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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Escalation
Delegated Powers
Bailouts
Virtual Representation
2. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Supply-Side Economics
Internal Improvements
Subprime Mortgage
Protectorate
3. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Carpetbaggers
Tariff
Unlawful Combatants
Cabinet
4. 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.
Bailouts
Royal Colony
Scalawags
Spoils System
5. 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
Impeachment
Loose Constructionist
Abolitionism
Sit-Ins
6. 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.
Confederation
New Frontier
Literacy Tests
Trusts
7. 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.
War on Terror
Mercantilism
Bicameral Legislature
Free Silverites
8. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Rugged Individualism
Yellow Journalism
Bailouts
Dollar Diplomacy
9. 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.
Rock and Roll
Tenant Farming
Social Gospel
Checks and Balances
10. The political position that opposes abortion.
Impressment
Compassionate Conservatism
Planter
Pro-Life
11. 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
Kyoto Protocol
Jim Crow
Puppet Regimes
12. 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
Judicial Review
Contraband of War
Royal Colony
Advertising
13. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Pro-Choice
Separation of Powers
Jim Crow
14. 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
Judicial Review
Democracy
Guerrilla War
Vertical Integration
15. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Medicaid
Assembly Line
Temperance Movement
Realist Movement
16. 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
Technological Unemployment
Two-Party System
Teach-Ins
Robber Baron
17. 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.
Cold War
Isolationism
Summit Meeting
Installment Plans
18. 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
Robber Baron
Cotton Gin
Summit Meeting
Vietnam Revisionism
19. 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
McCarthyism
Family Values
Technological Unemployment
Loose Constructionist
20. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Barbed Wire
Jim Crow
Alliances
Pro-Life
21. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Elastic Clause
Intrastate Commerce
Mortgage-Backed Securities
War on Terror
22. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Salutary Neglect
Yellow-dog Contract
Robber Baron
Sharecropping
23. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Political Machines
Unions
Transcontinental Railway
Robber Baron
24. 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.
Second Reconstruction
Confederation
Proprietary Colony
Social Mobility
25. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Laissez-Faire
Scab
Bush Doctrine
Weapons of Mass Destruction
26. 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
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Backlash
Navigation Acts
27. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Talkies
Transcontinental Railway
Free Blacks
Pro-Choice
28. 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
Contraband of War
Injunction
Great Society
Culture Wars
29. 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.
Sharecropping
Doves
Literacy Tests
Dollar Diplomacy
30. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Anti-Communism
Yellow-dog Contract
Scalawags
Escalation
31. 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.
Socialism
Transcontinental Railway
Pragmatism
Cabinet
32. 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.
Free Blacks
Patroonship
Loose Constructionist
Yellow-dog Contract
33. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Second Wave of Feminism
Summit Meeting
Gender Gap
Headright System
34. 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
Settlement House Movement
Manifest Destiny
Bimetallists
Isolationism
35. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Advertising
Dollar Diplomacy
Craft Unionism
Short-staple Cotton
36. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Unions
Urban Riots
Secession
Second Wave of Feminism
37. Historiography is the study of how history is written. Historians in the 1950s-consensus historians-in general argued that America was the world's great democracy that only did good in the world and had no conflicts at home. Largely due to the effort
Conflict Historiography
Domino Theory
Laissez-Faire
Theocracy
38. 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.
Free Blacks
Indentured Servitude
Democracy
Stagflation
39. 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
Compact Theory
Puppet Regimes
Unions
Reserved Powers Clause
40. 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.
Summit Meeting
Scab
Trusts
New Immigration
41. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Tenant Farming
War on Terror
Loyalty Oaths
Patroonship
42. The political position advocating sending free blacks to Liberia in Africa to reduce the number of them in the country-the more blacks that were freed - the fewer there would be in America. It was seen as a way of alleviating the danger of slave insu
Great Society
Colonization
Black Power
Speculation
43. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Backlash
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Baby Boom
Separation of Powers
44. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Conflict Historiography
Joint Stock Company
Nationalism
Bicameral Legislature
45. 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
Culture of the Quarters
White Flight
Bicameral Legislature
Capitalism
46. The study of the environment.
Robber Baron
Subprime Mortgage
Ecology
Settlement House Movement
47. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Sit-Down Strike
Containment
Pragmatism
48. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Abolitionism
Mass Production
Cold War
Industrial Unionism
49. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Bootleggers
Tenant Farming
Two-Party System
Bicameral Legislature
50. 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.
Militarism
Nativism
Interchangeable Parts
Pro-Life