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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Barbed Wire
Jim Crow
Progressive Movement
Royal Colony
2. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Ecology
Tenant Farming
New Immigration
Trusts
3. 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.
Free Blacks
Backlash
Blacklist
Ethnic Cleansing
4. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Impeachment
Loose Constructionist
Black Power
5. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Free Labor
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Bimetallists
McCarthyism
6. 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.
Containment
Horizontal Integration
Interstate Commerce
Settlement House Movement
7. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Cotton Gin
Unicameral Legislature
Popular Sovereignty
Injunction
8. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Division of Powers
Blue Laws
Poll Tax
Weapons of Mass Destruction
9. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Confederation
Blue Laws
Isolationism
Interstate Commerce
10. 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
Urban Riots
Internal Improvements
Scalawags
Imperialism
11. 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
Transcontinental Railway
Yellow Journalism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Jim Crow
12. 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
Abolitionism
Tariff
Subprime Mortgage
Independent Counsel
13. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Impeachment
Family Values
Isolationism
Popular Sovereignty
14. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Encomienda
Independent Counsel
Nationalism
Muckrackers
15. 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
Salutary Neglect
Internal Improvements
New Left
Cabinet
16. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Excise Tax
Dollar Diplomacy
White Flight
Domino Theory
17. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
War on Terror
Protective Tariff
McCarthyism
Imperialism
18. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Anti-Communism
Speculation
Navigation Acts
Family Values
19. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Mestizos
Free Soil Position
Bailouts
Secession
20. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Laissez-Faire
Direct Primary
Rock and Roll
Intrastate Commerce
21. 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.
Grandfather Clauses
Compact Theory
Loyalty Oaths
Speculation
22. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Referendum
Impressment
Appeasement
23. 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
Manifest Destiny
Juvenile Delinquency
Domino Theory
Compact Theory
24. The process of acquiring new territories
Proprietary Colony
Annexation
Poll Tax
Speculation
25. 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
Abolitionism
Theory of Perpetual Union
Domino Theory
Democracy
26. 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
Free Labor
Sit-Down Strike
Confederation
27. 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
Isolationism
Social Gospel
Two-Party System
Teach-Ins
28. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Cold War
Excise Tax
Juvenile Delinquency
Rock and Roll
29. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Sit-Down Strike
Direct Primary
Initiative
Talkies
30. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Protective Tariff
Containment
Horizontal Integration
Domino Theory
31. 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
Two-Party System
Assembly Line
Backlash
Gender Gap
32. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Great Society
Interstate Commerce
Talkies
Planter
33. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Escalation
Rock and Roll
Dollar Diplomacy
Protectorate
34. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Theocracy
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Anthracite Coal
Stagflation
35. 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
Conflict Historiography
Assembly Line
Gender Gap
Domino Theory
36. 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
Proprietary Colony
Urban Riots
Annexation
Teenagers
37. 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
Universal Suffrage
New Frontier
Conflict Historiography
Impressment
38. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Mass Production
Black Codes
Technological Unemployment
Unlawful Combatants
39. 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
Impeachment
Cotton Gin
Mestizos
Universal Suffrage
40. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Muckrackers
Popular Sovereignty
Dollar Diplomacy
Talkies
41. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Conflict Historiography
Black Power
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Bimetallists
42. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Assembly Line
Trusts
White Flight
Medicaid
43. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Division of Powers
Pro-Life
Theocracy
44. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Advertising
Doves
Impressment
Popular Sovereignty
45. 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
Democracy
Literacy Tests
Free Soil Position
Sharecropping
46. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Second Reconstruction
Loose Constructionist
Summit Meeting
Elastic Clause
47. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Protective Tariff
Domino Theory
Intrastate Commerce
Democracy
48. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
White Flight
Scalawags
Civil Rights Movement
Theocracy
49. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Cotton Gin
Compassionate Conservatism
Civil Rights Movement
Realist Movement
50. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Encomienda
Delegated Powers
Family Values
War on Poverty