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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Socialism
Alliances
Mestizos
Grandfather Clauses
2. 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.
Salutary Neglect
Teenagers
Protective Tariff
Free Blacks
3. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Compassionate Conservatism
Cold War
Specie Circular
Free Labor
4. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Dollar Diplomacy
Mercantilism
Stagflation
Urban Riots
5. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Court Packing Scheme
Impeachment
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Scab
6. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Domino Theory
Free Labor
Tariff
Supply-Side Economics
7. 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.
Blue Laws
Injunction
Mestizos
Bicameral Legislature
8. 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
Rock and Roll
Second Wave of Feminism
Compact Theory
Transcontinental Railway
9. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Independent Counsel
Escalation
Poll Tax
Cowboys
10. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.
Supply-Side Economics
Summit Meeting
Doves
Planter
11. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Installment Plans
Judicial Review
Ethnic Cleansing
Cowboys
12. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Bootleggers
Assembly Line
White Flight
Strict Constructionist
13. 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.
Jim Crow
Cold War
Division of Powers
Capitalism
14. 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.
Planter
Escalation
Advertising
Universal Manhood Suffrage
15. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Annexation
McCarthyism
Yellow-dog Contract
Virtual Representation
16. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Margin Buying
White Flight
Speculation
Royal Colony
17. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Pro-Life
Containment
Annexation
18. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Cowboys
Culture of the Quarters
Rugged Individualism
19. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Abolitionism
Royal Colony
Free Blacks
Homesteaders
20. 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
Headright System
Mass Production
Militarism
Interchangeable Parts
21. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Joint Stock Company
Court Packing Scheme
Pro-Choice
Tenant Farming
22. 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
Socialism
Jim Crow
Colonization
23. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Impeachment
Planter
Salutary Neglect
Unions
24. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Political Machines
Urban Riots
Realist Movement
Blacklist
25. The political position that opposes abortion.
Checks and Balances
Pro-Life
Isolationism
Sharecropping
26. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Patroonship
Ratification
Blue Laws
New Frontier
27. 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.
Stagflation
Sharecropping
Direct Primary
Free Labor
28. 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.
Advertising
Teenagers
Socialism
Court Packing Scheme
29. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Second Reconstruction
New Frontier
Alliances
Bootleggers
30. 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.
Excise Tax
Free Labor
Delegated Powers
Doves
31. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Ecology
Sit-Down Strike
Yellow-dog Contract
32. 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
Homesteaders
New Left
Imperialism
33. 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
Socialism
Sit-Ins
Self-Governing Colony
34. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Laissez-Faire
Self-Governing Colony
Barbed Wire
Guerrilla War
35. 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
Hawks
Cold War
Urban Riots
Trusts
36. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Cowboys
Isolationism
Social Mobility
Domino Theory
37. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Anti-Communism
Sit-Ins
Homesteaders
Excise Tax
38. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Headright System
Advertising
Installment Plans
Yellow-dog Contract
39. 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
Impressment
White Flight
Barbed Wire
Poll Tax
40. 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.
Political Machines
Isolationism
Appeasement
Supply-Side Economics
41. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Royal Colony
War on Terror
Anthracite Coal
Summit Meeting
42. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Second Wave of Feminism
Suburbia
War on Terror
43. The study of the environment.
Literacy Tests
Medicaid
Protective Tariff
Ecology
44. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
Proprietary Colony
Impeachment
Two-Party System
45. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Black Power
Ratification
Bicameral Legislature
Bootleggers
46. 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.
Stagflation
Black Codes
Cotton Gin
Second Reconstruction
47. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Civil Rights Movement
Trusts
Boston Tea Party
Imperialism
48. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Speakeasies
Speculation
Robber Baron
Hawks
49. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Free Soil Position
Assembly Line
Free Labor
50. 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.
Unions
Loyalty Oaths
Stagflation
Joint Stock Company