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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Cabinet
Social Gospel
New Frontier
Salutary Neglect
2. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Direct Primary
Judicial Review
Bicameral Legislature
Intrastate Commerce
3. 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.
Joint Stock Company
Free Soil Position
Medicare
Checks and Balances
4. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Mestizos
Cotton Gin
Laissez-Faire
Family Values
5. 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
Free Soil Position
Compact Theory
Muckrackers
Checks and Balances
6. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Mass Production
Bush Doctrine
Scalawags
Ecology
7. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
New Immigration
Bicameral Legislature
Vertical Integration
Tariff
8. 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.
Black Power
Bimetallists
Supply-Side Economics
Guerrilla War
9. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Protectorate
Independent Counsel
Blue Laws
Impeachment
10. 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.
Confederation
Stagflation
Assembly Line
Containment
11. 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.
Rock and Roll
Vertical Integration
Yellow-dog Contract
Loose Constructionist
12. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Temperance Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Barbed Wire
Artsian
13. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Social Mobility
Gender Gap
Margin Buying
Veto
14. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Teach-Ins
Culture Wars
Democracy
Mortgage-Backed Securities
15. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Second Reconstruction
New Immigration
Intrastate Commerce
16. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Self-Governing Colony
Yellow-dog Contract
Kyoto Protocol
Anti-Communism
17. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Vietnam Revisionism
Political Machines
Muckrackers
Telegraph
18. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Unlawful Combatants
Mercantilism
Universal Suffrage
Containment
19. 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
Joint Stock Company
Ethnic Cleansing
Alliances
Boston Tea Party
20. 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.
Telegraph
Suburbia
Sharecropping
Speculation
21. A prosecutor chosen by a panel of three judges (appointed by the attorney general) to investigate wrongdoing in the executive branch. Established after the Watergate Scandal - the role was designed to prevent conflict of interest within the executive
Protective Tariff
Suburbia
Yellow Journalism
Independent Counsel
22. 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
Temperance Movement
Scalawags
Mass Production
Impeachment
23. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Baby Boom
Direct Primary
Scab
Ethnic Cleansing
24. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Urban Riots
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Free Silverites
Black Codes
25. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Free Silverites
Isolationism
Speculation
Stagflation
26. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Interstate Commerce
Separation of Powers
Industrial Unionism
Containment
27. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Speakeasies
Ecology
Delegated Powers
28. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Tenant Farming
Containment
Nationalism
Blacklist
29. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Imperialism
Ecology
Universal Suffrage
Civil Rights Movement
30. 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
War on Terror
New Left
Loose Constructionist
Barbed Wire
31. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Bimetallists
Vietnam Revisionism
Cabinet
Excise Tax
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
Scab
Two-Party System
Capitalism
Progressive Movement
33. 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
Excise Tax
Second Wave of Feminism
Muckrackers
34. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Veto
Progressive Movement
Protective Tariff
35. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
War on Poverty
Referendum
Cowboys
Domino Theory
36. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Self-Governing Colony
Great Society
Jim Crow
37. 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
Abolitionism
Industrial Unionism
Pro-Life
Unlawful Combatants
38. 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
Urban Riots
Domino Theory
Cotton Gin
Installment Plans
39. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Ethnic Cleansing
Artsian
Poll Tax
Escalation
40. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Isolationism
Trusts
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Cabinet
41. 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
Mercantilism
Realist Movement
Temperance Movement
Sit-Ins
42. 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.
Talkies
Tenant Farming
White Flight
Political Machines
43. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Vertical Integration
White Flight
44. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Capitalism
Ratification
Specie Circular
Hawks
45. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Direct Primary
Spoils System
Reserved Powers Clause
Manifest Destiny
46. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Court Packing Scheme
Referendum
Domino Theory
Interchangeable Parts
47. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Domino Theory
Realist Movement
Excise Tax
Nationalism
48. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Carpetbaggers
Contraband of War
Containment
Weapons of Mass Destruction
49. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
White Flight
Free Soil Position
Internal Improvements
Consumer Society
50. 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
Bailouts
Assembly Line
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Short-staple Cotton
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