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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Referendum
Free Blacks
Horizontal Integration
2. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Speculation
Juvenile Delinquency
Reserved Powers Clause
Sharecropping
3. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
McCarthyism
Yellow Journalism
Strict Constructionist
Isolationism
4. 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
Patroonship
Independent Counsel
Elastic Clause
New Immigration
5. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Specie Circular
Escalation
Universal Suffrage
6. 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.
Independent Counsel
Black Power
Culture Wars
Doves
7. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Domino Theory
Talkies
Rock and Roll
8. 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
Democracy
Indentured Servitude
Medicare
Independent Counsel
9. 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
Laissez-Faire
Domino Theory
Baby Boom
10. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Independent Counsel
Scab
Blue Laws
Sit-Down Strike
11. 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
Ecology
Domino Theory
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Craft Unionism
12. 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.
Doves
Division of Powers
Second Reconstruction
Cold War
13. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Bush Doctrine
Popular Sovereignty
Patroonship
Protectorate
14. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Poll Tax
Jim Crow
Judicial Review
15. 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
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Abolitionism
Scab
Unions
16. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Doves
Veto
Secession
Poll Tax
17. 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.
Headright System
Virtual Representation
Pragmatism
Cold War
18. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
Primogeniture
Planter
Assembly Line
Yellow-dog Contract
19. 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
Impeachment
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Internal Improvements
Pragmatism
20. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Isolationism
Juvenile Delinquency
Speakeasies
Secession
21. 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.
Telegraph
Horizontal Integration
Compassionate Conservatism
Primogeniture
22. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Division of Powers
Sit-Down Strike
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Court Packing Scheme
23. 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
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Kyoto Protocol
Compact Theory
Impeachment
24. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Progressive Movement
Isolationism
Robber Baron
Social Mobility
25. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Blacklist
Bimetallists
Loyalty Oaths
Talkies
26. 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.
Cotton Gin
Intrastate Commerce
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Subprime Mortgage
27. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Bootleggers
Elastic Clause
Cowboys
Robber Baron
28. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Compassionate Conservatism
White Flight
Escalation
Rock and Roll
29. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Appeasement
Pro-Life
Second Wave of Feminism
Family Values
30. 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.
Unicameral Legislature
Spoils System
Referendum
Summit Meeting
31. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Encomienda
Appeasement
Domino Theory
32. The political position that opposes abortion.
Laissez-Faire
Scalawags
Pro-Life
Vietnam Revisionism
33. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Spoils System
Contraband of War
Containment
Teenagers
34. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Civil Rights Movement
Hawks
Specie Circular
Blacklist
35. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.
Juvenile Delinquency
Annexation
Civil Rights Movement
Telegraph
36. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Margin Buying
Great Society
Annexation
Doves
37. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Democracy
Royal Colony
Protective Tariff
Weapons of Mass Destruction
38. 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
Loose Constructionist
Specie Circular
Temperance Movement
39. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Court Packing Scheme
Social Mobility
Culture of the Quarters
40. 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.
Scab
Carpetbaggers
Free Blacks
Alliances
41. 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
Proprietary Colony
Jim Crow
Assembly Line
Urban Riots
42. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Pragmatism
Stagflation
Teach-Ins
Free Labor
43. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Bush Doctrine
Escalation
Realist Movement
44. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Specie Circular
Anti-Communism
Social Mobility
45. 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.
Assembly Line
Technological Unemployment
Literacy Tests
Imperialism
46. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Theocracy
Sharecropping
Imperialism
Anti-Communism
47. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
New Frontier
Loose Constructionist
Medicare
Supply-Side Economics
48. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Rock and Roll
Indentured Servitude
Transcontinental Railway
Court Packing Scheme
49. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Trusts
Advertising
Salutary Neglect
Universal Manhood Suffrage
50. 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
Delegated Powers
Reserved Powers Clause
Vertical Integration
Militarism