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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Tenant Farming
Free Soil Position
Muckrackers
Veto
2. 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
White Flight
Independent Counsel
Nationalism
Protective Tariff
3. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Unicameral Legislature
Bootleggers
Two-Party System
Second Reconstruction
4. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
Doves
Rugged Individualism
Settlement House Movement
Free Silverites
5. 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
Elastic Clause
Confederation
Indentured Servitude
Judicial Review
6. 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.
Alliances
Civil Rights Movement
New Immigration
Rugged Individualism
7. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Baby Boom
Stagflation
Joint Stock Company
Anthracite Coal
8. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Assembly Line
Bootleggers
Self-Governing Colony
Ecology
9. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Baby Boom
Direct Primary
Subprime Mortgage
Carpetbaggers
10. 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
Socialism
Summit Meeting
Loose Constructionist
Interchangeable Parts
11. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Grandfather Clauses
Laissez-Faire
Initiative
Nationalism
12. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Speakeasies
Isolationism
Elastic Clause
Rugged Individualism
13. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
Jim Crow
Pro-Choice
Imperialism
14. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Nonaggression Treaty
Teach-Ins
Sharecropping
Protectorate
15. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Delegated Powers
Patroonship
Doves
Civil Rights Movement
16. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Secession
Blacklist
Sharecropping
Independent Counsel
17. 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.
McCarthyism
Loyalty Oaths
Navigation Acts
Anthracite Coal
18. 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.
Primogeniture
Free Silverites
Conflict Historiography
Ethnic Cleansing
19. The political position that opposes abortion.
Anthracite Coal
Pro-Life
Bimetallists
Referendum
20. 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
Speakeasies
Two-Party System
Scab
Transcontinental Railway
21. 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
Yellow Journalism
Referendum
Grandfather Clauses
Mass Production
22. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Anthracite Coal
New Immigration
Talkies
Compassionate Conservatism
23. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Escalation
New Immigration
Bicameral Legislature
Horizontal Integration
24. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Elastic Clause
Technological Unemployment
Pro-Choice
Imperialism
25. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
McCarthyism
Urban Riots
Ethnic Cleansing
Summit Meeting
26. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Isolationism
Division of Powers
Court Packing Scheme
Injunction
27. 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
Urban Riots
Second Wave of Feminism
Medicaid
Spoils System
28. 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.
Mass Production
Delegated Powers
Virtual Representation
Civil Rights Movement
29. 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
McCarthyism
Direct Democracy
Conflict Historiography
Primogeniture
30. 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
Puppet Regimes
Bimetallists
Theory of Perpetual Union
Socialism
31. 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
Capitalism
Referendum
White Flight
Tariff
32. 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
McCarthyism
Domino Theory
Compassionate Conservatism
33. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Mestizos
New Immigration
Isolationism
Patroonship
34. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Trusts
Division of Powers
Speakeasies
35. 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
Talkies
Democracy
Compact Theory
Impressment
36. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Dollar Diplomacy
Mercantilism
Blue Laws
Consciousness-Raising Groups
37. 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.
Capitalism
Mestizos
Sit-Down Strike
War on Terror
38. 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.
Teach-Ins
Appeasement
New Left
Subprime Mortgage
39. The British policy of the 17th century in which the British were lax in the enforcement of laws in the colonies - thereby allowing the colonies to develop without much interference from the British government. After the French and Indian War - this p
Abolitionism
Salutary Neglect
Virtual Representation
Delegated Powers
40. 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.
Transcontinental Railway
Imperialism
Nonaggression Treaty
Sharecropping
41. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Spoils System
Second Reconstruction
Installment Plans
White Flight
42. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Sit-Ins
Sit-Down Strike
Pro-Choice
Doves
43. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Bailouts
Temperance Movement
Boston Tea Party
Gender Gap
44. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Secession
Sharecropping
Urban Riots
Civil Rights Movement
45. 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
Escalation
Referendum
Confederation
Backlash
46. 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
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Domino Theory
Installment Plans
Cold War
47. 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
Jim Crow
Independent Counsel
Urban Riots
Consumer Society
48. 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.
Protective Tariff
Summit Meeting
Settlement House Movement
Yellow Journalism
49. 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.
Proprietary Colony
Laissez-Faire
Interchangeable Parts
Abolitionism
50. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Nonaggression Treaty
Unlawful Combatants
Stagflation
Great Society
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