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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Advertising
Family Values
Bailouts
Tenant Farming
2. 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
Technological Unemployment
Injunction
Compact Theory
Planter
3. 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
War on Terror
Navigation Acts
Containment
Urban Riots
4. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
Vertical Integration
Vietnam Revisionism
Industrial Unionism
Bicameral Legislature
5. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Patroonship
Elastic Clause
Contraband of War
6. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Assembly Line
Patroonship
Impeachment
Poll Tax
7. 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
Theocracy
Teach-Ins
Yellow-dog Contract
Manifest Destiny
8. 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.
Division of Powers
Contraband of War
Compassionate Conservatism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
9. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Realist Movement
Free Labor
Second Wave of Feminism
Scab
10. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Homesteaders
Suburbia
Lynching
Universal Manhood Suffrage
11. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Domino Theory
Isolationism
Joint Stock Company
Impressment
12. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Socialism
Judicial Review
Speculation
Headright System
13. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Culture Wars
Protective Tariff
Yellow Journalism
Internal Improvements
14. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Culture of the Quarters
Pragmatism
Impeachment
Blue Laws
15. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Culture of the Quarters
Talkies
Medicaid
Political Machines
16. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Isolationism
McCarthyism
Medicare
Court Packing Scheme
17. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
McCarthyism
Speakeasies
Ethnic Cleansing
Dollar Diplomacy
18. 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
Family Values
Encomienda
Civil Rights Movement
Gender Gap
19. 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.
Juvenile Delinquency
Primogeniture
Dollar Diplomacy
Spoils System
20. 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.
Direct Primary
Compassionate Conservatism
Escalation
Mestizos
21. 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.
Protectorate
Summit Meeting
Consumer Society
Confederation
22. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
War on Terror
McCarthyism
Injunction
23. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Proprietary Colony
Mestizos
Joint Stock Company
Unicameral Legislature
24. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Anti-Communism
Protectorate
Gender Gap
25. The political position that opposes abortion.
Impeachment
Doves
Pro-Life
Independent Counsel
26. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Militarism
Laissez-Faire
Protective Tariff
Mortgage-Backed Securities
27. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Vertical Integration
Realist Movement
Temperance Movement
Primogeniture
28. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Compassionate Conservatism
Sharecropping
Scalawags
Self-Governing Colony
29. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Judicial Review
Talkies
Abolitionism
Political Machines
30. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Industrial Unionism
Political Machines
Literacy Tests
Isolationism
31. 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.
Delegated Powers
Court Packing Scheme
Speakeasies
Appeasement
32. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Sit-Ins
Nationalism
Trusts
33. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Loose Constructionist
Division of Powers
Tariff
Abolitionism
34. 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.
Margin Buying
Teenagers
Patroonship
Cowboys
35. 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.
Pro-Choice
Assembly Line
Cabinet
Confederation
36. 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
Trusts
Free Soil Position
Scab
Navigation Acts
37. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
Lynching
Free Silverites
Strict Constructionist
38. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Culture Wars
New Left
Initiative
Ratification
39. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable Parts
Culture Wars
40. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Escalation
White Flight
Ethnic Cleansing
Black Codes
41. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Boston Tea Party
Doves
Virtual Representation
42. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Capitalism
Mass Production
Contraband of War
Annexation
43. 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
Veto
Backlash
Unicameral Legislature
Technological Unemployment
44. 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.
Temperance Movement
Imperialism
Sit-Ins
Family Values
45. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Black Power
Ratification
Secession
Veto
46. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Settlement House Movement
Protective Tariff
Bimetallists
Transcontinental Railway
47. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Containment
Excise Tax
Ecology
48. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Rock and Roll
Referendum
Craft Unionism
Socialism
49. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Headright System
Bimetallists
Technological Unemployment
Protectorate
50. The study of the environment.
War on Terror
Ecology
Guerrilla War
Unicameral Legislature