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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Gender Gap
Universal Suffrage
Laissez-Faire
Royal Colony
2. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Black Codes
Imperialism
Ecology
Consciousness-Raising Groups
3. 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
Scab
Reserved Powers Clause
Democracy
Excise Tax
4. 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
Democracy
Abolitionism
Bailouts
Temperance Movement
5. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Direct Primary
Medicaid
Talkies
Pro-Choice
6. 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.
Culture Wars
Loyalty Oaths
Compassionate Conservatism
Talkies
7. 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
Industrial Unionism
Capitalism
Sit-Down Strike
8. 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.
Installment Plans
Confederation
Interchangeable Parts
Socialism
9. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Anthracite Coal
Kyoto Protocol
Sharecropping
10. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Manifest Destiny
Bush Doctrine
Kyoto Protocol
Barbed Wire
11. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Culture of the Quarters
Teach-Ins
Injunction
Temperance Movement
12. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Tenant Farming
Installment Plans
Excise Tax
Domino Theory
13. 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.
Consumer Society
Ecology
Militarism
Encomienda
14. 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
Temperance Movement
Spoils System
Manifest Destiny
Vietnam Revisionism
15. 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.
New Immigration
Domino Theory
Sit-Down Strike
Backlash
16. 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
Virtual Representation
Blacklist
Impressment
Yellow Journalism
17. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Court Packing Scheme
Yellow-dog Contract
Gender Gap
18. 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.
Short-staple Cotton
Speculation
Primogeniture
Bailouts
19. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Sit-Ins
Muckrackers
Culture of the Quarters
Ratification
20. 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
Nativism
Vietnam Revisionism
Direct Primary
Appeasement
21. The idea that machinery eliminates the need for human employment-that the development of new machine-based methods of work can lead to workers' losing their jobs.
Technological Unemployment
Popular Sovereignty
Impeachment
White Flight
22. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Realist Movement
Progressive Movement
Trusts
Tenant Farming
23. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Patroonship
Self-Governing Colony
24. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
New Immigration
Domino Theory
Rock and Roll
McCarthyism
25. 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
Spoils System
Salutary Neglect
Suburbia
Universal Manhood Suffrage
26. 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
Court Packing Scheme
Referendum
Craft Unionism
27. 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
Imperialism
Urban Riots
Teenagers
Protectorate
28. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
War on Terror
Abolitionism
New Immigration
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 separation of powers.
Boston Tea Party
Nationalism
Baby Boom
Checks and Balances
30. 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.
Blacklist
Political Machines
Bimetallists
Second Reconstruction
31. 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.
Hawks
Political Machines
Protective Tariff
Gender Gap
32. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Indentured Servitude
Great Society
Protective Tariff
33. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Black Codes
Loose Constructionist
Socialism
Division of Powers
34. 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
Free Labor
Muckrackers
Industrial Unionism
35. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Planter
Excise Tax
Ratification
Mortgage-Backed Securities
36. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Blacklist
Ratification
Muckrackers
Doves
37. 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.
Direct Democracy
Jim Crow
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Telegraph
38. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Planter
Anthracite Coal
Referendum
39. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Bailouts
Scab
Loyalty Oaths
40. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Delegated Powers
Pragmatism
Stagflation
Separation of Powers
41. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Patroonship
Excise Tax
Unicameral Legislature
Lynching
42. 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
Protectorate
Rugged Individualism
Compassionate Conservatism
Grandfather Clauses
43. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Teenagers
Direct Democracy
Interchangeable Parts
44. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte
Teach-Ins
Assembly Line
Temperance Movement
Indentured Servitude
45. 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
Family Values
Yellow-dog Contract
Blacklist
46. 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.
Initiative
Intrastate Commerce
Loose Constructionist
Backlash
47. 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.
Division of Powers
Literacy Tests
Injunction
Hawks
48. 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
Puppet Regimes
Independent Counsel
Unions
New Immigration
49. 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.
Cold War
Pragmatism
Second Wave of Feminism
Gender Gap
50. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Socialism
Short-staple Cotton
Scab