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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Blacklist
Injunction
Cotton Gin
2. 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
Domino Theory
Tariff
Doves
Royal Colony
3. 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.
Free Labor
Poll Tax
Culture Wars
Sharecropping
4. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Domino Theory
Talkies
Literacy Tests
Militarism
5. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Excise Tax
Capitalism
Vietnam Revisionism
Civil Rights Movement
6. 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.
Lynching
Jim Crow
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Virtual Representation
7. 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.
Socialism
Intrastate Commerce
Speakeasies
Boston Tea Party
8. 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
Scalawags
Great Society
Civil Rights Movement
Guerrilla War
9. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
Rugged Individualism
Elastic Clause
Blacklist
Mercantilism
10. 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.
Speculation
Mercantilism
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Talkies
11. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Nativism
Nationalism
Colonization
12. 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
Militarism
Social Gospel
Impeachment
13. 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
Imperialism
Contraband of War
Cotton Gin
Alliances
14. 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.
Anthracite Coal
Direct Democracy
Democracy
Loyalty Oaths
15. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Salutary Neglect
Supply-Side Economics
Isolationism
Specie Circular
16. 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
Black Codes
Civil Rights Movement
Referendum
Family Values
17. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
McCarthyism
Nonaggression Treaty
Unicameral Legislature
Domino Theory
18. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Hawks
Sit-Down Strike
Unicameral Legislature
Mestizos
19. 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.
Compact Theory
Alliances
Lynching
Veto
20. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Bootleggers
Mestizos
Speculation
Internal Improvements
21. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Militarism
Patroonship
Blue Laws
Stagflation
22. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Nonaggression Treaty
Independent Counsel
Baby Boom
Elastic Clause
23. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
New Left
Stagflation
Medicare
Alliances
24. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Civil Rights Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Socialism
Anti-Communism
25. 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
Great Society
Independent Counsel
Mercantilism
Referendum
26. 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
Domino Theory
Confederation
Primogeniture
Speakeasies
27. 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.
Patroonship
Containment
Literacy Tests
Mass Production
28. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Free Blacks
Craft Unionism
Scalawags
Dollar Diplomacy
29. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Separation of Powers
Abolitionism
Direct Primary
Second Reconstruction
30. 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.
Royal Colony
Muckrackers
Annexation
New Immigration
31. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Blue Laws
Pragmatism
Direct Democracy
32. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Teach-Ins
Court Packing Scheme
Navigation Acts
Anthracite Coal
33. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Headright System
Craft Unionism
Trusts
34. The study of the environment.
Culture Wars
Reserved Powers Clause
Indentured Servitude
Ecology
35. 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.
Cold War
Isolationism
Grandfather Clauses
Two-Party System
36. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Royal Colony
Medicaid
Sharecropping
Technological Unemployment
37. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Tenant Farming
Jim Crow
Unions
Consumer Society
38. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Second Reconstruction
Speakeasies
Assembly Line
Summit Meeting
39. 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
Homesteaders
Salutary Neglect
Theocracy
Cowboys
40. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Joint Stock Company
Nativism
Laissez-Faire
Bimetallists
41. 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
Margin Buying
Colonization
Yellow-dog Contract
Telegraph
42. 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
Encomienda
Political Machines
Cotton Gin
Black Codes
43. 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
Elastic Clause
Bailouts
Consumer Society
Contraband of War
44. 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
Containment
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Urban Riots
Injunction
45. 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.
Ecology
Teenagers
Planter
Assembly Line
46. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Unions
Free Silverites
Pragmatism
Confederation
47. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Democracy
Summit Meeting
Yellow Journalism
Proprietary Colony
48. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Loose Constructionist
Bimetallists
Cotton Gin
Royal Colony
49. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Primogeniture
New Frontier
Dollar Diplomacy
Conflict Historiography
50. 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
Ratification
Mass Production
Backlash
New Left
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