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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Navigation Acts
Colonization
Medicaid
Initiative
2. 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.
Protectorate
Containment
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sit-Down Strike
3. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Referendum
Urban Riots
Salutary Neglect
4. 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
Free Labor
Telegraph
Nationalism
Teenagers
5. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Protective Tariff
Temperance Movement
Poll Tax
Muckrackers
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.
Injunction
Supply-Side Economics
Protective Tariff
Literacy Tests
7. 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
Margin Buying
Conflict Historiography
Urban Riots
Nativism
8. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Great Society
Boston Tea Party
Contraband of War
9. 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.
Elastic Clause
Free Silverites
Socialism
Capitalism
10. 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.
Independent Counsel
Rock and Roll
Ratification
Capitalism
11. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Horizontal Integration
Tenant Farming
Confederation
Virtual Representation
12. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Separation of Powers
Encomienda
Summit Meeting
13. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Political Machines
Vietnam Revisionism
Urban Riots
14. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Social Mobility
White Flight
Anti-Communism
Bailouts
15. 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.
Escalation
New Immigration
Judicial Review
Loose Constructionist
16. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Headright System
War on Terror
Blacklist
17. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Subprime Mortgage
Artsian
Strict Constructionist
Indentured Servitude
18. 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.
Imperialism
Juvenile Delinquency
Free Blacks
New Immigration
19. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Annexation
Temperance Movement
Urban Riots
Boston Tea Party
20. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Social Gospel
Industrial Unionism
Suburbia
Elastic Clause
21. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Medicaid
Great Society
Blacklist
22. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
Teenagers
Strict Constructionist
Tariff
23. 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
Black Power
Transcontinental Railway
Salutary Neglect
Civil Rights Movement
24. 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
Sit-Ins
Vietnam Revisionism
Bailouts
Socialism
25. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Impeachment
Escalation
Royal Colony
Internal Improvements
26. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Baby Boom
Virtual Representation
Imperialism
27. 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.
Homesteaders
McCarthyism
Bush Doctrine
Socialism
28. 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.
Nonaggression Treaty
Primogeniture
Referendum
Unicameral Legislature
29. 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
Puppet Regimes
New Frontier
Unlawful Combatants
Consciousness-Raising Groups
30. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Robber Baron
Jim Crow
Interchangeable Parts
Hawks
31. 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
Assembly Line
Headright System
Appeasement
Temperance Movement
32. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Capitalism
Democracy
Imperialism
Supply-Side Economics
33. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Bush Doctrine
Two-Party System
Anthracite Coal
Unicameral Legislature
34. 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
Headright System
Muckrackers
Progressive Movement
Encomienda
35. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Cold War
Medicare
Jim Crow
Popular Sovereignty
36. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Muckrackers
Judicial Review
Talkies
Specie Circular
37. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Abolitionism
Rugged Individualism
Popular Sovereignty
Grandfather Clauses
38. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Manifest Destiny
Nationalism
Encomienda
Cotton Gin
39. 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
Colonization
Cotton Gin
Laissez-Faire
Patroonship
40. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Reserved Powers Clause
White Flight
Manifest Destiny
41. 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.
Temperance Movement
Excise Tax
Referendum
Technological Unemployment
42. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Self-Governing Colony
Annexation
Speakeasies
Yellow Journalism
43. 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
Guerrilla War
Capitalism
Encomienda
Conflict Historiography
44. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Industrial Unionism
Homesteaders
Scab
Artsian
45. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Isolationism
New Left
Spoils System
46. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Reserved Powers Clause
Democracy
Assembly Line
Kyoto Protocol
47. 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
Mass Production
Domino Theory
Colonization
Free Labor
48. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Social Mobility
Sit-Down Strike
Pro-Choice
Bimetallists
49. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Stagflation
Juvenile Delinquency
Universal Suffrage
War on Terror
50. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Laissez-Faire
Joint Stock Company
Protectorate
Containment
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