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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Escalation
Democracy
Blue Laws
Mortgage-Backed Securities
2. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Navigation Acts
New Frontier
Talkies
3. 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.
Social Mobility
Spoils System
Cold War
Settlement House Movement
4. 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
Culture Wars
Nativism
Suburbia
5. 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.
Theocracy
Mortgage-Backed Securities
War on Terror
New Immigration
6. 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.
Ecology
New Immigration
Free Labor
Interstate Commerce
7. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Pro-Choice
Pro-Life
Socialism
Horizontal Integration
8. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Universal Suffrage
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Anthracite Coal
Interstate Commerce
9. The political position that opposes abortion.
Nativism
Colonization
Pro-Life
Domino Theory
10. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Indentured Servitude
Blacklist
White Flight
Juvenile Delinquency
11. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Contraband of War
Suburbia
Reserved Powers Clause
Puppet Regimes
12. 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
Temperance Movement
Joint Stock Company
Cabinet
13. 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
Dollar Diplomacy
Nonaggression Treaty
Conflict Historiography
Manifest Destiny
14. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Confederation
Cotton Gin
Lynching
Free Silverites
15. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Rock and Roll
Cotton Gin
Independent Counsel
Protective Tariff
16. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Cotton Gin
Virtual Representation
Blacklist
Colonization
17. 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.
Appeasement
Imperialism
Compact Theory
Loyalty Oaths
18. 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.
Cowboys
Popular Sovereignty
Militarism
Nonaggression Treaty
19. 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
Joint Stock Company
Self-Governing Colony
Settlement House Movement
20. 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
Separation of Powers
Primogeniture
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Colonization
21. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Short-staple Cotton
Loose Constructionist
Compassionate Conservatism
Realist Movement
22. The idea that machinery eliminates the need for human employment-that the development of new machine-based methods of work can lead to workers' losing their jobs.
Unions
Technological Unemployment
Margin Buying
Manifest Destiny
23. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Temperance Movement
Urban Riots
Poll Tax
Homesteaders
24. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Progressive Movement
Consumer Society
Vertical Integration
25. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Excise Tax
Blue Laws
Scalawags
Reserved Powers Clause
26. 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
Teach-Ins
Assembly Line
Nationalism
Separation of Powers
27. 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.
Socialism
Spoils System
Loose Constructionist
Technological Unemployment
28. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Indentured Servitude
Interchangeable Parts
War on Terror
Rock and Roll
29. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Cowboys
Puppet Regimes
Bicameral Legislature
Kyoto Protocol
30. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Black Codes
Progressive Movement
Navigation Acts
Teenagers
31. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Speculation
Isolationism
Protective Tariff
Navigation Acts
32. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.
Spoils System
Margin Buying
Intrastate Commerce
Self-Governing Colony
33. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Scab
Short-staple Cotton
Teach-Ins
Delegated Powers
34. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Ecology
Great Society
Craft Unionism
Grandfather Clauses
35. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Spoils System
Muckrackers
Nationalism
36. 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
Free Soil Position
Assembly Line
Assembly Line
37. 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.
Rugged Individualism
Gender Gap
Confederation
Industrial Unionism
38. 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
Secession
Realist Movement
Isolationism
39. 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
Abolitionism
Loose Constructionist
Black Codes
Juvenile Delinquency
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.
Cold War
Social Gospel
Transcontinental Railway
Confederation
41. 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
Internal Improvements
Joint Stock Company
Realist Movement
Consumer Society
42. 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.
Bicameral Legislature
Veto
Realist Movement
Culture Wars
43. 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
Encomienda
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Backlash
Veto
44. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Dollar Diplomacy
Popular Sovereignty
Teach-Ins
Scalawags
45. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Second Reconstruction
Universal Suffrage
Artsian
Protective Tariff
46. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Planter
Ratification
Militarism
Patroonship
47. 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
Urban Riots
Veto
New Left
Conflict Historiography
48. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Pro-Choice
Nonaggression Treaty
Progressive Movement
49. 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.
Free Silverites
Checks and Balances
Temperance Movement
Socialism
50. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Salutary Neglect
Direct Democracy
Veto
Bailouts