tax
Strict Constructionist
Cold War
12. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market
Militarism
Nationalism
Margin Buying
Virtual Representation
13. 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
Black Codes
Encomienda
Checks and Balances
Salutary Neglect
14. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Dollar Diplomacy
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Theory of Perpetual Union
Medicare
15. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Delegated Powers
Sit-Down Strike
Second Reconstruction
Blacklist
16. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Juvenile Delinquency
Containment
Strict Constructionist
Lynching
17. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Bush Doctrine
Homesteaders
Sharecropping
Injunction
18. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Literacy Tests
Gender Gap
Urban Riots
Dollar Diplomacy
19. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Loyalty Oaths
Black Power
Craft Unionism
Planter
20. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Assembly Line
Gender Gap
Self-Governing Colony
Internal Improvements
21. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
War on Terror
Anti-Communism
Imperialism
Teach-Ins
22. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Delegated Powers
Medicaid
Nonaggression Treaty
Proprietary Colony
23. The study of the environment.
Pro-Life
Protectorate
Ecology
Medicare
24. 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.
Conflict Historiography
Militarism
Progressive Movement
Medicare
25. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Specie Circular
New Immigration
Initiative
Technological Unemployment
26. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Rugged Individualism
Pro-Life
Blacklist
Consciousness-Raising Groups
27. 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.
Imperialism
Sit-Down Strike
Jim Crow
Baby Boom
28. 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
Indentured Servitude
Guerrilla War
Mercantilism
Supply-Side Economics
29. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Checks and Balances
Technological Unemployment
Poll Tax
30. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Encomienda
Yellow Journalism
Bicameral Legislature
Socialism
31. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Planter
Free Silverites
Black Power
32. 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.
Appeasement
White Flight
Kyoto Protocol
Specie Circular
33. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Isolationism
Nationalism
Horizontal Integration
Artsian
34. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Craft Unionism
Margin Buying
Protective Tariff
Theory of Perpetual Union
35. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Patroonship
Stagflation
Pro-Choice
Free Blacks
36. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Loyalty Oaths
Secession
Veto
37. 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
Compact Theory
Protectorate
Theory of Perpetual Union
38. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Baby Boom
Injunction
Jim Crow
Bimetallists
39. 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
Loose Constructionist
Technological Unemployment
Domino Theory
Pro-Life
40. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Pragmatism
Confederation
Great Society
Mortgage-Backed Securities
41. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Speculation
Horizontal Integration
Colonization
42. 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.
Impeachment
Ratification
Vertical Integration
Doves
43. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Suburbia
Progressive Movement
Artsian
Anthracite Coal
44. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Teach-Ins
Summit Meeting
Impeachment
Medicare
45. 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
Capitalism
Royal Colony
Compassionate Conservatism
46. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Initiative
Independent Counsel
Militarism
Consumer Society
47. 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.
Cotton Gin
Free Labor
Artsian
Proprietary Colony
48. 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
Puppet Regimes
Installment Plans
Intrastate Commerce
Compact Theory
49. 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
Settlement House Movement
Impeachment
Specie Circular
Pro-Choice
50. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
Backlash
Talkies
Self-Governing Colony
Speakeasies