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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Baby Boom
Nativism
Isolationism
Realist Movement
2. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Appeasement
Kyoto Protocol
Alliances
3. 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
Compact Theory
Appeasement
Mercantilism
Realist Movement
4. 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.
Grandfather Clauses
Teach-Ins
Supply-Side Economics
Civil Rights Movement
5. 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
Intrastate Commerce
Domino Theory
Confederation
6. 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.
Scalawags
Domino Theory
New Frontier
Boston Tea Party
7. 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.
Encomienda
Socialism
Muckrackers
Second Reconstruction
8. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Juvenile Delinquency
Direct Democracy
Direct Primary
Hawks
9. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Independent Counsel
Blue Laws
Protective Tariff
Universal Suffrage
10. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Baby Boom
Separation of Powers
Social Mobility
Planter
11. 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
Technological Unemployment
Boston Tea Party
Conflict Historiography
Teenagers
12. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Containment
Two-Party System
Contraband of War
Encomienda
13. 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.
Cowboys
Theocracy
Civil Rights Movement
Craft Unionism
14. 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.
Suburbia
Dollar Diplomacy
Jim Crow
Scalawags
15. 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
Elastic Clause
Teach-Ins
Self-Governing Colony
Talkies
16. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Political Machines
Subprime Mortgage
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Popular Sovereignty
17. 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
Loose Constructionist
Vietnam Revisionism
Grandfather Clauses
Protective Tariff
18. 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
Impeachment
Excise Tax
Salutary Neglect
Court Packing Scheme
19. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Bush Doctrine
Installment Plans
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Weapons of Mass Destruction
20. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Horizontal Integration
War on Terror
Doves
Indentured Servitude
21. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Speculation
Scalawags
Contraband of War
22. 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.
Escalation
Anti-Communism
Socialism
Direct Primary
23. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Boston Tea Party
Democracy
Civil Rights Movement
Pro-Life
24. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Mercantilism
Cold War
Division of Powers
Speculation
25. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Cold War
Trusts
Manifest Destiny
Technological Unemployment
26. 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.
Spoils System
Imperialism
Socialism
Direct Primary
27. 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
Talkies
Free Soil Position
Assembly Line
28. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Stagflation
Impeachment
Poll Tax
Jim Crow
29. 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
Pragmatism
Yellow-dog Contract
War on Terror
Two-Party System
30. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Secession
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Medicare
Artsian
31. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Grandfather Clauses
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Medicare
Horizontal Integration
32. 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
Vertical Integration
Popular Sovereignty
White Flight
Independent Counsel
33. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Blacklist
Specie Circular
Anti-Communism
34. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Teenagers
Two-Party System
Contraband of War
35. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Mercantilism
Internal Improvements
Militarism
Initiative
36. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Protective Tariff
Protective Tariff
Homesteaders
Robber Baron
37. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Excise Tax
Pro-Choice
Progressive Movement
38. 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.
Scab
Mestizos
Anthracite Coal
Blue Laws
39. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Dollar Diplomacy
Settlement House Movement
Blacklist
40. The idea that machinery eliminates the need for human employment-that the development of new machine-based methods of work can lead to workers' losing their jobs.
Technological Unemployment
Checks and Balances
Pro-Choice
Vietnam Revisionism
41. 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.
Direct Primary
Referendum
Telegraph
McCarthyism
42. 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.
Veto
Conflict Historiography
Strict Constructionist
White Flight
43. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it
Hawks
Patroonship
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Guerrilla War
44. 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.
Two-Party System
Tenant Farming
White Flight
Settlement House Movement
45. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N
Unlawful Combatants
Nonaggression Treaty
Doves
Nativism
46. 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
Interstate Commerce
Tariff
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Transcontinental Railway
47. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Appeasement
Speculation
Free Silverites
Weapons of Mass Destruction
48. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
Rugged Individualism
Royal Colony
Stagflation
Bootleggers
49. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Initiative
White Flight
Isolationism
Jim Crow
50. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Annexation
Royal Colony
Mercantilism
Excise Tax
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