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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Nationalism
Veto
Colonization
2. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Indentured Servitude
Free Soil Position
Protective Tariff
Muckrackers
3. A company that developed in the early 1600s in England wherein a group of investors pooled their money to finance exploration of the new World. The investor would receive a portion of the profits resulting from the exploration of the New World based
Joint Stock Company
Urban Riots
Yellow Journalism
Gender Gap
4. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Blacklist
Ratification
Checks and Balances
Specie Circular
5. 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.
Speculation
Sit-Ins
Primogeniture
Short-staple Cotton
6. 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.
White Flight
Escalation
War on Poverty
Interstate Commerce
7. 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
Referendum
Bicameral Legislature
Bootleggers
Contraband of War
8. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe
Checks and Balances
Nationalism
Barbed Wire
Cowboys
9. 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.
Blacklist
Realist Movement
Checks and Balances
Militarism
10. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Alliances
Lynching
Culture Wars
11. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Manifest Destiny
Impeachment
Juvenile Delinquency
Containment
12. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Black Power
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Rugged Individualism
13. 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
Culture of the Quarters
Backlash
Talkies
Trusts
14. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Alliances
Direct Democracy
Tariff
Advertising
15. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Veto
Colonization
Interstate Commerce
Social Gospel
16. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Intrastate Commerce
Independent Counsel
Virtual Representation
Alliances
17. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Baby Boom
Direct Primary
Speculation
Teach-Ins
18. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Barbed Wire
Secession
Specie Circular
Appeasement
19. 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
Militarism
Civil Rights Movement
McCarthyism
20. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Baby Boom
Cotton Gin
Yellow-dog Contract
Confederation
21. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Teach-Ins
Initiative
Protective Tariff
Culture Wars
22. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Popular Sovereignty
Homesteaders
Ethnic Cleansing
Intrastate Commerce
23. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Nationalism
Rock and Roll
Social Mobility
Bootleggers
24. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Bootleggers
Yellow Journalism
Teach-Ins
Trusts
25. 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
Margin Buying
Doves
Lynching
Baby Boom
26. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Supply-Side Economics
Anthracite Coal
Vietnam Revisionism
Bimetallists
27. 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.
White Flight
Headright System
Cotton Gin
Alliances
28. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Teenagers
New Immigration
Progressive Movement
Planter
29. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Culture of the Quarters
Delegated Powers
Poll Tax
Robber Baron
30. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Lynching
Carpetbaggers
Referendum
Supply-Side Economics
31. 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.
Settlement House Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Supply-Side Economics
Technological Unemployment
32. 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
Free Labor
Ethnic Cleansing
Unlawful Combatants
Salutary Neglect
33. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Militarism
New Frontier
White Flight
Medicaid
34. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Domino Theory
Contraband of War
Yellow-dog Contract
Homesteaders
35. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Doves
Culture of the Quarters
Jim Crow
Popular Sovereignty
36. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Interstate Commerce
Navigation Acts
Speakeasies
37. 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.
Mass Production
Progressive Movement
Bootleggers
Salutary Neglect
38. 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.
Teach-Ins
Separation of Powers
Socialism
Teenagers
39. The process of acquiring new territories
Containment
Loyalty Oaths
Annexation
Judicial Review
40. 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
Colonization
War on Terror
Weapons of Mass Destruction
41. 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
Vietnam Revisionism
Blacklist
Mass Production
Assembly Line
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
Independent Counsel
Realist Movement
Militarism
Guerrilla War
43. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Veto
Scab
Blacklist
Consumer Society
44. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Compact Theory
Manifest Destiny
Bush Doctrine
Barbed Wire
45. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Cold War
Isolationism
Black Power
Checks and Balances
46. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Homesteaders
Rock and Roll
Capitalism
47. 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.
Protective Tariff
Appeasement
Subprime Mortgage
Bush Doctrine
48. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Assembly Line
Socialism
Kyoto Protocol
49. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Speakeasies
Self-Governing Colony
Interchangeable Parts
Social Mobility
50. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Black Codes
Supply-Side Economics
Yellow Journalism
Medicare