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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Culture Wars
Separation of Powers
Impressment
Patroonship
2. 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.
Advertising
Loyalty Oaths
Nonaggression Treaty
Socialism
3. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Black Power
Theory of Perpetual Union
Unions
New Frontier
4. 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
Cotton Gin
Headright System
Craft Unionism
Judicial Review
5. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Barbed Wire
Doves
Escalation
Bush Doctrine
6. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Temperance Movement
Elastic Clause
Puppet Regimes
Pro-Life
7. 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
Medicare
Suburbia
Pragmatism
8. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Nationalism
Protectorate
Appeasement
Realist Movement
9. 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
Sit-Ins
Popular Sovereignty
Subprime Mortgage
Impeachment
10. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Technological Unemployment
Initiative
Excise Tax
Bush Doctrine
11. 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.
Industrial Unionism
Headright System
Short-staple Cotton
Weapons of Mass Destruction
12. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
War on Poverty
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Manifest Destiny
13. 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
Robber Baron
Veto
Laissez-Faire
14. 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.
Navigation Acts
McCarthyism
Political Machines
Juvenile Delinquency
15. The policy used by the British before the War of 1812 wherein the British stopped US vessels and removed sailors from them to be used on British naval vessels. it was also used to a limited extent by the French during this same period. It was one of
Kyoto Protocol
Injunction
Guerrilla War
Impressment
16. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Poll Tax
White Flight
Pragmatism
Social Gospel
17. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Cold War
Unions
Manifest Destiny
18. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Installment Plans
Separation of Powers
Mercantilism
Strict Constructionist
19. A method of mass production whereby the products are moved from worker to worker - with each person performing a small - repetitive task on the product and sending it to the next for a different task until the finished item is assembled. In the 18th
Political Machines
Assembly Line
Baby Boom
Planter
20. 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.
Black Power
Subprime Mortgage
Temperance Movement
Supply-Side Economics
21. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
New Frontier
Compact Theory
Nonaggression Treaty
Injunction
22. 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
Militarism
Domino Theory
New Left
Protective Tariff
23. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Social Gospel
Virtual Representation
Specie Circular
Colonization
24. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Independent Counsel
Excise Tax
Judicial Review
Artsian
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
Sit-Ins
Cowboys
Patroonship
Rugged Individualism
26. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Bootleggers
Mestizos
Direct Democracy
Literacy Tests
27. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Judicial Review
Urban Riots
Nonaggression Treaty
28. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Nonaggression Treaty
Industrial Unionism
Virtual Representation
Initiative
29. 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
Indentured Servitude
Contraband of War
Virtual Representation
30. 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.
Barbed Wire
White Flight
Gender Gap
Consciousness-Raising Groups
31. 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.
Jim Crow
Talkies
Pragmatism
Medicare
32. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Rugged Individualism
Headright System
Contraband of War
33. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Second Reconstruction
Domino Theory
Appeasement
Urban Riots
34. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Realist Movement
Mass Production
Blue Laws
Suburbia
35. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Compact Theory
Contraband of War
Confederation
36. 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.
Self-Governing Colony
Encomienda
Free Silverites
Unions
37. 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.
Tariff
Boston Tea Party
Backlash
Talkies
38. 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.
Short-staple Cotton
Alliances
Appeasement
Puppet Regimes
39. 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
Domino Theory
Jim Crow
Poll Tax
Grandfather Clauses
40. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Capitalism
Jim Crow
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Lynching
41. 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
Free Soil Position
Compassionate Conservatism
Salutary Neglect
Guerrilla War
42. 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
Specie Circular
Headright System
Telegraph
43. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Transcontinental Railway
Appeasement
Unions
44. 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
Royal Colony
Teach-Ins
Joint Stock Company
Barbed Wire
45. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Political Machines
Division of Powers
Grandfather Clauses
Royal Colony
46. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Veto
Nonaggression Treaty
Jim Crow
47. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Domino Theory
Advertising
Unlawful Combatants
Protectorate
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
Capitalism
Compact Theory
Suburbia
49. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Summit Meeting
Headright System
Pragmatism
Mass Production
50. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Domino Theory
Dollar Diplomacy
Yellow Journalism
Teenagers
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