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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Blacklist
Loose Constructionist
Bimetallists
Margin Buying
2. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
Political Machines
Salutary Neglect
Muckrackers
3. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Black Codes
Court Packing Scheme
Cabinet
Advertising
4. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Pro-Life
Margin Buying
Speakeasies
Colonization
5. The Eisenhower-era theory that one communist country would infiltrate or influence its neighbors - supporting insurrection there and causing them to become communist too. They would fall like a series of dominoes standing close together. Kennedy - Jo
Strict Constructionist
Domino Theory
Compassionate Conservatism
Installment Plans
6. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Blue Laws
Loose Constructionist
Confederation
7. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Court Packing Scheme
Doves
Alliances
Craft Unionism
8. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Strict Constructionist
Tenant Farming
Muckrackers
Supply-Side Economics
9. 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.
Imperialism
Pro-Choice
Unlawful Combatants
Referendum
10. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Realist Movement
Abolitionism
Homesteaders
Theocracy
11. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Joint Stock Company
Transcontinental Railway
Sharecropping
Confederation
12. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Secession
Baby Boom
Vietnam Revisionism
Impeachment
13. 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.
Realist Movement
Pro-Life
Great Society
Kyoto Protocol
14. Organizations - such as the underground press - Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoots - and women's groups (like the Red Stockings) - that were interested in social change but uninterested in the debates over whether to support Russia a
Blacklist
New Left
Conflict Historiography
Pro-Choice
15. 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
Scab
Unlawful Combatants
Elastic Clause
McCarthyism
16. 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
Direct Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Vertical Integration
Second Wave of Feminism
17. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Unions
New Immigration
Direct Democracy
Lynching
18. 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.
Domino Theory
Direct Primary
Political Machines
Subprime Mortgage
19. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Bush Doctrine
Manifest Destiny
Navigation Acts
20. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Progressive Movement
Anthracite Coal
Pro-Life
Installment Plans
21. 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
Conflict Historiography
Cold War
Elastic Clause
Backlash
22. 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.
Democracy
Primogeniture
Civil Rights Movement
Royal Colony
23. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Cowboys
Backlash
Tenant Farming
Bootleggers
24. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
Guerrilla War
War on Terror
Tenant Farming
Rugged Individualism
25. 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.
Teenagers
Separation of Powers
Doves
Initiative
26. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Political Machines
Mercantilism
Specie Circular
Realist Movement
27. The Eisenhower-era theory that one communist country would infiltrate or influence its neighbors - supporting insurrection there and causing them to become communist too. They would fall like a series of dominoes standing close together. Kennedy - Jo
White Flight
Alliances
Domino Theory
Literacy Tests
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.
Teenagers
Medicare
Loose Constructionist
Consumer Society
29. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Doves
Unlawful Combatants
Appeasement
30. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Primogeniture
White Flight
Nonaggression Treaty
Horizontal Integration
31. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Specie Circular
Protectorate
Consumer Society
Division of Powers
32. 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
Settlement House Movement
Telegraph
Judicial Review
Conflict Historiography
33. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Urban Riots
Compact Theory
Referendum
Bimetallists
34. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Popular Sovereignty
Pragmatism
Blacklist
Literacy Tests
35. A political system dominated by two parties. Voters reluctance to support third parties reinforces the two-party system. The first two-party system - dating back to the 1970s - included the Federalist and Republican Parties. The current two-party sys
Isolationism
Two-Party System
Militarism
Interstate Commerce
36. 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.
Impeachment
Backlash
Mestizos
Artsian
37. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Salutary Neglect
Hawks
Compact Theory
Ecology
38. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.
Settlement House Movement
Appeasement
Interchangeable Parts
Ratification
39. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Virtual Representation
Independent Counsel
Rugged Individualism
Dollar Diplomacy
40. 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.
Jim Crow
Social Mobility
Industrial Unionism
Blue Laws
41. 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
Indentured Servitude
Yellow-dog Contract
Nativism
Doves
42. A body of advisers to a head of state. The US president's cabinet consists of the heads of the various departments plus other advisers.
Subprime Mortgage
Settlement House Movement
Cabinet
Talkies
43. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Grandfather Clauses
Sit-Down Strike
Carpetbaggers
Robber Baron
44. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Poll Tax
Assembly Line
Escalation
Teach-Ins
45. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Socialism
War on Poverty
Vertical Integration
Mortgage-Backed Securities
46. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Yellow-dog Contract
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Theocracy
Assembly Line
47. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Royal Colony
Urban Riots
Consumer Society
Juvenile Delinquency
48. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Headright System
Pragmatism
Artsian
Literacy Tests
49. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Suffrage
Interchangeable Parts
Scalawags
Robber Baron
50. 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.
Strict Constructionist
New Immigration
Appeasement
Baby Boom