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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Protectorate
Cold War
Free Labor
Black Power
2. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Ratification
Second Wave of Feminism
Dollar Diplomacy
3. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Subprime Mortgage
Impeachment
Kyoto Protocol
4. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Indentured Servitude
Bush Doctrine
Protective Tariff
5. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Margin Buying
Sharecropping
Containment
Hawks
6. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Theocracy
Cabinet
Homesteaders
Robber Baron
7. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Isolationism
Technological Unemployment
Direct Primary
Ratification
8. 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.
Alliances
Delegated Powers
Nationalism
Artsian
9. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Speakeasies
Free Labor
New Immigration
Virtual Representation
10. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Sharecropping
Militarism
War on Poverty
Technological Unemployment
11. 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
Pro-Choice
Talkies
Culture of the Quarters
Yellow-dog Contract
12. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Intrastate Commerce
Indentured Servitude
Political Machines
Second Reconstruction
13. 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.
Ecology
Proprietary Colony
Speculation
Manifest Destiny
14. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Assembly Line
Cowboys
Tenant Farming
Social Gospel
15. 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.
Abolitionism
Short-staple Cotton
Ratification
Pro-Life
16. 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.
Abolitionism
Proprietary Colony
Strict Constructionist
Annexation
17. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Initiative
Cabinet
Second Reconstruction
Strict Constructionist
18. 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
Protective Tariff
Patroonship
Domino Theory
Robber Baron
19. 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
Specie Circular
Ecology
Homesteaders
Grandfather Clauses
20. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Barbed Wire
Protective Tariff
War on Terror
21. 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
Specie Circular
Compassionate Conservatism
Pro-Life
Backlash
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.
Initiative
Blacklist
Puppet Regimes
Internal Improvements
23. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Blue Laws
Ecology
Barbed Wire
Strict Constructionist
24. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Containment
Summit Meeting
Medicare
Ratification
25. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Independent Counsel
Encomienda
Free Blacks
26. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Self-Governing Colony
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Mass Production
Horizontal Integration
27. 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.
Nativism
Loyalty Oaths
White Flight
Craft Unionism
28. 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.
Political Machines
War on Terror
Assembly Line
Suburbia
29. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Direct Primary
Yellow Journalism
Joint Stock Company
30. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Intrastate Commerce
Anti-Communism
Protective Tariff
Mestizos
31. 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
Civil Rights Movement
Assembly Line
Culture Wars
Artsian
32. 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
Political Machines
Guerrilla War
Medicaid
Secession
33. 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
Bicameral Legislature
Impressment
Intrastate Commerce
Independent Counsel
34. 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
Bootleggers
New Left
Containment
Dollar Diplomacy
35. 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.
Anti-Communism
Laissez-Faire
Militarism
Suburbia
36. 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
Escalation
Joint Stock Company
Nativism
Capitalism
37. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
White Flight
Speakeasies
Pragmatism
Protectorate
38. 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
Pro-Life
Impressment
Compact Theory
Impeachment
39. 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
Boston Tea Party
New Immigration
Salutary Neglect
40. 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
Mestizos
Loyalty Oaths
Theory of Perpetual Union
Mortgage-Backed Securities
41. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Doves
Industrial Unionism
Ethnic Cleansing
Robber Baron
42. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Pro-Choice
New Immigration
Pragmatism
43. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Direct Primary
Muckrackers
Excise Tax
Annexation
44. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Speakeasies
Social Gospel
Indentured Servitude
Blue Laws
45. 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.
Cowboys
Literacy Tests
Loose Constructionist
Cotton Gin
46. 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
Temperance Movement
Poll Tax
Compact Theory
Popular Sovereignty
47. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Speakeasies
Imperialism
Mass Production
Direct Primary
48. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Compassionate Conservatism
Separation of Powers
Cold War
Talkies
49. 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
Realist Movement
Poll Tax
Joint Stock Company
50. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Consumer Society
Referendum
Universal Suffrage
Planter
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