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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Socialism
Lynching
Nonaggression Treaty
New Left
2. 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.
Protectorate
Free Soil Position
Capitalism
Cabinet
3. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Imperialism
Medicaid
Impeachment
Teenagers
4. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Advertising
Horizontal Integration
Settlement House Movement
War on Poverty
5. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Pro-Choice
Talkies
Proprietary Colony
Temperance Movement
6. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Sharecropping
Social Mobility
Domino Theory
Yellow-dog Contract
7. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Suburbia
Rugged Individualism
Isolationism
Yellow-dog Contract
8. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Initiative
Vertical Integration
Progressive Movement
New Frontier
9. 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.
Telegraph
Theory of Perpetual Union
Unlawful Combatants
Cabinet
10. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Loyalty Oaths
Unions
Stagflation
11. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Jim Crow
Ratification
Specie Circular
Abolitionism
12. 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.
New Frontier
Socialism
Blacklist
Appeasement
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.
Civil Rights Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Direct Primary
New Frontier
14. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Pragmatism
New Left
Black Codes
Stagflation
15. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Court Packing Scheme
Scalawags
Elastic Clause
Bootleggers
16. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Robber Baron
Secession
Teenagers
Suburbia
17. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Culture Wars
Tenant Farming
Carpetbaggers
Black Power
18. 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.
War on Poverty
Carpetbaggers
Spoils System
Yellow Journalism
19. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Assembly Line
Mercantilism
Second Wave of Feminism
20. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Impeachment
Culture Wars
Anthracite Coal
21. 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
Stagflation
Vertical Integration
Imperialism
22. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Self-Governing Colony
Temperance Movement
Primogeniture
New Frontier
23. 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.
Popular Sovereignty
Appeasement
Veto
Telegraph
24. Organizations - such as the underground press - Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoots - and women's groups (like the Red Stockings) - that were interested in social change but uninterested in the debates over whether to support Russia a
Social Mobility
Consumer Society
New Left
Bicameral Legislature
25. The political position that opposes abortion.
Bootleggers
Pro-Life
Backlash
Guerrilla War
26. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Vietnam Revisionism
Delegated Powers
Free Blacks
White Flight
27. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Injunction
Self-Governing Colony
Bush Doctrine
28. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Trusts
Rugged Individualism
Blacklist
Realist Movement
29. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Direct Democracy
Excise Tax
Cotton Gin
30. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Mestizos
Bush Doctrine
Sit-Down Strike
Cotton Gin
31. 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
Alliances
Headright System
Social Mobility
Grandfather Clauses
32. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market
Free Labor
Margin Buying
Cabinet
Great Society
33. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Free Soil Position
Imperialism
Pragmatism
34. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Blue Laws
Domino Theory
Referendum
Abolitionism
35. 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.
Blacklist
Domino Theory
War on Terror
Medicaid
36. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Movement
37. 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.
Democracy
Anthracite Coal
Appeasement
Literacy Tests
38. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Mercantilism
Sit-Ins
Margin Buying
Excise Tax
39. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Socialism
Imperialism
40. 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.
Confederation
Trusts
Blacklist
Speculation
41. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Virtual Representation
Boston Tea Party
Nationalism
Poll Tax
42. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Ratification
Direct Democracy
Planter
Urban Riots
43. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Imperialism
Gender Gap
Sit-Ins
Black Codes
44. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Compact Theory
Checks and Balances
Democracy
Doves
45. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
New Left
Anti-Communism
New Frontier
Scab
46. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Annexation
Secession
Virtual Representation
Stagflation
47. 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.
Separation of Powers
Social Gospel
Injunction
Puppet Regimes
48. 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.
Spoils System
Social Gospel
Navigation Acts
Manifest Destiny
49. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Baby Boom
Blacklist
Patroonship
Speakeasies
50. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Baby Boom
Imperialism
Reserved Powers Clause
Compassionate Conservatism