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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Annexation
Imperialism
Realist Movement
Nativism
2. 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
Social Mobility
Independent Counsel
Suburbia
Isolationism
3. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Grandfather Clauses
Social Mobility
Democracy
Talkies
4. 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
Black Power
Gender Gap
Domino Theory
5. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Anti-Communism
Joint Stock Company
Laissez-Faire
Division of Powers
6. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Impressment
Domino Theory
Great Society
Bailouts
7. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Contraband of War
Blacklist
Veto
Compassionate Conservatism
8. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Puppet Regimes
Homesteaders
Compassionate Conservatism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
9. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Injunction
Vertical Integration
Containment
Subprime Mortgage
10. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Theocracy
McCarthyism
Free Labor
Direct Primary
11. 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.
Settlement House Movement
New Left
Internal Improvements
Hawks
12. 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
Referendum
Pragmatism
Initiative
Capitalism
13. 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
Division of Powers
Family Values
Judicial Review
Protective Tariff
14. 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.
Pro-Choice
Talkies
Rock and Roll
Compassionate Conservatism
15. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Vertical Integration
Installment Plans
Medicaid
Blacklist
16. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Bailouts
Trusts
Mestizos
Elastic Clause
17. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Grandfather Clauses
New Frontier
Two-Party System
Free Labor
18. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Suburbia
Subprime Mortgage
Free Soil Position
Muckrackers
19. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Bootleggers
Unicameral Legislature
Royal Colony
Bailouts
20. 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 separation of powers.
Checks and Balances
Specie Circular
Internal Improvements
Socialism
21. 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
Kyoto Protocol
Proprietary Colony
Industrial Unionism
Two-Party System
22. 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.
Puppet Regimes
Imperialism
Nationalism
Domino Theory
23. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Elastic Clause
Carpetbaggers
Subprime Mortgage
Grandfather Clauses
24. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Baby Boom
Veto
Popular Sovereignty
Yellow Journalism
25. 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.
Blacklist
Escalation
Secession
Popular Sovereignty
26. 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
Annexation
Planter
Mercantilism
Unions
27. 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.
Vertical Integration
Yellow Journalism
War on Terror
Manifest Destiny
28. 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
Manifest Destiny
Urban Riots
Rugged Individualism
Puppet Regimes
29. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Settlement House Movement
Second Wave of Feminism
Stagflation
Consciousness-Raising Groups
30. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Excise Tax
Temperance Movement
Free Silverites
31. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Poll Tax
Telegraph
Headright System
Unions
32. The process of acquiring new territories
Referendum
Annexation
Craft Unionism
Impeachment
33. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Popular Sovereignty
Yellow-dog Contract
Pro-Choice
Rock and Roll
34. 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
Rock and Roll
Kyoto Protocol
Unicameral Legislature
Assembly Line
35. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Rock and Roll
Vietnam Revisionism
Poll Tax
Cold War
36. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Compassionate Conservatism
Socialism
Protective Tariff
Craft Unionism
37. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Containment
Summit Meeting
Barbed Wire
Medicare
38. 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
Literacy Tests
Free Labor
Teach-Ins
Sit-Ins
39. 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.
Settlement House Movement
Jim Crow
Patroonship
Installment Plans
40. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Manifest Destiny
Culture of the Quarters
Scab
Popular Sovereignty
41. 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.
Jim Crow
Alliances
Referendum
Democracy
42. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Tenant Farming
Great Society
Impeachment
Impressment
43. 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
Salutary Neglect
Muckrackers
Craft Unionism
44. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Summit Meeting
McCarthyism
Installment Plans
Self-Governing Colony
45. 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
Free Soil Position
Reserved Powers Clause
Mercantilism
Pro-Life
46. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Encomienda
Excise Tax
Socialism
Puppet Regimes
47. 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
Cotton Gin
Contraband of War
Compact Theory
Consumer Society
48. 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.
Impeachment
War on Terror
Anti-Communism
Free Blacks
49. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Mobility
Reserved Powers Clause
Social Gospel
Excise Tax
50. 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.
Self-Governing Colony
Medicare
Horizontal Integration
Telegraph