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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Containment
Militarism
Socialism
Second Reconstruction
2. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Rock and Roll
Robber Baron
Blacklist
Containment
3. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Universal Suffrage
Rugged Individualism
Militarism
Blacklist
4. 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
Protective Tariff
Tariff
Annexation
Civil Rights Movement
5. 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
Sharecropping
Indentured Servitude
Socialism
6. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Literacy Tests
Isolationism
Bicameral Legislature
Second Reconstruction
7. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Jim Crow
Great Society
Yellow-dog Contract
8. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Theocracy
Culture Wars
Mestizos
Self-Governing Colony
9. 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
Spoils System
Guerrilla War
Kyoto Protocol
Backlash
10. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Speculation
Barbed Wire
Scalawags
Culture of the Quarters
11. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Homesteaders
Nationalism
Navigation Acts
12. 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.
Culture Wars
Domino Theory
War on Terror
Proprietary Colony
13. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
War on Terror
Culture Wars
Intrastate Commerce
Kyoto Protocol
14. 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
Carpetbaggers
Black Power
Assembly Line
Social Gospel
15. 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
Settlement House Movement
Sit-Ins
Anti-Communism
Bootleggers
16. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Cold War
Abolitionism
Yellow Journalism
Stagflation
17. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Short-staple Cotton
Consumer Society
Mercantilism
Rock and Roll
18. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Medicaid
Carpetbaggers
Juvenile Delinquency
Popular Sovereignty
19. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Popular Sovereignty
Black Codes
Backlash
Royal Colony
20. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Kyoto Protocol
Boston Tea Party
Pro-Choice
Backlash
21. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Militarism
Unlawful Combatants
Colonization
Injunction
22. 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.
Elastic Clause
Mass Production
Social Gospel
Separation of Powers
23. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Scab
Gender Gap
Laissez-Faire
Mortgage-Backed Securities
24. 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
Anthracite Coal
Two-Party System
New Frontier
Bush Doctrine
25. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Progressive Movement
Vertical Integration
Protectorate
26. 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.
Elastic Clause
Abolitionism
Bootleggers
Socialism
27. 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
Joint Stock Company
Boston Tea Party
Rock and Roll
Bailouts
28. 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
Subprime Mortgage
Nationalism
Teach-Ins
Joint Stock Company
29. 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.
Blacklist
Free Labor
Lynching
Impeachment
30. 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
Short-staple Cotton
Theocracy
Internal Improvements
Free Silverites
31. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Sharecropping
Direct Primary
New Frontier
32. 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
Isolationism
Impeachment
Consciousness-Raising Groups
33. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Self-Governing Colony
Encomienda
Talkies
Assembly Line
34. 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.
New Immigration
Blue Laws
Socialism
Teenagers
35. 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.
Alliances
Bicameral Legislature
Temperance Movement
Injunction
36. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Urban Riots
Yellow-dog Contract
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Artsian
37. 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
Division of Powers
Ecology
Social Gospel
38. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N
Sit-Ins
Nativism
Stagflation
Bimetallists
39. 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.
New Immigration
Cold War
Black Codes
Political Machines
40. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Great Society
Dollar Diplomacy
Sit-Down Strike
Tenant Farming
41. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.
Intrastate Commerce
Separation of Powers
Imperialism
Stagflation
42. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Royal Colony
Hawks
Anthracite Coal
Stagflation
43. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Blue Laws
Jim Crow
Isolationism
Sit-Down Strike
44. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Two-Party System
McCarthyism
Vietnam Revisionism
Containment
45. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Court Packing Scheme
Industrial Unionism
Jim Crow
Isolationism
46. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Division of Powers
Transcontinental Railway
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Patroonship
47. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Popular Sovereignty
Free Soil Position
Robber Baron
48. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Reserved Powers Clause
Universal Manhood Suffrage
War on Poverty
Black Codes
49. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Bimetallists
Popular Sovereignty
Great Society
Ethnic Cleansing
50. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Alliances
Yellow Journalism
Proprietary Colony
Artsian
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