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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Pro-Choice
Free Labor
Headright System
Referendum
2. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Backlash
Carpetbaggers
White Flight
Loyalty Oaths
3. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Direct Democracy
Loyalty Oaths
Baby Boom
Stagflation
4. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Encomienda
Reserved Powers Clause
Theocracy
5. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Veto
Muckrackers
Dollar Diplomacy
Indentured Servitude
6. 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.
Separation of Powers
Technological Unemployment
Gender Gap
Assembly Line
7. 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.
Rugged Individualism
Cold War
Culture Wars
Vertical Integration
8. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Industrial Unionism
Mercantilism
Interstate Commerce
Specie Circular
9. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Urban Riots
Referendum
Protectorate
Kyoto Protocol
10. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Veto
Anti-Communism
Pro-Life
Cotton Gin
11. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Backlash
Stagflation
Boston Tea Party
Carpetbaggers
12. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Reserved Powers Clause
Primogeniture
Nationalism
13. 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.
Assembly Line
Black Codes
Unicameral Legislature
Telegraph
14. 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.
Nonaggression Treaty
Spoils System
Strict Constructionist
Culture of the Quarters
15. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Unicameral Legislature
Assembly Line
Bicameral Legislature
16. 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
Urban Riots
Grandfather Clauses
Political Machines
Unlawful Combatants
17. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Popular Sovereignty
Protective Tariff
Great Society
Ratification
18. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Progressive Movement
Court Packing Scheme
Democracy
19. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations with an aim toward increasing its power and controlling those nations. This was a cause of WWI.
Vietnam Revisionism
Imperialism
Rock and Roll
Second Reconstruction
20. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nativism
Impressment
Nonaggression Treaty
Free Silverites
21. 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.
Poll Tax
Yellow Journalism
Anthracite Coal
Free Blacks
22. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Poll Tax
Blue Laws
Headright System
Bailouts
23. 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
Royal Colony
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Socialism
New Left
24. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
War on Poverty
White Flight
Cowboys
Interchangeable Parts
25. 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.
Blacklist
White Flight
Supply-Side Economics
Literacy Tests
26. 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.
Free Blacks
Appeasement
Specie Circular
McCarthyism
27. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Urban Riots
Free Silverites
Reserved Powers Clause
Intrastate Commerce
28. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Summit Meeting
Assembly Line
Consumer Society
Urban Riots
29. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Puppet Regimes
Initiative
Urban Riots
Division of Powers
30. 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
Isolationism
Margin Buying
Pro-Life
Direct Primary
31. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Colonization
Boston Tea Party
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Alliances
32. 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
Impeachment
Second Wave of Feminism
Free Silverites
Protective Tariff
33. 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
Domino Theory
Margin Buying
Vietnam Revisionism
Militarism
34. The study of the environment.
Unlawful Combatants
Ecology
Primogeniture
Temperance Movement
35. The political position that opposes abortion.
Pro-Life
Compassionate Conservatism
Universal Suffrage
Salutary Neglect
36. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Medicaid
Unlawful Combatants
Assembly Line
Isolationism
37. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Injunction
Talkies
Cotton Gin
Tariff
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
Bicameral Legislature
Compact Theory
Artsian
Confederation
39. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
Isolationism
Gender Gap
War on Poverty
Free Soil Position
40. 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
Industrial Unionism
Talkies
Telegraph
Two-Party System
41. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Subprime Mortgage
Ecology
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Universal Manhood Suffrage
42. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Yellow-dog Contract
Spoils System
White Flight
43. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Backlash
Ecology
Headright System
44. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Impeachment
Patroonship
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Supply-Side Economics
45. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Jim Crow
Abolitionism
Salutary Neglect
46. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
White Flight
Hawks
Supply-Side Economics
47. 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
Guerrilla War
Bush Doctrine
Isolationism
Interchangeable Parts
48. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Trusts
Manifest Destiny
Isolationism
49. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Juvenile Delinquency
Black Codes
Summit Meeting
Universal Manhood Suffrage
50. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Vietnam Revisionism
Baby Boom
Escalation
Cowboys