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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Civil Rights Movement
Appeasement
Black Power
Anti-Communism
2. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Protective Tariff
Internal Improvements
Ethnic Cleansing
3. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Contraband of War
Nonaggression Treaty
Kyoto Protocol
4. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Universal Suffrage
Temperance Movement
Settlement House Movement
Yellow Journalism
5. 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
Kyoto Protocol
Interchangeable Parts
Vietnam Revisionism
New Immigration
6. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
Speakeasies
Free Soil Position
Artsian
Guerrilla War
7. 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.
McCarthyism
Short-staple Cotton
Stagflation
Self-Governing Colony
8. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Speculation
Conflict Historiography
Pro-Life
Horizontal Integration
9. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Technological Unemployment
Reserved Powers Clause
Trusts
Cotton Gin
10. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Appeasement
Teach-Ins
Secession
Medicare
11. 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.
Cotton Gin
Escalation
Tariff
Medicaid
12. 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
Salutary Neglect
Tariff
Independent Counsel
Boston Tea Party
13. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Referendum
Subprime Mortgage
Alliances
Vertical Integration
14. 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.
Craft Unionism
Ethnic Cleansing
Spoils System
Talkies
15. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Civil Rights Movement
Encomienda
Veto
Consciousness-Raising Groups
16. 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.
Socialism
Rugged Individualism
Tenant Farming
Imperialism
17. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Scalawags
Hawks
Stagflation
Nonaggression Treaty
18. 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
Two-Party System
Mercantilism
Patroonship
Blue Laws
19. 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.
Separation of Powers
Boston Tea Party
Protective Tariff
Court Packing Scheme
20. 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.
Jim Crow
Universal Suffrage
Mercantilism
Medicare
21. 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.
Contraband of War
White Flight
Mass Production
Settlement House Movement
22. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Kyoto Protocol
New Left
Pro-Life
Transcontinental Railway
23. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Jim Crow
Veto
Elastic Clause
Baby Boom
24. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Temperance Movement
Conflict Historiography
Blue Laws
25. 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
Blue Laws
Pro-Choice
Barbed Wire
26. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Transcontinental Railway
Advertising
Socialism
Intrastate Commerce
27. 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.
Gender Gap
Interstate Commerce
Cotton Gin
Bailouts
28. 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.
Ratification
Alliances
Isolationism
Rugged Individualism
29. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Compact Theory
Black Power
Civil Rights Movement
Mortgage-Backed Securities
30. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Stagflation
Social Mobility
Royal Colony
Theocracy
31. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Black Codes
Containment
Domino Theory
Mass Production
32. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Navigation Acts
Nonaggression Treaty
Family Values
Impeachment
33. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Tenant Farming
Delegated Powers
Direct Democracy
Jim Crow
34. 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.
Ecology
Yellow Journalism
Loyalty Oaths
Two-Party System
35. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Direct Democracy
Social Gospel
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Compassionate Conservatism
36. Machine-made or standardized parts that could be put together to make a product. Eli Whitney demonstrated to President John Adams in 1801 how a box of guns could be disassembled and reassembled randomly. Each part must be precision-made so that it wi
Grandfather Clauses
Rugged Individualism
Interchangeable Parts
Progressive Movement
37. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Installment Plans
Social Mobility
Scab
Royal Colony
38. 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.
Stagflation
Vertical Integration
Second Reconstruction
Division of Powers
39. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
Kyoto Protocol
Backlash
Cold War
Internal Improvements
40. The political position advocated by Jerry Falwell - Pat Robertson - and other conservative Republicans emphasizing a life of religious observance along with no drugs - no divorce - no abortions - no homosexuality - no working mothers - and no sex bef
Family Values
Mestizos
Ethnic Cleansing
Carpetbaggers
41. 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
Anthracite Coal
Contraband of War
Family Values
Blue Laws
42. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
McCarthyism
Bicameral Legislature
Unions
Juvenile Delinquency
43. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Interstate Commerce
Cold War
Scalawags
44. 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
Baby Boom
Theory of Perpetual Union
Colonization
Assembly Line
45. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Salutary Neglect
Universal Suffrage
Tenant Farming
Literacy Tests
46. 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
Primogeniture
Realist Movement
Blacklist
Assembly Line
47. 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
Colonization
Telegraph
Manifest Destiny
McCarthyism
48. 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
Jim Crow
Bimetallists
Bailouts
49. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Rugged Individualism
Laissez-Faire
Great Society
Delegated Powers
50. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Sit-Down Strike
Compact Theory
Loyalty Oaths
Mestizos