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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.
Vertical Integration
Kyoto Protocol
Division of Powers
Interstate Commerce
2. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Ratification
Reserved Powers Clause
Second Wave of Feminism
New Left
3. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Bootleggers
Margin Buying
Culture Wars
Black Power
4. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Doves
Capitalism
Free Soil Position
Civil Rights Movement
5. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Bootleggers
Pro-Life
Isolationism
Medicaid
6. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Scalawags
Summit Meeting
Democracy
Cotton Gin
7. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Mestizos
Teenagers
Transcontinental Railway
Excise Tax
8. The study of the environment.
Nativism
Ecology
Impressment
Muckrackers
9. 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.
Popular Sovereignty
Proprietary Colony
Two-Party System
Patroonship
10. 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
Delegated Powers
Blacklist
Salutary Neglect
Two-Party System
11. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Stagflation
Division of Powers
Yellow Journalism
Theory of Perpetual Union
12. 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.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Free Labor
Carpetbaggers
Loyalty Oaths
13. 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
Proprietary Colony
Independent Counsel
Dollar Diplomacy
Second Wave of Feminism
14. 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
Separation of Powers
Protectorate
Guerrilla War
Veto
15. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Barbed Wire
Royal Colony
Carpetbaggers
Literacy Tests
16. 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.
Veto
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Initiative
Bush Doctrine
17. 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
Domino Theory
Cotton Gin
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Guerrilla War
18. 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.
Blue Laws
Spoils System
Pro-Choice
Appeasement
19. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
Rugged Individualism
Grandfather Clauses
Family Values
Abolitionism
20. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Imperialism
Socialism
Self-Governing Colony
21. 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
Margin Buying
Mestizos
Pro-Life
Blacklist
22. 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
Containment
Spoils System
Bimetallists
Salutary Neglect
23. 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.
Stagflation
Joint Stock Company
Sharecropping
Short-staple Cotton
24. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Social Gospel
Compact Theory
Impeachment
Robber Baron
25. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Pro-Choice
Pro-Life
Second Wave of Feminism
Loyalty Oaths
26. 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
Scab
Sit-Down Strike
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Popular Sovereignty
27. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Mass Production
Popular Sovereignty
Carpetbaggers
Settlement House Movement
28. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Talkies
Muckrackers
Intrastate Commerce
Court Packing Scheme
29. The political position that opposes abortion.
Strict Constructionist
Pro-Life
Black Power
Protective Tariff
30. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Talkies
Culture of the Quarters
Black Codes
Secession
31. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Unicameral Legislature
Planter
Loyalty Oaths
Grandfather Clauses
32. 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
Domino Theory
Teach-Ins
Hawks
Pro-Choice
33. 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.
Impeachment
Veto
Puppet Regimes
Protective Tariff
34. 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
Suburbia
Reserved Powers Clause
Teenagers
35. 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.
Injunction
Direct Democracy
Compact Theory
Settlement House Movement
36. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Yellow Journalism
Kyoto Protocol
Protective Tariff
37. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Separation of Powers
Socialism
Craft Unionism
38. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Joint Stock Company
Scab
Bailouts
Domino Theory
39. The process of acquiring new territories
Muckrackers
Self-Governing Colony
Second Wave of Feminism
Annexation
40. 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
Sit-Ins
Theory of Perpetual Union
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Installment Plans
41. 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 separation of powers.
Loyalty Oaths
Checks and Balances
Temperance Movement
Technological Unemployment
42. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Scab
Salutary Neglect
Hawks
Mortgage-Backed Securities
43. 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.
Initiative
Loyalty Oaths
Technological Unemployment
Second Wave of Feminism
44. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Barbed Wire
Direct Democracy
Interchangeable Parts
McCarthyism
45. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Indentured Servitude
Assembly Line
Sit-Ins
Ratification
46. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Horizontal Integration
Free Soil Position
Pro-Choice
47. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Free Labor
Abolitionism
Teenagers
Trusts
48. 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.
Domino Theory
Supply-Side Economics
Delegated Powers
Puppet Regimes
49. The practice of victorious candidates distributing government jobs to friends and supporters rather than to the most qualified people. Andre Jackson gave his supporters the spoils of victory - whereas John Quincy Adams by and large did not.
Spoils System
Free Silverites
Horizontal Integration
Barbed Wire
50. 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.
Literacy Tests
Transcontinental Railway
Baby Boom
Vietnam Revisionism