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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Delegated Powers
Craft Unionism
Barbed Wire
2. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Great Society
Theocracy
Colonization
3. 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
Baby Boom
Culture Wars
Pragmatism
Free Soil Position
4. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Scalawags
Great Society
Vertical Integration
Puppet Regimes
5. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Robber Baron
Cowboys
Sit-Ins
Artsian
6. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Impeachment
Weapons of Mass Destruction
War on Poverty
Scab
7. 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
Two-Party System
Excise Tax
New Left
Rock and Roll
8. 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
Isolationism
Barbed Wire
Joint Stock Company
Backlash
9. 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
Doves
Vietnam Revisionism
Grandfather Clauses
Judicial Review
10. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Independent Counsel
Doves
Hawks
Specie Circular
11. 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.
Anthracite Coal
Navigation Acts
Speakeasies
Short-staple Cotton
12. 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
Speakeasies
Headright System
Democracy
Temperance Movement
13. 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
Democracy
Alliances
Elastic Clause
14. 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.
Referendum
Royal Colony
Democracy
Impeachment
15. 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
Loose Constructionist
Baby Boom
New Left
Appeasement
16. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Theocracy
Teenagers
Mass Production
17. 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
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Annexation
Nationalism
Juvenile Delinquency
18. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Appeasement
Mestizos
Imperialism
19. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Vertical Integration
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Direct Democracy
Blacklist
20. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Sit-Ins
New Immigration
Navigation Acts
21. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Anthracite Coal
Boston Tea Party
Secession
Bicameral Legislature
22. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Gender Gap
Court Packing Scheme
Planter
23. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Teenagers
Democracy
Industrial Unionism
Strict Constructionist
24. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Pragmatism
Family Values
Universal Suffrage
Ratification
25. 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.
Sit-Ins
Interstate Commerce
Jim Crow
New Frontier
26. 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.
Assembly Line
Bush Doctrine
Interchangeable Parts
War on Terror
27. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Alliances
Realist Movement
Yellow Journalism
Blacklist
28. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Anthracite Coal
Theocracy
Transcontinental Railway
Scalawags
29. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Sit-Down Strike
Impressment
Craft Unionism
Stagflation
30. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
White Flight
Cabinet
Judicial Review
Isolationism
31. 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
Isolationism
Lynching
Encomienda
Containment
32. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Technological Unemployment
Containment
War on Terror
Virtual Representation
33. 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
Laissez-Faire
Domino Theory
Salutary Neglect
Yellow Journalism
34. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Backlash
Subprime Mortgage
Impressment
35. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
War on Poverty
Specie Circular
Excise Tax
Black Power
36. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Universal Suffrage
Division of Powers
Advertising
37. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Carpetbaggers
Internal Improvements
Anti-Communism
Isolationism
38. The study of the environment.
Sit-Ins
Scab
Unions
Ecology
39. The political position that opposes abortion.
Pro-Life
Artsian
Division of Powers
Royal Colony
40. 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.
Teenagers
Proprietary Colony
Advertising
Free Silverites
41. 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.
Capitalism
Second Reconstruction
Vertical Integration
Independent Counsel
42. The policy used by the British before the War of 1812 wherein the British stopped US vessels and removed sailors from them to be used on British naval vessels. it was also used to a limited extent by the French during this same period. It was one of
Free Soil Position
Impressment
Pro-Choice
Imperialism
43. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Delegated Powers
Protectorate
Abolitionism
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
Protective Tariff
Teach-Ins
Urban Riots
Pro-Life
45. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.
Trusts
Great Society
Progressive Movement
Contraband of War
46. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Settlement House Movement
New Frontier
Anti-Communism
Urban Riots
47. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Free Blacks
Political Machines
Free Labor
Consumer Society
48. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Reserved Powers Clause
Speculation
Pro-Life
49. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Yellow Journalism
Family Values
Baby Boom
White Flight
50. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Free Soil Position
Unions
Mercantilism
Bush Doctrine