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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Veto
Literacy Tests
Planter
Yellow-dog Contract
2. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Cold War
Conflict Historiography
White Flight
Speakeasies
3. 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.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Containment
Cold War
Free Silverites
4. Blacks who had been freed from slavery or were not born slaves. They lived in the cities and countryside in both the North and the South. In 1860 - there were about 500 -000 free blacks evenly distributed between the North and the South.
Free Blacks
Advertising
Dollar Diplomacy
Laissez-Faire
5. 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
Progressive Movement
Internal Improvements
Medicaid
6. 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
Salutary Neglect
Reserved Powers Clause
Ratification
Imperialism
7. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
Muckrackers
White Flight
Talkies
War on Terror
8. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Family Values
Royal Colony
Great Society
Unions
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.
Navigation Acts
Headright System
Self-Governing Colony
Referendum
10. 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
Horizontal Integration
Suburbia
Initiative
Rugged Individualism
11. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Planter
Dollar Diplomacy
Baby Boom
Manifest Destiny
12. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Guerrilla War
Carpetbaggers
Robber Baron
Manifest Destiny
13. 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.
Division of Powers
Strict Constructionist
Containment
Horizontal Integration
14. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Delegated Powers
Theocracy
Homesteaders
Black Power
15. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Theocracy
Subprime Mortgage
Referendum
Jim Crow
16. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Second Wave of Feminism
Backlash
Loyalty Oaths
17. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.
Imperialism
Intrastate Commerce
Vietnam Revisionism
Vertical Integration
18. 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.
Cabinet
Imperialism
Two-Party System
Virtual Representation
19. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Direct Democracy
Confederation
Carpetbaggers
Bimetallists
20. 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.
Alliances
Loyalty Oaths
Vertical Integration
Delegated Powers
21. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Trusts
Free Blacks
Loyalty Oaths
Secession
22. 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
Urban Riots
Anthracite Coal
Cowboys
Socialism
23. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Division of Powers
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Two-Party System
24. 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
Assembly Line
Universal Suffrage
Pragmatism
Suburbia
25. 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
Headright System
Spoils System
Alliances
Stagflation
26. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Political Machines
Appeasement
Tariff
27. 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
Black Power
Second Wave of Feminism
Protectorate
Guerrilla War
28. 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
Free Blacks
Black Power
Escalation
29. The process of acquiring new territories
Muckrackers
Planter
Annexation
Teenagers
30. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Gender Gap
Confederation
Civil Rights Movement
31. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
New Left
Impeachment
Scab
McCarthyism
32. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Juvenile Delinquency
Bush Doctrine
Speculation
Imperialism
33. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Free Labor
Bicameral Legislature
Temperance Movement
Subprime Mortgage
34. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Domino Theory
Progressive Movement
Temperance Movement
Annexation
35. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Unlawful Combatants
Social Mobility
Jim Crow
Black Power
36. 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
Compact Theory
Social Mobility
Separation of Powers
Free Blacks
37. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Political Machines
Domino Theory
Yellow Journalism
New Frontier
38. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Dollar Diplomacy
Bimetallists
Rock and Roll
Protectorate
39. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Loose Constructionist
Hawks
Teenagers
Temperance Movement
40. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Direct Primary
Anthracite Coal
Speakeasies
Rugged Individualism
41. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Anti-Communism
Cotton Gin
Protectorate
Unions
42. 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.
Sharecropping
Universal Suffrage
Grandfather Clauses
Mortgage-Backed Securities
43. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Baby Boom
Socialism
Craft Unionism
44. 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
Muckrackers
Court Packing Scheme
Domino Theory
Jim Crow
45. 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
Excise Tax
Vertical Integration
Checks and Balances
46. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Compact Theory
Democracy
Pro-Choice
Suburbia
47. 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
Talkies
Assembly Line
Colonization
Teenagers
48. 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
McCarthyism
Culture of the Quarters
Ecology
Joint Stock Company
49. 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.
Proprietary Colony
Suburbia
Imperialism
Juvenile Delinquency
50. 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
Blacklist
Social Gospel
Free Soil Position
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