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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Political Machines
Salutary Neglect
Nationalism
Socialism
2. 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.
Yellow Journalism
Supply-Side Economics
Artsian
Puppet Regimes
3. 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.
Patroonship
Kyoto Protocol
Escalation
Yellow Journalism
4. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Margin Buying
Containment
Contraband of War
Bailouts
5. 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.
Impeachment
Virtual Representation
Colonization
Teenagers
6. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Pro-Choice
Unlawful Combatants
Free Labor
7. 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.
Protective Tariff
Patroonship
Strict Constructionist
Pragmatism
8. The process of acquiring new territories
Annexation
Democracy
Indentured Servitude
Navigation Acts
9. 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
Compact Theory
Blue Laws
Domino Theory
Sit-Ins
10. 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.
Progressive Movement
Speculation
Royal Colony
McCarthyism
11. 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.
Doves
Literacy Tests
Homesteaders
Direct Democracy
12. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Bootleggers
Spoils System
13. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Kyoto Protocol
Blacklist
Domino Theory
Laissez-Faire
14. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Injunction
Margin Buying
Theory of Perpetual Union
15. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
New Immigration
Summit Meeting
Indentured Servitude
Alliances
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
Indentured Servitude
Pro-Choice
Barbed Wire
Two-Party System
17. The policy used by the British before the War of 1812 wherein the British stopped US vessels and removed sailors from them to be used on British naval vessels. it was also used to a limited extent by the French during this same period. It was one of
Impeachment
Impressment
Vertical Integration
Imperialism
18. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Pro-Life
Bimetallists
Yellow-dog Contract
Compassionate Conservatism
19. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Suburbia
Spoils System
Conflict Historiography
Urban Riots
20. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Scab
Domino Theory
Contraband of War
Two-Party System
21. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Barbed Wire
Conflict Historiography
Advertising
Contraband of War
22. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Direct Democracy
Anti-Communism
Sit-Down Strike
Self-Governing Colony
23. 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
Capitalism
Grandfather Clauses
Unions
24. 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
Social Mobility
Navigation Acts
Elastic Clause
Cotton Gin
25. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Blue Laws
Domino Theory
Tenant Farming
Kyoto Protocol
26. 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.
Nationalism
Primogeniture
Theocracy
Interchangeable Parts
27. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Impeachment
Teach-Ins
Bailouts
Sit-Ins
28. 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
Independent Counsel
Carpetbaggers
Vertical Integration
Temperance Movement
29. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Jim Crow
Speculation
Secession
30. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Socialism
Robber Baron
Bimetallists
Lynching
31. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Settlement House Movement
Baby Boom
Democracy
Unicameral Legislature
32. 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.
Anti-Communism
Telegraph
Progressive Movement
Imperialism
33. 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.
Bailouts
Compassionate Conservatism
Sharecropping
Telegraph
34. An element of President Truman's 1947 Federal Employees Loyalty and Security Program - which was designed to weed out communists and other "subversives" from government employment.
Protectorate
Loyalty Oaths
New Immigration
Doves
35. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Socialism
Carpetbaggers
Cabinet
Margin Buying
36. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Pragmatism
Subprime Mortgage
Advertising
Royal Colony
37. 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
War on Poverty
Social Gospel
Margin Buying
Guerrilla War
38. 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
Bimetallists
Universal Suffrage
Abolitionism
Checks and Balances
39. 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
Primogeniture
Advertising
Sit-Ins
40. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Sit-Down Strike
Tenant Farming
Talkies
Subprime Mortgage
41. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Gender Gap
Conflict Historiography
Craft Unionism
Free Blacks
42. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Court Packing Scheme
Assembly Line
Royal Colony
Transcontinental Railway
43. 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
Specie Circular
Teach-Ins
Settlement House Movement
Elastic Clause
44. 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
Black Codes
Domino Theory
New Left
Free Labor
45. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Subprime Mortgage
Virtual Representation
Unicameral Legislature
Blacklist
46. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Artsian
Loose Constructionist
Compassionate Conservatism
Judicial Review
47. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Loyalty Oaths
Speakeasies
Domino Theory
Anti-Communism
48. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Checks and Balances
Installment Plans
Abolitionism
Hawks
49. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Robber Baron
Impressment
Black Power
Doves
50. 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
Elastic Clause
Manifest Destiny
Cotton Gin
Impeachment