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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Colonization
Royal Colony
Dollar Diplomacy
Headright System
2. 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
Self-Governing Colony
Initiative
Assembly Line
Compact Theory
3. 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
Industrial Unionism
Scalawags
Teach-Ins
Installment Plans
4. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Injunction
Installment Plans
Anthracite Coal
Second Wave of Feminism
5. 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.
Primogeniture
New Immigration
Anti-Communism
Mass Production
6. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Internal Improvements
Bicameral Legislature
Carpetbaggers
Second Wave of Feminism
7. 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.
Social Mobility
Sharecropping
Vietnam Revisionism
Installment Plans
8. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
War on Poverty
Veto
Compassionate Conservatism
9. 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
Craft Unionism
Independent Counsel
Intrastate Commerce
Literacy Tests
10. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Veto
Barbed Wire
Bimetallists
Cowboys
11. 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
Assembly Line
Encomienda
Backlash
12. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Second Reconstruction
Nationalism
Teenagers
13. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Pro-Life
Vertical Integration
Bicameral Legislature
Hawks
14. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Jim Crow
Bush Doctrine
Hawks
Theory of Perpetual Union
15. The reaction of some whites to the Civil Rights Movement and the urban riots of the 1960s. The formerly solidly Democratic South started voting Republican following the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s - and many whites sent their kids
Backlash
Independent Counsel
Manifest Destiny
Kyoto Protocol
16. 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.
Laissez-Faire
Poll Tax
Culture of the Quarters
Alliances
17. 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
Sit-Ins
Political Machines
Imperialism
Speculation
18. 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.
Impressment
Teenagers
Primogeniture
Universal Suffrage
19. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Social Mobility
Teach-Ins
Abolitionism
Poll Tax
20. 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.
Mestizos
Laissez-Faire
Navigation Acts
Indentured Servitude
21. 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
Poll Tax
Second Wave of Feminism
Abolitionism
Family Values
22. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Teach-Ins
Division of Powers
Teenagers
Juvenile Delinquency
23. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Theory of Perpetual Union
War on Poverty
Virtual Representation
Rugged Individualism
24. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Abolitionism
Blacklist
Conflict Historiography
White Flight
25. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Short-staple Cotton
Kyoto Protocol
Political Machines
26. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Backlash
Nationalism
Scab
Internal Improvements
27. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Pragmatism
Excise Tax
Reserved Powers Clause
Craft Unionism
28. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Bailouts
Protectorate
Realist Movement
Industrial Unionism
29. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Blacklist
Protective Tariff
Imperialism
Division of Powers
30. 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.
Internal Improvements
Colonization
Imperialism
Temperance Movement
31. 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
Judicial Review
Guerrilla War
Sharecropping
Teach-Ins
32. 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
Social Gospel
Mass Production
Urban Riots
Medicare
33. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Talkies
Baby Boom
Elastic Clause
Isolationism
34. 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.
Patroonship
Internal Improvements
Court Packing Scheme
Scalawags
35. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Royal Colony
Anti-Communism
Culture of the Quarters
Specie Circular
36. 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.
Domino Theory
Guerrilla War
Jim Crow
Indentured Servitude
37. 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
Medicaid
Containment
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Tariff
38. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Poll Tax
Appeasement
Nationalism
Carpetbaggers
39. 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
Great Society
Talkies
Independent Counsel
40. 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
Compact Theory
Assembly Line
Scalawags
Secession
41. 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.
Contraband of War
Pro-Choice
Gender Gap
Isolationism
42. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Intrastate Commerce
New Frontier
Baby Boom
Isolationism
43. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Bush Doctrine
Telegraph
Referendum
Summit Meeting
44. 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
Suburbia
Isolationism
Unicameral Legislature
Judicial Review
45. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Confederation
Alliances
Social Mobility
Primogeniture
46. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Cotton Gin
Telegraph
Transcontinental Railway
47. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Court Packing Scheme
Protective Tariff
Medicaid
Blacklist
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.
Primogeniture
Hawks
Elastic Clause
Family Values
49. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Isolationism
Doves
Tenant Farming
Teach-Ins
50. 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
Capitalism
New Immigration
Contraband of War
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