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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Gender Gap
Ethnic Cleansing
Universal Suffrage
Appeasement
2. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Nonaggression Treaty
Culture Wars
Interstate Commerce
Cold War
3. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Pragmatism
Loose Constructionist
Appeasement
4. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Scab
White Flight
Initiative
McCarthyism
5. 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
Black Power
Strict Constructionist
Speakeasies
6. 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
Progressive Movement
Suburbia
Homesteaders
Popular Sovereignty
7. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Advertising
Socialism
Laissez-Faire
Alliances
8. 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
Grandfather Clauses
Delegated Powers
Family Values
Initiative
9. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Encomienda
Judicial Review
Cabinet
Self-Governing Colony
10. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Realist Movement
Imperialism
Tariff
11. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Assembly Line
Nonaggression Treaty
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Teenagers
12. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Manifest Destiny
Vietnam Revisionism
Culture of the Quarters
Realist Movement
13. 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.
Trusts
Loyalty Oaths
Protectorate
Settlement House Movement
14. A person who believes in the broad interpretation of the US Constitution; that is - that the Constitution does not have to be interpreted word by word. Alexander Hamilton supported this idea.
Unions
Second Wave of Feminism
Loose Constructionist
Navigation Acts
15. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Medicare
Nonaggression Treaty
Separation of Powers
Independent Counsel
16. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Pro-Choice
Culture of the Quarters
War on Poverty
Cold War
17. 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.
Installment Plans
Mass Production
Domino Theory
Impeachment
18. 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
Appeasement
Yellow Journalism
Judicial Review
Court Packing Scheme
19. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Boston Tea Party
Kyoto Protocol
Gender Gap
20. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations with an aim toward increasing its power and controlling those nations. This was a cause of WWI.
Civil Rights Movement
Bailouts
Imperialism
Homesteaders
21. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Self-Governing Colony
Lynching
Literacy Tests
Court Packing Scheme
22. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Political Machines
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Teach-Ins
Isolationism
23. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Bicameral Legislature
Annexation
Craft Unionism
Trusts
24. 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
Jim Crow
Veto
Colonization
Black Power
25. 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
Anthracite Coal
Domino Theory
Colonization
Black Power
26. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Unlawful Combatants
Rock and Roll
Industrial Unionism
27. The series of laws designed to create separation between the races. These were by and large Southern state laws made constitutional by the Supreme Court decision Plessy. v Ferguson in 1896.
Literacy Tests
Democracy
Jim Crow
Bimetallists
28. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Containment
Socialism
Appeasement
Pragmatism
29. 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.
Mass Production
Escalation
Court Packing Scheme
Dollar Diplomacy
30. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Ethnic Cleansing
Internal Improvements
Court Packing Scheme
Stagflation
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
Specie Circular
Assembly Line
Hawks
Isolationism
32. 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
Margin Buying
Tenant Farming
Secession
33. 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
Interstate Commerce
Sit-Ins
Consumer Society
Rugged Individualism
34. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Delegated Powers
Literacy Tests
Cotton Gin
Elastic Clause
35. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Theocracy
Royal Colony
Short-staple Cotton
Horizontal Integration
36. The series of laws designed to create separation between the races. These were by and large Southern state laws made constitutional by the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
Transcontinental Railway
Jim Crow
Loose Constructionist
Interstate Commerce
37. 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
Pro-Choice
Impeachment
Scab
Conflict Historiography
38. 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
White Flight
War on Terror
Popular Sovereignty
Headright System
39. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Homesteaders
Scab
Carpetbaggers
Mortgage-Backed Securities
40. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Doves
Mestizos
Realist Movement
41. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
White Flight
New Frontier
Isolationism
Universal Suffrage
42. 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
Medicaid
Margin Buying
War on Poverty
Socialism
43. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Progressive Movement
Checks and Balances
Patroonship
44. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Internal Improvements
Boston Tea Party
Initiative
Primogeniture
45. 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
Great Society
Impeachment
Free Labor
Domino Theory
46. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Subprime Mortgage
White Flight
Free Soil Position
47. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Tariff
Speculation
Poll Tax
Escalation
48. 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.
Protective Tariff
Technological Unemployment
Teenagers
Yellow Journalism
49. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Sharecropping
Barbed Wire
Injunction
Escalation
50. 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.
Containment
Blue Laws
Guerrilla War
Strict Constructionist