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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Anti-Communism
War on Poverty
Second Wave of Feminism
Culture of the Quarters
2. 1) The political theory that the people hold the fundamental power in a democracy 2) The proposal by Steven Douglas in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act stating that the people of the territory of Kansas and Nebraska could decide though their representati
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Popular Sovereignty
Salutary Neglect
Scalawags
3. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Talkies
Intrastate Commerce
Telegraph
4. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
War on Poverty
Talkies
Unicameral Legislature
Indentured Servitude
5. 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.
Isolationism
Mercantilism
Socialism
Social Mobility
6. 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
Independent Counsel
Indentured Servitude
Cowboys
Capitalism
7. 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
Teach-Ins
Temperance Movement
Interchangeable Parts
Militarism
8. 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.
Mestizos
Anthracite Coal
Sit-Down Strike
Consciousness-Raising Groups
9. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Civil Rights Movement
Trusts
Independent Counsel
Imperialism
10. 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
Bimetallists
Mercantilism
Encomienda
Bush Doctrine
11. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
War on Poverty
Puppet Regimes
Checks and Balances
Nonaggression Treaty
12. 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.
Annexation
Summit Meeting
Loose Constructionist
Reserved Powers Clause
13. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Democracy
Direct Primary
Two-Party System
Advertising
14. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Appeasement
Jim Crow
Yellow Journalism
Confederation
15. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Capitalism
New Frontier
Grandfather Clauses
Internal Improvements
16. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Anthracite Coal
Temperance Movement
Barbed Wire
17. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Impeachment
Containment
Isolationism
Specie Circular
18. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Grandfather Clauses
Independent Counsel
Colonization
19. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Culture of the Quarters
Ecology
Isolationism
Puppet Regimes
20. 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
Direct Primary
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Proprietary Colony
Assembly Line
21. 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.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Subprime Mortgage
Compassionate Conservatism
Bimetallists
22. 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
Court Packing Scheme
Bush Doctrine
Sit-Ins
Technological Unemployment
23. 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.
Progressive Movement
Free Labor
Alliances
Civil Rights Movement
24. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Initiative
Installment Plans
Trusts
Imperialism
25. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Protective Tariff
Anthracite Coal
Settlement House Movement
Summit Meeting
26. 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.
Political Machines
Anthracite Coal
Salutary Neglect
Cabinet
27. 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.
New Immigration
Blacklist
White Flight
Manifest Destiny
28. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Nonaggression Treaty
Judicial Review
Doves
Virtual Representation
29. 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.
Tenant Farming
Mass Production
Black Power
Judicial Review
30. 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.
Telegraph
Impressment
Delegated Powers
Homesteaders
31. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Homesteaders
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Capitalism
Family Values
32. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Royal Colony
Literacy Tests
Assembly Line
Contraband of War
33. 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.
Guerrilla War
Supply-Side Economics
Literacy Tests
Baby Boom
34. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Spoils System
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Doves
Internal Improvements
35. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Compact Theory
Yellow Journalism
Blue Laws
36. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Direct Democracy
Self-Governing Colony
Jim Crow
Artsian
37. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Black Power
Cowboys
Isolationism
Talkies
38. 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
Sit-Ins
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Consumer Society
Urban Riots
39. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Teenagers
Domino Theory
Blacklist
Contraband of War
40. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Pragmatism
Yellow Journalism
Universal Manhood Suffrage
New Immigration
41. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Yellow-dog Contract
Mestizos
Blacklist
McCarthyism
42. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Secession
Isolationism
Cotton Gin
43. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Tariff
Blue Laws
Subprime Mortgage
Proprietary Colony
44. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
War on Poverty
Direct Democracy
Escalation
Virtual Representation
45. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Stagflation
Blue Laws
Nativism
Popular Sovereignty
46. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Industrial Unionism
White Flight
Anthracite Coal
Political Machines
47. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Internal Improvements
Sit-Down Strike
Margin Buying
Universal Suffrage
48. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
Progressive Movement
Cowboys
Strict Constructionist
Primogeniture
49. 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
Imperialism
Temperance Movement
Margin Buying
Teach-Ins
50. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Poll Tax
Puppet Regimes
Bimetallists
Scalawags
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