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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Stagflation
Strict Constructionist
Nationalism
2. The political position advocating sending free blacks to Liberia in Africa to reduce the number of them in the country-the more blacks that were freed - the fewer there would be in America. It was seen as a way of alleviating the danger of slave insu
Alliances
Spoils System
White Flight
Colonization
3. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Assembly Line
Guerrilla War
Blue Laws
4. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Mercantilism
Baby Boom
New Frontier
Domino Theory
5. 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
Rock and Roll
White Flight
Appeasement
6. 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
Protectorate
Conflict Historiography
Dollar Diplomacy
Sharecropping
7. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Baby Boom
Speculation
Universal Suffrage
8. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Medicare
Free Silverites
Trusts
Elastic Clause
9. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Yellow Journalism
Jim Crow
Kyoto Protocol
10. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Poll Tax
Cabinet
Mass Production
Social Mobility
11. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Speculation
Militarism
Pro-Choice
Referendum
12. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Speakeasies
Planter
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Unions
13. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Imperialism
Yellow-dog Contract
Pro-Choice
Kyoto Protocol
14. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Boston Tea Party
Judicial Review
Realist Movement
Scalawags
15. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Abolitionism
Kyoto Protocol
Sit-Down Strike
Reserved Powers Clause
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.
Loose Constructionist
Democracy
Veto
Domino Theory
17. 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.
Culture Wars
Cowboys
Rugged Individualism
Cold War
18. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Consumer Society
Sit-Down Strike
Culture of the Quarters
Installment Plans
19. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Manifest Destiny
Imperialism
Suburbia
Domino Theory
20. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Delegated Powers
Blue Laws
Protective Tariff
Yellow Journalism
21. 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.
Unicameral Legislature
Secession
Free Labor
Free Soil Position
22. 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
Culture of the Quarters
Colonization
Subprime Mortgage
23. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Rock and Roll
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Protectorate
Blacklist
24. 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.
White Flight
Teenagers
Pro-Life
Talkies
25. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Speakeasies
Direct Primary
War on Poverty
Protective Tariff
26. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Elastic Clause
Temperance Movement
Great Society
Baby Boom
27. 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.
Compact Theory
Jim Crow
Urban Riots
Baby Boom
28. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Loyalty Oaths
Isolationism
Cotton Gin
29. 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.
Consumer Society
Free Blacks
Boston Tea Party
Court Packing Scheme
30. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Stagflation
Muckrackers
Mass Production
Isolationism
31. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Consumer Society
Unlawful Combatants
Proprietary Colony
Speakeasies
32. An increase in number - volume - scope. In reference to the Vietnam War - it refers to the increase in the number of troops and the intensity of involvement by the United States.
Jim Crow
Assembly Line
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Escalation
33. The political position that opposes abortion.
Stagflation
Pro-Life
Ethnic Cleansing
Conflict Historiography
34. 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.
Assembly Line
Annexation
Alliances
Ethnic Cleansing
35. 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.
Second Reconstruction
Compassionate Conservatism
Yellow Journalism
Specie Circular
36. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Colonization
Cold War
Doves
Bicameral Legislature
37. 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
Anthracite Coal
Capitalism
Culture Wars
Domino Theory
38. 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.
Settlement House Movement
Theory of Perpetual Union
Socialism
Containment
39. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Nationalism
Annexation
Bimetallists
40. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
War on Poverty
Pro-Life
Bootleggers
Political Machines
41. 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.
Teach-Ins
Doves
Loose Constructionist
Division of Powers
42. 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
Annexation
Direct Primary
Political Machines
Bailouts
43. 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.
Imperialism
Jim Crow
Medicare
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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
Indentured Servitude
Theory of Perpetual Union
Spoils System
Capitalism
45. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
Interstate Commerce
Joint Stock Company
Imperialism
46. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Robber Baron
Confederation
Secession
Black Codes
47. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Cabinet
Planter
Separation of Powers
Loose Constructionist
48. 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
Teach-Ins
Joint Stock Company
Second Reconstruction
Blacklist
49. 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
Compact Theory
Progressive Movement
Margin Buying
Lynching
50. 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
Assembly Line
Independent Counsel
Temperance Movement
Proprietary Colony