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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Cold War
Confederation
Independent Counsel
Proprietary Colony
2. 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
Mercantilism
Poll Tax
Annexation
Culture Wars
3. 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.
Abolitionism
Guerrilla War
Militarism
Horizontal Integration
4. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Backlash
Unions
Free Soil Position
Isolationism
5. 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.
Capitalism
Consumer Society
Popular Sovereignty
Spoils System
6. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Delegated Powers
Blacklist
McCarthyism
Assembly Line
7. 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.
Teenagers
Ecology
Unions
Theory of Perpetual Union
8. 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
Talkies
Free Labor
Loose Constructionist
Bailouts
9. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Initiative
Teenagers
Summit Meeting
Abolitionism
10. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Salutary Neglect
Lynching
Interstate Commerce
Excise Tax
11. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Backlash
Horizontal Integration
Socialism
Self-Governing Colony
12. 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
Teach-Ins
Escalation
Internal Improvements
Free Silverites
13. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Independent Counsel
Anthracite Coal
White Flight
14. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Vertical Integration
Impeachment
Pro-Choice
Barbed Wire
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.
Civil Rights Movement
Self-Governing Colony
Second Wave of Feminism
Loose Constructionist
16. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Teenagers
Nativism
Direct Primary
Universal Manhood Suffrage
17. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Injunction
Ratification
Blacklist
Poll Tax
18. 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
Advertising
Interchangeable Parts
Puppet Regimes
Domino Theory
19. 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.
Baby Boom
Free Soil Position
Impeachment
Puppet Regimes
20. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Impeachment
Injunction
Muckrackers
Mestizos
21. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Grandfather Clauses
Indentured Servitude
War on Poverty
Popular Sovereignty
22. 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.
Barbed Wire
Pragmatism
Interchangeable Parts
Second Reconstruction
23. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Supply-Side Economics
Imperialism
Grandfather Clauses
24. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Indentured Servitude
Industrial Unionism
Carpetbaggers
Compact Theory
25. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
New Immigration
Black Power
Black Codes
Primogeniture
26. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Unions
Trusts
Self-Governing Colony
Primogeniture
27. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Vertical Integration
Teach-Ins
Anthracite Coal
Appeasement
28. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Royal Colony
Free Labor
Loyalty Oaths
29. 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
Tariff
Grandfather Clauses
Primogeniture
30. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Abolitionism
Socialism
Industrial Unionism
Tenant Farming
31. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Encomienda
Great Society
Unions
Secession
32. 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.
Literacy Tests
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
Nativism
33. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
Abolitionism
Urban Riots
Cowboys
34. 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
Bicameral Legislature
Margin Buying
New Frontier
Urban Riots
35. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Isolationism
Loyalty Oaths
Primogeniture
Judicial Review
36. 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
Civil Rights Movement
Assembly Line
Colonization
Headright System
37. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Blacklist
Colonization
Veto
38. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Bimetallists
Pro-Life
Direct Democracy
39. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Realist Movement
Talkies
Assembly Line
Excise Tax
40. 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.
Nationalism
Boston Tea Party
Mestizos
Court Packing Scheme
41. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Speakeasies
Imperialism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Social Gospel
42. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Direct Primary
Transcontinental Railway
Supply-Side Economics
43. 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.
Technological Unemployment
White Flight
Conflict Historiography
Weapons of Mass Destruction
44. 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
Salutary Neglect
Initiative
Court Packing Scheme
McCarthyism
45. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Unlawful Combatants
Teenagers
Imperialism
Specie Circular
46. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Industrial Unionism
Rugged Individualism
Great Society
Tenant Farming
47. 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
Assembly Line
Indentured Servitude
Delegated Powers
Urban Riots
48. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Yellow Journalism
Interchangeable Parts
Dollar Diplomacy
49. 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.
Virtual Representation
Impeachment
Telegraph
Pro-Choice
50. 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
Internal Improvements
Annexation
Veto
Margin Buying