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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
Tariff
Impeachment
Veto
Talkies
2. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Pro-Life
Isolationism
Stagflation
Bootleggers
3. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Speakeasies
Political Machines
Unicameral Legislature
Interstate Commerce
4. 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
Tenant Farming
Second Wave of Feminism
Social Gospel
5. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.
Virtual Representation
Political Machines
Telegraph
Proprietary Colony
6. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Virtual Representation
Muckrackers
Margin Buying
Urban Riots
7. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Culture Wars
Abolitionism
Nationalism
8. 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.
Advertising
Settlement House Movement
White Flight
Jim Crow
9. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Checks and Balances
Short-staple Cotton
Barbed Wire
10. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Imperialism
Mestizos
Injunction
Gender Gap
11. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Cowboys
Referendum
Teenagers
Laissez-Faire
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.
Unlawful Combatants
Black Power
Second Reconstruction
New Left
13. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Direct Primary
Nativism
Theocracy
Bush Doctrine
14. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Sharecropping
Family Values
Militarism
15. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Transcontinental Railway
Installment Plans
Referendum
16. The power of the president to reject legislation. The US Congress can override a veto by the US president if it can pass the legislation by a two-thirds majority.
Poll Tax
Progressive Movement
Urban Riots
Veto
17. 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
Impeachment
Grandfather Clauses
Containment
Virtual Representation
18. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Patroonship
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Silverites
Lynching
19. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called separation of powers.
Checks and Balances
Vertical Integration
Anti-Communism
Puppet Regimes
20. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Secession
Nativism
Virtual Representation
Nonaggression Treaty
21. The political belief that America's obvious future was to "o'er spread the continent -" in the words of John O'Sullivan in 1846. A corollary was that Americans would bring democracy to the "ignorant and inferior" peoples of the West. The Mexican War
Manifest Destiny
Jim Crow
Short-staple Cotton
Muckrackers
22. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Navigation Acts
Imperialism
Unicameral Legislature
23. 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.
Imperialism
Ratification
Black Power
Cold War
24. 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
Socialism
Impressment
Delegated Powers
Grandfather Clauses
25. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Loose Constructionist
Delegated Powers
Civil Rights Movement
Blue Laws
26. 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
Impeachment
Culture Wars
Checks and Balances
Vertical Integration
27. 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
Bootleggers
Ratification
Rugged Individualism
Vertical Integration
28. 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.
Scab
Assembly Line
Manifest Destiny
Loose Constructionist
29. 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
Universal Suffrage
Hawks
Literacy Tests
Second Wave of Feminism
30. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Margin Buying
Socialism
Political Machines
31. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Vietnam Revisionism
War on Terror
Democracy
32. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Democracy
Universal Suffrage
New Immigration
Protectorate
33. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Specie Circular
Democracy
Tenant Farming
Scab
34. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Spoils System
War on Terror
Free Silverites
White Flight
35. 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
Division of Powers
Intrastate Commerce
Indentured Servitude
Black Codes
36. 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.
Compact Theory
Excise Tax
Imperialism
Horizontal Integration
37. 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.
Political Machines
Yellow Journalism
Direct Primary
New Immigration
38. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called checks and balances.
Separation of Powers
Civil Rights Movement
Mercantilism
Conflict Historiography
39. 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.
Socialism
Vietnam Revisionism
Installment Plans
Tenant Farming
40. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Bimetallists
Vertical Integration
Delegated Powers
Suburbia
41. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Technological Unemployment
Dollar Diplomacy
Unions
Installment Plans
42. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Suffrage
Escalation
Installment Plans
Annexation
43. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Kyoto Protocol
Bootleggers
Primogeniture
Unions
44. 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.
New Immigration
Socialism
Settlement House Movement
Free Blacks
45. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Joint Stock Company
Medicare
Juvenile Delinquency
46. 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.
Pragmatism
Great Society
Cold War
Division of Powers
47. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Industrial Unionism
Universal Suffrage
Loyalty Oaths
Strict Constructionist
48. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Bailouts
Rugged Individualism
Strict Constructionist
49. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Telegraph
Boston Tea Party
Artsian
50. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Advertising
Cotton Gin
Political Machines
Court Packing Scheme