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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Patroonship
Talkies
Social Gospel
Capitalism
2. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Advertising
Proprietary Colony
Ethnic Cleansing
Direct Democracy
3. 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
Short-staple Cotton
Reserved Powers Clause
Blue Laws
Interchangeable Parts
4. 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
War on Poverty
Joint Stock Company
Civil Rights Movement
Isolationism
5. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Mestizos
Blacklist
Cotton Gin
Proprietary Colony
6. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Advertising
Artsian
Yellow-dog Contract
McCarthyism
7. 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.
Black Power
Second Reconstruction
Artsian
Alliances
8. The British policy of the 17th century in which the British were lax in the enforcement of laws in the colonies - thereby allowing the colonies to develop without much interference from the British government. After the French and Indian War - this p
Salutary Neglect
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Blue Laws
Suburbia
9. 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
Puppet Regimes
Loyalty Oaths
Free Labor
Popular Sovereignty
10. 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.
New Frontier
Second Wave of Feminism
Reserved Powers Clause
Teenagers
11. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Isolationism
Culture of the Quarters
Industrial Unionism
12. 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
Blacklist
Manifest Destiny
Backlash
Teenagers
13. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Rock and Roll
Division of Powers
Two-Party System
Blue Laws
14. 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.
Referendum
Encomienda
Domino Theory
Intrastate Commerce
15. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it
Guerrilla War
Secession
Impeachment
Colonization
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.
White Flight
Compact Theory
Court Packing Scheme
Escalation
17. 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
Elastic Clause
Popular Sovereignty
Settlement House Movement
White Flight
18. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Literacy Tests
Blacklist
Nationalism
Hawks
19. 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
Gender Gap
Second Wave of Feminism
Jim Crow
Unions
20. 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.
Carpetbaggers
White Flight
Pragmatism
Technological Unemployment
21. 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.
McCarthyism
Initiative
Jim Crow
Judicial Review
22. 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.
Free Soil Position
Blacklist
Ethnic Cleansing
Sharecropping
23. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Impressment
McCarthyism
Advertising
Strict Constructionist
24. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Puppet Regimes
Teenagers
Short-staple Cotton
Doves
25. 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.
Doves
Pragmatism
Loose Constructionist
Culture Wars
26. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Industrial Unionism
Transcontinental Railway
Tenant Farming
Protectorate
27. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Independent Counsel
Referendum
Sharecropping
Consumer Society
28. 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.
Interchangeable Parts
Urban Riots
Rock and Roll
New Frontier
29. 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.
Manifest Destiny
Abolitionism
Interstate Commerce
Checks and Balances
30. 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.
Free Blacks
Isolationism
Temperance Movement
Tariff
31. 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.
Two-Party System
Stagflation
Contraband of War
Progressive Movement
32. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Short-staple Cotton
Sharecropping
Unions
Isolationism
33. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Loose Constructionist
Division of Powers
Social Gospel
White Flight
34. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Speakeasies
Black Codes
Yellow-dog Contract
Talkies
35. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Craft Unionism
Containment
Talkies
Appeasement
36. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Gender Gap
Assembly Line
Socialism
Urban Riots
37. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Realist Movement
Specie Circular
Summit Meeting
Capitalism
38. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Installment Plans
Realist Movement
Nationalism
Patroonship
39. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Realist Movement
Advertising
Protective Tariff
Judicial Review
40. 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
Isolationism
Progressive Movement
Margin Buying
Impeachment
41. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Domino Theory
Cold War
Abolitionism
Scalawags
42. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Contraband of War
Nativism
Proprietary Colony
43. 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.
Puppet Regimes
Teach-Ins
Elastic Clause
Doves
44. 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.
Artsian
Annexation
Separation of Powers
Barbed Wire
45. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Vietnam Revisionism
Nativism
Horizontal Integration
46. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Abolitionism
Bailouts
Civil Rights Movement
47. 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
Annexation
Medicare
Scalawags
Tariff
48. Lincoln's contention that the Union pre-existed the Constitution because it began with the Articles of Association in 1774-since the states had signed on to that document - the Union could not be broken. He discussed this theory in his first inaugura
Teenagers
Industrial Unionism
Rock and Roll
Theory of Perpetual Union
49. 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.
Literacy Tests
Bush Doctrine
Socialism
Juvenile Delinquency
50. The idea that the Constitution was created by the states and so the states could dissolve it. This was advocated first by Madison and Jefferson in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and later by Robert Y Hayne in his debate with Daniel Web
Bootleggers
Theocracy
Vertical Integration
Compact Theory