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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Blue Laws
Vertical Integration
Reserved Powers Clause
Anthracite Coal
2. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Kyoto Protocol
Black Power
Interstate Commerce
Blue Laws
3. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Dollar Diplomacy
Progressive Movement
Guerrilla War
Yellow-dog Contract
4. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Salutary Neglect
Socialism
Cowboys
Pro-Choice
5. 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.
Militarism
New Immigration
War on Terror
Salutary Neglect
6. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Black Codes
Advertising
Intrastate Commerce
Installment Plans
7. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Carpetbaggers
Medicare
Settlement House Movement
Headright System
8. 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.
Jim Crow
Urban Riots
Imperialism
Vertical Integration
9. 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.
Unions
Political Machines
Anthracite Coal
Settlement House Movement
10. 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
Strict Constructionist
Vietnam Revisionism
Technological Unemployment
Contraband of War
11. 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
Transcontinental Railway
Imperialism
Impeachment
Consciousness-Raising Groups
12. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Mestizos
Virtual Representation
Cowboys
Poll Tax
13. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Medicare
Consumer Society
Democracy
Theocracy
14. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Lynching
Laissez-Faire
Teenagers
Grandfather Clauses
15. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Navigation Acts
Protectorate
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Mercantilism
16. 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
Joint Stock Company
Pro-Choice
Capitalism
17. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Conflict Historiography
Initiative
Craft Unionism
Loyalty Oaths
18. 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
Ratification
Homesteaders
Mestizos
Conflict Historiography
19. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Proprietary Colony
Specie Circular
Progressive Movement
Literacy Tests
20. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Backlash
Telegraph
Guerrilla War
21. 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
Margin Buying
Contraband of War
Horizontal Integration
Trusts
22. 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.
Blacklist
Free Labor
Appeasement
Kyoto Protocol
23. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Muckrackers
Loose Constructionist
Isolationism
New Frontier
24. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Cabinet
Unlawful Combatants
25. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Bailouts
Bush Doctrine
Salutary Neglect
Sit-Ins
26. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Domino Theory
Trusts
Internal Improvements
Talkies
27. 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.
Artsian
Veto
Impeachment
New Frontier
28. 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
Independent Counsel
Encomienda
War on Poverty
Nationalism
29. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Realist Movement
Mass Production
Theory of Perpetual Union
Delegated Powers
30. 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
Bush Doctrine
Initiative
Political Machines
31. 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
Cotton Gin
Scab
Joint Stock Company
32. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Anti-Communism
Protective Tariff
Black Power
Loyalty Oaths
33. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations with an aim toward increasing its power and controlling those nations. This was a cause of WWI.
Imperialism
Veto
Literacy Tests
Appeasement
34. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Unicameral Legislature
Trusts
Social Gospel
Grandfather Clauses
35. 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
Craft Unionism
Two-Party System
Second Wave of Feminism
Black Power
36. 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
Political Machines
Capitalism
Mercantilism
37. 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.
Free Labor
Nationalism
Interstate Commerce
Separation of Powers
38. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Delegated Powers
Assembly Line
White Flight
Blue Laws
39. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Compassionate Conservatism
Imperialism
Summit Meeting
Artsian
40. 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.
White Flight
Specie Circular
Loyalty Oaths
Scalawags
41. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Virtual Representation
Impressment
Speakeasies
Bush Doctrine
42. 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.
Capitalism
Alliances
Kyoto Protocol
Direct Democracy
43. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Craft Unionism
Cotton Gin
Mercantilism
Carpetbaggers
44. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Capitalism
Supply-Side Economics
Bailouts
Blacklist
45. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Socialism
Injunction
Confederation
46. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Poll Tax
Medicare
Boston Tea Party
47. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Margin Buying
Black Power
Referendum
Confederation
48. 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.
Specie Circular
Literacy Tests
Elastic Clause
Isolationism
49. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Separation of Powers
Dollar Diplomacy
Assembly Line
Black Power
50. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Black Codes
Socialism