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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Colonization
Isolationism
Summit Meeting
Ratification
2. 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
Black Codes
Telegraph
Technological Unemployment
Sit-Ins
3. 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.
Protectorate
Conflict Historiography
Compassionate Conservatism
Referendum
4. 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.
Trusts
Realist Movement
Robber Baron
Civil Rights Movement
5. The study of the environment.
Dollar Diplomacy
Robber Baron
Mestizos
Ecology
6. 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
Free Blacks
Kyoto Protocol
Proprietary Colony
7. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Dollar Diplomacy
Socialism
Excise Tax
Free Blacks
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
Compact Theory
Democracy
Salutary Neglect
Primogeniture
9. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Kyoto Protocol
Poll Tax
War on Terror
Militarism
10. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Grandfather Clauses
Universal Suffrage
Tenant Farming
Intrastate Commerce
11. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Abolitionism
Mercantilism
Industrial Unionism
12. 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
Spoils System
Second Wave of Feminism
Guerrilla War
Free Labor
13. 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
Separation of Powers
Compact Theory
Initiative
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.
Protective Tariff
Spoils System
Universal Suffrage
Craft Unionism
15. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Elastic Clause
Initiative
Speculation
Jim Crow
16. 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
Joint Stock Company
Short-staple Cotton
Mestizos
Interstate Commerce
17. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Great Society
Yellow-dog Contract
Jim Crow
Checks and Balances
18. 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
Judicial Review
Referendum
Rugged Individualism
Guerrilla War
19. 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
Homesteaders
Summit Meeting
Tenant Farming
20. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Speakeasies
Homesteaders
Juvenile Delinquency
Grandfather Clauses
21. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Subprime Mortgage
Culture of the Quarters
Second Reconstruction
Barbed Wire
22. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Internal Improvements
Juvenile Delinquency
Secession
Free Labor
23. 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
Nativism
Carpetbaggers
Direct Democracy
Trusts
24. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Tenant Farming
Blacklist
Specie Circular
Court Packing Scheme
25. 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
Theocracy
Anti-Communism
Ratification
26. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Initiative
Baby Boom
Indentured Servitude
Contraband of War
27. 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.
Conflict Historiography
Democracy
Free Blacks
New Frontier
28. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Joint Stock Company
Lynching
Royal Colony
Bimetallists
29. 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
Progressive Movement
New Frontier
Yellow Journalism
Culture Wars
30. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Democracy
Jim Crow
Talkies
Judicial Review
31. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
Primogeniture
Blue Laws
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Judicial Review
32. 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.
War on Terror
Cotton Gin
Nationalism
Internal Improvements
33. 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.
Escalation
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Craft Unionism
Loose Constructionist
34. 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.
Strict Constructionist
Cold War
Vietnam Revisionism
Homesteaders
35. 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
Laissez-Faire
Primogeniture
Virtual Representation
Impressment
36. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Scab
War on Poverty
Independent Counsel
37. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Two-Party System
Tariff
Planter
Blacklist
38. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Jim Crow
Progressive Movement
Assembly Line
39. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Interchangeable Parts
Unicameral Legislature
Cabinet
Spoils System
40. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Stagflation
Colonization
Industrial Unionism
Robber Baron
41. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Compassionate Conservatism
Anti-Communism
Excise Tax
Carpetbaggers
42. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Bicameral Legislature
Summit Meeting
Vertical Integration
43. 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.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Protectorate
Imperialism
Loose Constructionist
44. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Juvenile Delinquency
Isolationism
Bimetallists
New Immigration
45. 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 separation of powers.
Checks and Balances
Guerrilla War
Social Mobility
Cabinet
46. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Interchangeable Parts
Laissez-Faire
Speculation
Industrial Unionism
47. 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.
Manifest Destiny
Settlement House Movement
Separation of Powers
Transcontinental Railway
48. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
War on Terror
McCarthyism
Cotton Gin
War on Poverty
49. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Strict Constructionist
Universal Suffrage
Baby Boom
Containment
50. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Installment Plans
Internal Improvements
Popular Sovereignty
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