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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Consumer Society
Abolitionism
Ecology
Delegated Powers
2. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called separation of powers.
Two-Party System
Theocracy
Checks and Balances
Interchangeable Parts
3. 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.
Settlement House Movement
Bush Doctrine
Sit-Down Strike
Medicare
4. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Kyoto Protocol
Domino Theory
Bicameral Legislature
Two-Party System
5. 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.
Free Silverites
Tariff
Doves
Social Mobility
6. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Laissez-Faire
Planter
Speakeasies
Yellow Journalism
7. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Kyoto Protocol
Planter
Bailouts
8. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Isolationism
Royal Colony
Muckrackers
Kyoto Protocol
9. The process of acquiring new territories
Second Wave of Feminism
War on Terror
Annexation
Suburbia
10. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Reserved Powers Clause
Ecology
Two-Party System
Horizontal Integration
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.
Literacy Tests
Socialism
Advertising
Navigation Acts
12. 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
Cowboys
Compact Theory
Supply-Side Economics
Hawks
13. 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.
Social Mobility
Vietnam Revisionism
Subprime Mortgage
Compassionate Conservatism
14. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Subprime Mortgage
Indentured Servitude
Escalation
15. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
New Immigration
Nativism
Initiative
Specie Circular
16. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Urban Riots
Carpetbaggers
Sit-Ins
Unicameral Legislature
17. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Isolationism
Direct Democracy
Containment
Dollar Diplomacy
18. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
Grandfather Clauses
White Flight
Unions
19. 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
Bootleggers
Horizontal Integration
Trusts
Capitalism
20. 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
New Left
Lynching
Mass Production
Medicaid
21. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Sharecropping
Specie Circular
Consumer Society
Scalawags
22. 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.
Teach-Ins
White Flight
Navigation Acts
Transcontinental Railway
23. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Scalawags
Bush Doctrine
Civil Rights Movement
Guerrilla War
24. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Mestizos
Alliances
Tariff
Annexation
25. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Social Gospel
Impeachment
Speakeasies
Assembly Line
26. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Patroonship
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Ethnic Cleansing
Ratification
27. 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.
Consumer Society
Civil Rights Movement
Theory of Perpetual Union
Mestizos
28. 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
Homesteaders
Headright System
Speculation
29. 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.
Blacklist
Bootleggers
Vertical Integration
Unlawful Combatants
30. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Sit-Down Strike
Isolationism
Barbed Wire
Teach-Ins
31. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Short-staple Cotton
Juvenile Delinquency
Lynching
Compassionate Conservatism
32. 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.
Universal Suffrage
Speculation
Protectorate
Yellow-dog Contract
33. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Free Soil Position
Yellow Journalism
Interstate Commerce
Theocracy
34. 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
Encomienda
Direct Primary
Cold War
Separation of Powers
35. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Settlement House Movement
McCarthyism
Contraband of War
36. 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
Anthracite Coal
Doves
Speakeasies
Two-Party System
37. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Bailouts
Guerrilla War
Blacklist
38. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in
Sit-Ins
Salutary Neglect
Bailouts
Domino Theory
39. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Realist Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Hawks
Socialism
40. 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.
Imperialism
Political Machines
Domino Theory
Spoils System
41. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Cabinet
Homesteaders
Bailouts
Initiative
42. 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
Excise Tax
Assembly Line
Interchangeable Parts
Independent Counsel
43. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Theocracy
Planter
War on Poverty
Gender Gap
44. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called checks and balances.
Direct Primary
Separation of Powers
Loose Constructionist
Conflict Historiography
45. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Universal Suffrage
New Frontier
Culture of the Quarters
Sharecropping
46. 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
McCarthyism
Teach-Ins
Sharecropping
Free Soil Position
47. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Judicial Review
Division of Powers
Elastic Clause
48. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Lynching
Second Wave of Feminism
Alliances
Baby Boom
49. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Speculation
Imperialism
Bicameral Legislature
50. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it
Planter
Virtual Representation
Craft Unionism
Guerrilla War
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