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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Agricultural labor system in the South following the era of slavery wherein a sharecropper could farm a piece of land in return for giving the landowner a share - usually half - of the crop.
Blue Laws
Sharecropping
Political Machines
Protective Tariff
2. 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.
Imperialism
Colonization
Settlement House Movement
Nationalism
3. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Joint Stock Company
Tenant Farming
Appeasement
Culture Wars
4. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Manifest Destiny
Headright System
Dollar Diplomacy
Medicare
5. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Planter
Tariff
Backlash
Blacklist
6. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Industrial Unionism
Assembly Line
Trusts
Juvenile Delinquency
7. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Free Soil Position
Internal Improvements
Second Reconstruction
Indentured Servitude
8. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Jim Crow
Blacklist
Salutary Neglect
9. 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.
Headright System
Spoils System
White Flight
Mass Production
10. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Strict Constructionist
Black Power
Sit-Ins
Nonaggression Treaty
11. 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.
Socialism
Patroonship
Subprime Mortgage
Militarism
12. 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.
Jim Crow
Horizontal Integration
Patroonship
Social Mobility
13. 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
Planter
Imperialism
Supply-Side Economics
Margin Buying
14. The process of acquiring new territories
Robber Baron
Suburbia
Annexation
Free Silverites
15. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Elastic Clause
Subprime Mortgage
Muckrackers
Reserved Powers Clause
16. 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.
Vertical Integration
Nativism
Pro-Life
Separation of Powers
17. 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
Compact Theory
Judicial Review
Independent Counsel
Militarism
18. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Joint Stock Company
Pro-Choice
Social Gospel
Bailouts
19. 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
Imperialism
Joint Stock Company
Trusts
Protective Tariff
20. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Free Blacks
Ratification
Bootleggers
Separation of Powers
21. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Veto
Isolationism
Black Power
Delegated Powers
22. 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.
Nationalism
New Immigration
Baby Boom
Spoils System
23. 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.
Direct Democracy
Escalation
Yellow-dog Contract
White Flight
24. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Literacy Tests
Backlash
Speakeasies
Specie Circular
25. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Conflict Historiography
Speakeasies
Cabinet
Delegated Powers
26. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Trusts
White Flight
Separation of Powers
Blue Laws
27. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Social Gospel
Horizontal Integration
Tariff
Hawks
28. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Secession
Culture of the Quarters
Patroonship
Tenant Farming
29. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Escalation
Craft Unionism
Democracy
Yellow-dog Contract
30. 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.
Backlash
Theory of Perpetual Union
Virtual Representation
Puppet Regimes
31. 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.
Navigation Acts
Hawks
Mass Production
Teach-Ins
32. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Suffrage
Separation of Powers
Anthracite Coal
Protectorate
33. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Protectorate
Cotton Gin
Scab
Social Mobility
34. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Installment Plans
Isolationism
Second Wave of Feminism
35. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Grandfather Clauses
Poll Tax
Social Gospel
36. 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.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Court Packing Scheme
Containment
Primogeniture
37. 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
Gender Gap
Bimetallists
Referendum
Grandfather Clauses
38. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Ratification
Headright System
Unicameral Legislature
39. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Hawks
Nonaggression Treaty
Consciousness-Raising Groups
New Frontier
40. 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
Two-Party System
Impeachment
Jim Crow
Culture of the Quarters
41. 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
Domino Theory
Sharecropping
Protective Tariff
42. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Bush Doctrine
Ethnic Cleansing
Laissez-Faire
Settlement House Movement
43. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Speakeasies
Trusts
Teach-Ins
Suburbia
44. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Domino Theory
Rock and Roll
Margin Buying
45. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
Imperialism
Social Mobility
Vertical Integration
46. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Teenagers
Tenant Farming
Carpetbaggers
Socialism
47. 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.
Homesteaders
Spoils System
Delegated Powers
Social Gospel
48. 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.
Cabinet
Rock and Roll
Strict Constructionist
Unions
49. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Poll Tax
White Flight
Advertising
Tenant Farming
50. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Second Reconstruction
Installment Plans
Short-staple Cotton
Sit-Down Strike