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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Salutary Neglect
Doves
Strict Constructionist
Virtual Representation
2. 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.
Ratification
Progressive Movement
Gender Gap
Protective Tariff
3. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
War on Terror
Second Reconstruction
Primogeniture
Bicameral Legislature
4. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
McCarthyism
Unicameral Legislature
Talkies
5. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Assembly Line
Delegated Powers
Jim Crow
6. 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
Trusts
Impeachment
McCarthyism
Protectorate
7. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Trusts
Anti-Communism
Isolationism
Talkies
8. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Bailouts
Royal Colony
White Flight
Ratification
9. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Planter
Rock and Roll
Transcontinental Railway
Salutary Neglect
10. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Virtual Representation
Encomienda
Elastic Clause
11. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Rock and Roll
Medicare
Literacy Tests
12. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Trusts
Family Values
Elastic Clause
Laissez-Faire
13. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Headright System
Blacklist
Protective Tariff
Sit-Down Strike
14. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Yellow-dog Contract
Joint Stock Company
Suburbia
Internal Improvements
15. 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
Blue Laws
Robber Baron
Democracy
Backlash
16. 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.
Escalation
Colonization
Bush Doctrine
Puppet Regimes
17. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Medicaid
Colonization
Medicare
Patroonship
18. 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
McCarthyism
Social Mobility
Tenant Farming
19. 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
Impeachment
Unions
Protective Tariff
Impressment
20. 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
Joint Stock Company
Installment Plans
Delegated Powers
21. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Bush Doctrine
Independent Counsel
Pro-Life
Medicaid
22. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Horizontal Integration
Conflict Historiography
Bicameral Legislature
23. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Barbed Wire
Trusts
Boston Tea Party
Interchangeable Parts
24. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Interchangeable Parts
Yellow-dog Contract
Capitalism
25. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Muckrackers
Barbed Wire
Annexation
26. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Cold War
Virtual Representation
Speculation
Speakeasies
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.
Loose Constructionist
Jim Crow
Salutary Neglect
Pro-Choice
28. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
White Flight
Isolationism
Second Reconstruction
Compact Theory
29. 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.
Containment
Short-staple Cotton
Guerrilla War
Pro-Choice
30. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Salutary Neglect
Joint Stock Company
Barbed Wire
31. 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
New Frontier
Loose Constructionist
Impeachment
32. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Proprietary Colony
Poll Tax
Social Gospel
Laissez-Faire
33. 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.
Imperialism
Free Blacks
Sharecropping
Guerrilla War
34. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Militarism
Virtual Representation
35. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Telegraph
Lynching
Theocracy
36. The process of acquiring new territories
Black Codes
Annexation
Literacy Tests
Installment Plans
37. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Second Wave of Feminism
Free Labor
Tariff
Supply-Side Economics
38. 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.
Contraband of War
Imperialism
Culture of the Quarters
Referendum
39. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Settlement House Movement
Anthracite Coal
Suburbia
Mercantilism
40. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
White Flight
Self-Governing Colony
Progressive Movement
Nationalism
41. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Scab
Dollar Diplomacy
Bimetallists
Popular Sovereignty
42. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Free Soil Position
Sit-Ins
Dollar Diplomacy
Juvenile Delinquency
43. 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
Subprime Mortgage
Sit-Ins
Great Society
44. 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
Cabinet
Indentured Servitude
Guerrilla War
45. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Specie Circular
Loyalty Oaths
Teach-Ins
Realist Movement
46. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Protectorate
Yellow-dog Contract
Excise Tax
Blacklist
47. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Secession
Theory of Perpetual Union
Carpetbaggers
Colonization
48. 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.
Scalawags
Barbed Wire
Militarism
Virtual Representation
49. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Anti-Communism
Yellow Journalism
Talkies
Checks and Balances
50. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Popular Sovereignty
Specie Circular
Telegraph
Transcontinental Railway
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