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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Tariff
Primogeniture
Baby Boom
Dollar Diplomacy
2. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Specie Circular
Homesteaders
Theory of Perpetual Union
War on Terror
3. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Bicameral Legislature
Domino Theory
Puppet Regimes
Encomienda
4. 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
Domino Theory
Domino Theory
Loose Constructionist
Impeachment
5. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Protective Tariff
Assembly Line
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Conflict Historiography
6. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
Kyoto Protocol
Medicare
Universal Manhood Suffrage
7. 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
Indentured Servitude
Interchangeable Parts
Protective Tariff
Blacklist
8. 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
Mass Production
Blue Laws
Colonization
Impeachment
9. 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.
Tariff
Assembly Line
Veto
Suburbia
10. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Injunction
Sharecropping
Anti-Communism
11. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Tariff
Black Codes
Muckrackers
Guerrilla War
12. 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.
McCarthyism
White Flight
Yellow-dog Contract
Jim Crow
13. 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.
Division of Powers
Puppet Regimes
Democracy
Free Blacks
14. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Vietnam Revisionism
Universal Suffrage
Rugged Individualism
15. 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.
Militarism
Cotton Gin
Conflict Historiography
Baby Boom
16. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Cold War
Anthracite Coal
Rock and Roll
Progressive Movement
17. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.
Unicameral Legislature
Progressive Movement
Backlash
Planter
18. 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.
Yellow-dog Contract
Laissez-Faire
Supply-Side Economics
Settlement House Movement
19. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Containment
Second Wave of Feminism
White Flight
Cotton Gin
20. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Mestizos
New Frontier
Great Society
Free Soil Position
21. The wave of immigration from the 1880s to the 1920s of Eastern and Southern Europeans - contrasted with the "old" immigration of Northern and Western Europeans.
New Immigration
Muckrackers
Universal Suffrage
Internal Improvements
22. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Free Silverites
Protectorate
Impeachment
Cotton Gin
23. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Muckrackers
Baby Boom
Socialism
24. 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
Elastic Clause
Imperialism
Family Values
Containment
25. 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.
Elastic Clause
Bimetallists
Ethnic Cleansing
Proprietary Colony
26. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Short-staple Cotton
Interchangeable Parts
Confederation
Horizontal Integration
27. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Boston Tea Party
Imperialism
Strict Constructionist
Suburbia
28. The process of acquiring new territories
Popular Sovereignty
Scalawags
Barbed Wire
Annexation
29. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
Poll Tax
Pro-Choice
30. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Laissez-Faire
Artsian
Containment
Dollar Diplomacy
31. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Impeachment
Direct Primary
Family Values
Intrastate Commerce
32. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Black Power
Great Society
Scab
33. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Indentured Servitude
Manifest Destiny
Scab
Unlawful Combatants
34. 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 Blacks
Jim Crow
Lynching
Tenant Farming
35. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Domino Theory
Abolitionism
Social Mobility
Annexation
36. 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.
Scab
Culture Wars
Loose Constructionist
Planter
37. 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
Protective Tariff
Margin Buying
Referendum
Urban Riots
38. 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.
Anti-Communism
Direct Primary
Referendum
Free Soil Position
39. 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
Jim Crow
Mercantilism
Literacy Tests
Impeachment
40. 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
Contraband of War
Backlash
Rugged Individualism
Conflict Historiography
41. The study of the environment.
Abolitionism
Ecology
Pro-Choice
Robber Baron
42. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Tariff
Teenagers
Cabinet
Trusts
43. 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
Tariff
Assembly Line
Court Packing Scheme
Nationalism
44. 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.
Checks and Balances
Trusts
Kyoto Protocol
Consumer Society
45. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Colonization
Court Packing Scheme
Nativism
Short-staple Cotton
46. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Free Blacks
Blacklist
Great Society
Blue Laws
47. 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
Domino Theory
Primogeniture
Speculation
48. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Rugged Individualism
Bootleggers
Virtual Representation
Contraband of War
49. Reading tests required in some Southern states before people were allowed to register to vote. They were mainly intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
Literacy Tests
Capitalism
Summit Meeting
Jim Crow
50. 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
Sit-Ins
Separation of Powers
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Guerrilla War