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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Independent Counsel
Pro-Life
Hawks
Anthracite Coal
2. 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.
Checks and Balances
Delegated Powers
Sit-Down Strike
Mestizos
3. 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.
Unions
Loose Constructionist
Supply-Side Economics
Colonization
4. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Encomienda
Isolationism
Rock and Roll
Bimetallists
5. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Theocracy
Scalawags
Universal Suffrage
6. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Patroonship
Doves
Pragmatism
Blacklist
7. 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.
New Immigration
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Division of Powers
Puppet Regimes
8. The process of acquiring new territories
Theory of Perpetual Union
Free Labor
Excise Tax
Annexation
9. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N
Boston Tea Party
Mass Production
Guerrilla War
Nativism
10. 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
Political Machines
Isolationism
Bailouts
Colonization
11. 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
Salutary Neglect
Scab
New Frontier
Unlawful Combatants
12. 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.
Doves
Strict Constructionist
Stagflation
Unlawful Combatants
13. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Suburbia
Direct Democracy
Sit-Ins
Bicameral Legislature
14. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Confederation
Direct Democracy
Direct Primary
Universal Manhood Suffrage
15. 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
Capitalism
Stagflation
Dollar Diplomacy
Protectorate
16. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Direct Democracy
Strict Constructionist
Two-Party System
Planter
17. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Judicial Review
Socialism
Tenant Farming
Popular Sovereignty
18. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Progressive Movement
Guerrilla War
Scalawags
Talkies
19. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Navigation Acts
Great Society
Impeachment
20. 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.
Delegated Powers
Rugged Individualism
Jim Crow
Installment Plans
21. 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.
Appeasement
Initiative
Proprietary Colony
Poll Tax
22. 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
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Blue Laws
Imperialism
Free Labor
23. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Joint Stock Company
Sit-Down Strike
Excise Tax
Free Soil Position
24. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Popular Sovereignty
Ecology
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Socialism
25. 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
Political Machines
Alliances
Assembly Line
Intrastate Commerce
26. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
New Immigration
Speakeasies
Juvenile Delinquency
War on Poverty
27. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Boston Tea Party
Navigation Acts
Compassionate Conservatism
Democracy
28. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Juvenile Delinquency
Domino Theory
Laissez-Faire
Compact Theory
29. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Bush Doctrine
Judicial Review
Baby Boom
Cowboys
30. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Scab
Isolationism
Judicial Review
31. 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
Headright System
New Frontier
Elastic Clause
Bimetallists
32. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Jim Crow
Bailouts
Initiative
Installment Plans
33. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Social Gospel
Barbed Wire
Assembly Line
Blue Laws
34. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
White Flight
Craft Unionism
Carpetbaggers
35. 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
Primogeniture
Internal Improvements
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Rock and Roll
36. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Free Soil Position
Hawks
Dollar Diplomacy
37. 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
Robber Baron
Ethnic Cleansing
Tariff
Independent Counsel
38. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Laissez-Faire
Veto
Ethnic Cleansing
Settlement House Movement
39. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Protective Tariff
Carpetbaggers
Talkies
Isolationism
40. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Family Values
White Flight
Advertising
Black Codes
41. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Rock and Roll
Ethnic Cleansing
Interstate Commerce
Social Mobility
42. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Baby Boom
Manifest Destiny
Encomienda
43. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Temperance Movement
Ratification
Excise Tax
Internal Improvements
44. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Yellow Journalism
Contraband of War
Second Wave of Feminism
45. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Imperialism
Proprietary Colony
Homesteaders
Annexation
46. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Delegated Powers
White Flight
Escalation
Isolationism
47. 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.
Interchangeable Parts
Bailouts
Suburbia
Progressive Movement
48. 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
Temperance Movement
Abolitionism
Ratification
Subprime Mortgage
49. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Technological Unemployment
Craft Unionism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
New Frontier
50. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe
Universal Suffrage
Loyalty Oaths
Domino Theory
Nationalism
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