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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Trusts
Talkies
Tariff
Isolationism
2. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Talkies
Great Society
Pro-Choice
Homesteaders
3. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
War on Poverty
Specie Circular
Ratification
Summit Meeting
4. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Second Reconstruction
Juvenile Delinquency
Lynching
Realist Movement
5. 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
Imperialism
Telegraph
Elastic Clause
White Flight
6. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Court Packing Scheme
Consumer Society
Vietnam Revisionism
Cotton Gin
7. 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
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Elastic Clause
Unlawful Combatants
Spoils System
8. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N
Nativism
Free Blacks
Salutary Neglect
Encomienda
9. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Loyalty Oaths
Sit-Ins
Gender Gap
10. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Nationalism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Protectorate
Manifest Destiny
11. 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
Two-Party System
Nativism
Nationalism
Isolationism
12. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte
Blacklist
Ratification
Judicial Review
Indentured Servitude
13. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Compassionate Conservatism
Patroonship
Culture Wars
Interchangeable Parts
14. 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.
Protective Tariff
Realist Movement
Free Blacks
Subprime Mortgage
15. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Specie Circular
Medicaid
Trusts
Weapons of Mass Destruction
16. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Containment
Nonaggression Treaty
Artsian
Lynching
17. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Social Mobility
Interchangeable Parts
Direct Democracy
Imperialism
18. 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
Judicial Review
Escalation
Consumer Society
19. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Jim Crow
Interstate Commerce
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Unicameral Legislature
20. 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
Navigation Acts
Cotton Gin
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Soil Position
21. The process of acquiring new territories
Mass Production
Direct Primary
Democracy
Annexation
22. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Kyoto Protocol
Nativism
Joint Stock Company
23. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Kyoto Protocol
Rugged Individualism
Excise Tax
Bailouts
24. 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.
Margin Buying
White Flight
New Immigration
Checks and Balances
25. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Baby Boom
Compact Theory
Spoils System
Royal Colony
26. 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
Elastic Clause
Baby Boom
Social Mobility
27. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Progressive Movement
Baby Boom
Referendum
Impeachment
28. 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
Teenagers
Contraband of War
Unions
29. 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
Black Power
Primogeniture
Impressment
Democracy
30. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Loose Constructionist
Backlash
Unlawful Combatants
Direct Primary
31. 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
Navigation Acts
Injunction
Alliances
32. An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods is determined by individual consumer preference. It is characterized by the free-enterprise system - competition - profit motive - and pricing based on the laws of supply and demand
Encomienda
Capitalism
Ethnic Cleansing
Interstate Commerce
33. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Impeachment
Backlash
Second Wave of Feminism
Imperialism
34. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Unions
Free Soil Position
Barbed Wire
Black Codes
35. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
McCarthyism
Division of Powers
Black Codes
Elastic Clause
36. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Navigation Acts
Baby Boom
37. 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.
New Immigration
Impeachment
Imperialism
Sharecropping
38. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Imperialism
Horizontal Integration
Juvenile Delinquency
Hawks
39. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Pragmatism
Impressment
Stagflation
White Flight
40. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Free Soil Position
Excise Tax
Juvenile Delinquency
Manifest Destiny
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
Colonization
Scab
Secession
Patroonship
42. 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.
Muckrackers
Free Soil Position
Impressment
Confederation
43. 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
Transcontinental Railway
Bailouts
Independent Counsel
Joint Stock Company
44. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Poll Tax
Theocracy
Pro-Choice
Temperance Movement
45. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Containment
Culture Wars
Craft Unionism
46. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Manifest Destiny
Alliances
Mestizos
Indentured Servitude
47. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Kyoto Protocol
Direct Democracy
Bush Doctrine
Rock and Roll
48. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Bootleggers
Contraband of War
Cold War
Protectorate
49. 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
Internal Improvements
Craft Unionism
Judicial Review
Gender Gap
50. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Scab
Subprime Mortgage
Cold War
Cotton Gin
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