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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Headright System
Medicare
Primogeniture
Joint Stock Company
2. 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.
Pro-Life
Excise Tax
Second Reconstruction
Technological Unemployment
3. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Unicameral Legislature
Boston Tea Party
Suburbia
Pro-Choice
4. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Free Labor
Judicial Review
Sit-Down Strike
Baby Boom
5. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Free Labor
Containment
Reserved Powers Clause
Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
Injunction
Independent Counsel
Jim Crow
7. 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.
Free Labor
Puppet Regimes
Jim Crow
Backlash
8. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Socialism
Popular Sovereignty
Imperialism
Hawks
9. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
White Flight
Advertising
Grandfather Clauses
10. 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.
Anti-Communism
Confederation
Technological Unemployment
Gender Gap
11. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Vietnam Revisionism
Proprietary Colony
Medicaid
Patroonship
12. 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.
Reserved Powers Clause
Injunction
Teenagers
Jim Crow
13. The process of acquiring new territories
Separation of Powers
Protective Tariff
Annexation
Planter
14. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Interchangeable Parts
Judicial Review
Direct Primary
15. 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
Blacklist
Internal Improvements
Sit-Down Strike
16. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Alliances
Headright System
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Teenagers
17. 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
Assembly Line
Judicial Review
Direct Democracy
Pragmatism
18. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Social Gospel
Protective Tariff
New Frontier
Trusts
19. 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.
Delegated Powers
Teach-Ins
Interchangeable Parts
Salutary Neglect
20. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Encomienda
Talkies
Cowboys
Literacy Tests
21. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Boston Tea Party
Suburbia
Direct Democracy
22. 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.
Bimetallists
Confederation
Reserved Powers Clause
Socialism
23. 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.
Protectorate
Settlement House Movement
Hawks
Social Gospel
24. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Initiative
Black Power
Pro-Choice
Gender Gap
25. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Literacy Tests
Culture of the Quarters
Yellow Journalism
26. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Imperialism
Self-Governing Colony
Speakeasies
Yellow-dog Contract
27. 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
Political Machines
Impressment
Bimetallists
Great Society
28. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Royal Colony
Doves
Impeachment
Theocracy
29. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Salutary Neglect
Rock and Roll
White Flight
Settlement House Movement
30. 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
Injunction
Teach-Ins
Two-Party System
Reserved Powers Clause
31. Laws made by the British government restricting colonial trade of sugar and tobacco to any country other than England or by any means other than on British ships.
Muckrackers
Navigation Acts
Culture of the Quarters
Hawks
32. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Secession
Mass Production
Trusts
Summit Meeting
33. The study of the environment.
Social Mobility
Ecology
Artsian
Imperialism
34. 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.
Assembly Line
Planter
Protectorate
Gender Gap
35. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Family Values
Installment Plans
Court Packing Scheme
Trusts
36. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Tenant Farming
Impressment
Assembly Line
Injunction
37. 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.
Self-Governing Colony
Kyoto Protocol
Reserved Powers Clause
Robber Baron
38. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Free Soil Position
Artsian
Ethnic Cleansing
Protectorate
39. 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
Installment Plans
Bootleggers
Socialism
Salutary Neglect
40. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Confederation
Jim Crow
Popular Sovereignty
41. 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.
Judicial Review
Jim Crow
Checks and Balances
Short-staple Cotton
42. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Initiative
Excise Tax
Salutary Neglect
Isolationism
43. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Teach-Ins
Socialism
Popular Sovereignty
Teenagers
44. 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.
Teenagers
Subprime Mortgage
Doves
Great Society
45. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Initiative
Confederation
Protectorate
Isolationism
46. 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
Capitalism
Contraband of War
Two-Party System
Independent Counsel
47. 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.
Imperialism
Elastic Clause
Protective Tariff
Homesteaders
48. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Jim Crow
Unions
Protective Tariff
Joint Stock Company
49. 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
Bailouts
Jim Crow
Family Values
War on Poverty
50. 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
Primogeniture
Vietnam Revisionism
Black Power
Technological Unemployment