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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Militarism
Salutary Neglect
2. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Salutary Neglect
Protectorate
Militarism
Muckrackers
3. The Eisenhower-era theory that one communist country would infiltrate or influence its neighbors - supporting insurrection there and causing them to become communist too. They would fall like a series of dominoes standing close together. Kennedy - Jo
Planter
Domino Theory
Sit-Down Strike
Interchangeable Parts
4. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Consumer Society
McCarthyism
Popular Sovereignty
Direct Primary
5. 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.
Transcontinental Railway
Bimetallists
Social Mobility
Teenagers
6. 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
Domino Theory
Two-Party System
Bimetallists
Mercantilism
7. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Great Society
Isolationism
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Pragmatism
8. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Horizontal Integration
Isolationism
Kyoto Protocol
Nationalism
9. 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
Poll Tax
Veto
Isolationism
10. 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
Family Values
Intrastate Commerce
Headright System
Tenant Farming
11. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Sit-Ins
Interstate Commerce
Independent Counsel
Nonaggression Treaty
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.
Alliances
War on Terror
Delegated Powers
Appeasement
13. 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.
Short-staple Cotton
Pragmatism
Loyalty Oaths
Gender Gap
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.
Primogeniture
Gender Gap
Barbed Wire
Jim Crow
15. 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.
Summit Meeting
Ecology
Universal Suffrage
Civil Rights Movement
16. 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.
Installment Plans
Progressive Movement
Theory of Perpetual Union
Bailouts
17. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Anti-Communism
Social Mobility
Protective Tariff
Carpetbaggers
18. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Virtual Representation
Black Power
Direct Democracy
19. 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
Barbed Wire
Theory of Perpetual Union
Assembly Line
Vertical Integration
20. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Temperance Movement
Free Silverites
Artsian
21. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
New Frontier
Royal Colony
Free Labor
Yellow-dog Contract
22. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Judicial Review
Subprime Mortgage
Anthracite Coal
Ethnic Cleansing
23. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Primogeniture
Popular Sovereignty
Compassionate Conservatism
Blue Laws
24. 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
Blacklist
Grandfather Clauses
Guerrilla War
Pro-Choice
25. 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
Speculation
Tariff
Specie Circular
26. 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.
Ecology
Militarism
Universal Suffrage
White Flight
27. 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
Injunction
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Navigation Acts
Grandfather Clauses
28. 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.
Patroonship
Tenant Farming
Confederation
McCarthyism
29. An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods is determined by individual consumer preference. It is characterized by the free-enterprise system - competition - profit motive - and pricing based on the laws of supply and demand
Capitalism
Tenant Farming
Homesteaders
Settlement House Movement
30. 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.
Imperialism
Second Wave of Feminism
Yellow-dog Contract
Literacy Tests
31. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Advertising
Literacy Tests
Containment
Assembly Line
32. 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.
Suburbia
Division of Powers
Interstate Commerce
Second Reconstruction
33. 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
Dollar Diplomacy
Teach-Ins
Headright System
Civil Rights Movement
34. The political belief that America's obvious future was to "o'er spread the continent -" in the words of John O'Sullivan in 1846. A corollary was that Americans would bring democracy to the "ignorant and inferior" peoples of the West. The Mexican War
Theocracy
Manifest Destiny
Salutary Neglect
Interstate Commerce
35. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
Family Values
Self-Governing Colony
Patroonship
Backlash
36. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Bush Doctrine
Domino Theory
McCarthyism
Unions
37. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Secession
Carpetbaggers
Mortgage-Backed Securities
38. 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
Consumer Society
Imperialism
Headright System
Reserved Powers Clause
39. 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
Free Soil Position
Black Codes
Loyalty Oaths
Spoils System
40. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Homesteaders
Juvenile Delinquency
Blue Laws
Installment Plans
41. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Independent Counsel
Craft Unionism
Unions
42. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Initiative
Medicare
Alliances
Internal Improvements
43. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Gender Gap
Direct Democracy
Cotton Gin
Bush Doctrine
44. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Protectorate
Artsian
Settlement House Movement
Universal Suffrage
45. 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.
Grandfather Clauses
Progressive Movement
Socialism
Veto
46. 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
Culture of the Quarters
Loyalty Oaths
Bicameral Legislature
Subprime Mortgage
47. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Bimetallists
Popular Sovereignty
Interchangeable Parts
Baby Boom
48. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Settlement House Movement
Telegraph
Assembly Line
49. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Second Wave of Feminism
Doves
Pragmatism
Medicaid
50. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Vietnam Revisionism
Impeachment
Strict Constructionist