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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Carpetbaggers
Horizontal Integration
Rugged Individualism
Free Blacks
2. 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
Industrial Unionism
Yellow-dog Contract
Barbed Wire
3. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Intrastate Commerce
Isolationism
Nationalism
Blacklist
4. 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
Kyoto Protocol
Teach-Ins
Self-Governing Colony
5. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Boston Tea Party
Annexation
Bicameral Legislature
Margin Buying
6. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Judicial Review
Jim Crow
Domino Theory
7. 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
Delegated Powers
Suburbia
Escalation
8. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Free Silverites
Homesteaders
Ethnic Cleansing
Virtual Representation
9. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Manifest Destiny
Democracy
Speculation
10. 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
McCarthyism
New Frontier
Assembly Line
11. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Blacklist
Second Wave of Feminism
Grandfather Clauses
Talkies
12. 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.
Strict Constructionist
Isolationism
Scalawags
Elastic Clause
13. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Sit-Ins
Blue Laws
New Left
14. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Suburbia
Secession
Universal Suffrage
Court Packing Scheme
15. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Tenant Farming
Industrial Unionism
Strict Constructionist
Jim Crow
16. 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
Social Gospel
Reserved Powers Clause
Excise Tax
17. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Second Wave of Feminism
Protectorate
Conflict Historiography
Installment Plans
18. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Gender Gap
Yellow-dog Contract
Direct Democracy
Pro-Life
19. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Loyalty Oaths
Primogeniture
Baby Boom
Hawks
20. 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.
Checks and Balances
Tenant Farming
Imperialism
Free Silverites
21. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
Tenant Farming
Domino Theory
Blacklist
Vertical Integration
22. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Doves
Royal Colony
Loyalty Oaths
White Flight
23. 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
Interstate Commerce
Short-staple Cotton
Salutary Neglect
New Immigration
24. 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
Sit-Ins
Direct Democracy
Subprime Mortgage
Consciousness-Raising Groups
25. 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.
Mestizos
Imperialism
Secession
Ecology
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.
Imperialism
Family Values
Medicare
Bootleggers
27. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.
Settlement House Movement
Veto
Confederation
Socialism
28. 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.
Nationalism
Social Gospel
Rugged Individualism
Separation of Powers
29. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Colonization
Direct Democracy
Blacklist
Judicial Review
30. 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
White Flight
Lynching
Social Mobility
Strict Constructionist
31. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Robber Baron
Domino Theory
Nativism
32. 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.
Craft Unionism
Confederation
Boston Tea Party
Cabinet
33. The political position that opposes abortion.
Anthracite Coal
Backlash
Nativism
Pro-Life
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.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Socialism
Direct Primary
Teenagers
35. A method of mass production whereby the products are moved from worker to worker - with each person performing a small - repetitive task on the product and sending it to the next for a different task until the finished item is assembled. In the 18th
Bush Doctrine
Compact Theory
Assembly Line
Ecology
36. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Supply-Side Economics
Margin Buying
Annexation
37. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Virtual Representation
Anthracite Coal
Protective Tariff
Contraband of War
38. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Second Wave of Feminism
Rock and Roll
Bootleggers
Lynching
39. 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
Veto
Culture of the Quarters
Independent Counsel
40. 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
Hawks
Second Wave of Feminism
Ethnic Cleansing
Cowboys
41. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Scalawags
Separation of Powers
Cotton Gin
Specie Circular
42. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte
Sharecropping
Navigation Acts
Lynching
Indentured Servitude
43. 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.
Hawks
Grandfather Clauses
Supply-Side Economics
Two-Party System
44. 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
Headright System
Reserved Powers Clause
Encomienda
Temperance Movement
45. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe
Literacy Tests
Sharecropping
Nationalism
Blacklist
46. 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
Scab
Elastic Clause
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Blacks
47. 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
Patroonship
New Left
Second Wave of Feminism
Injunction
48. 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.
Imperialism
Primogeniture
Nonaggression Treaty
Pro-Life
49. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Socialism
Black Codes
Blacklist
Impeachment
50. 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
Independent Counsel
Jim Crow
Self-Governing Colony
Sharecropping
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