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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Dollar Diplomacy
Vertical Integration
Transcontinental Railway
Compact Theory
2. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Alliances
Artsian
Installment Plans
Separation of Powers
3. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Settlement House Movement
Guerrilla War
Socialism
Scalawags
4. 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
Hawks
Referendum
Assembly Line
Mercantilism
5. 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
Speakeasies
Technological Unemployment
Division of Powers
6. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Barbed Wire
Blacklist
Internal Improvements
7. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Intrastate Commerce
Pro-Choice
Blacklist
Nativism
8. 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
Poll Tax
Nativism
Compact Theory
Planter
9. 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
Black Codes
Great Society
Free Soil Position
Royal Colony
10. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Socialism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Intrastate Commerce
Democracy
11. 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
Contraband of War
Capitalism
War on Poverty
Summit Meeting
12. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Assembly Line
Gender Gap
White Flight
13. The process of acquiring new territories
Unions
Poll Tax
Escalation
Annexation
14. 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 Democracy
Sharecropping
Reserved Powers Clause
Family Values
15. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Mercantilism
Craft Unionism
Robber Baron
Compact Theory
16. 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.
Interchangeable Parts
Cabinet
Injunction
Jim Crow
17. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
New Left
Alliances
Theocracy
Mass Production
18. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Bailouts
Protective Tariff
Realist Movement
Tariff
19. 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
Unicameral Legislature
Independent Counsel
Ratification
Strict Constructionist
20. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Short-staple Cotton
Blue Laws
Scalawags
Bush Doctrine
21. 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
Imperialism
Independent Counsel
Unlawful Combatants
Royal Colony
22. The political position that opposes abortion.
Civil Rights Movement
Pro-Life
Cowboys
Mestizos
23. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Teenagers
Ethnic Cleansing
Barbed Wire
Injunction
24. 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.
Confederation
Scalawags
Craft Unionism
Sharecropping
25. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Tenant Farming
Direct Primary
Kyoto Protocol
Stagflation
26. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Advertising
Medicaid
Mestizos
27. 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
Yellow-dog Contract
Independent Counsel
Referendum
Abolitionism
28. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Speakeasies
Second Reconstruction
Containment
Elastic Clause
29. 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
War on Terror
Pragmatism
Free Soil Position
Domino Theory
30. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Excise Tax
Doves
Grandfather Clauses
Judicial Review
31. 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.
Court Packing Scheme
Rock and Roll
Internal Improvements
Annexation
32. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Imperialism
Black Power
Medicaid
33. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Indentured Servitude
Ratification
Anti-Communism
War on Terror
34. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Militarism
Social Mobility
Transcontinental Railway
Yellow Journalism
35. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Navigation Acts
Laissez-Faire
Installment Plans
Escalation
36. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Impeachment
Planter
Impressment
Mestizos
37. 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
Alliances
Transcontinental Railway
Separation of Powers
Culture of the Quarters
38. 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.
Transcontinental Railway
Cabinet
Strict Constructionist
Abolitionism
39. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Assembly Line
Hawks
Black Power
Cold War
40. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Margin Buying
Doves
Pragmatism
Urban Riots
41. Historiography is the study of how history is written. Historians in the 1950s-consensus historians-in general argued that America was the world's great democracy that only did good in the world and had no conflicts at home. Largely due to the effort
Second Reconstruction
Encomienda
Protectorate
Conflict Historiography
42. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Kyoto Protocol
Spoils System
Grandfather Clauses
43. 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.
Direct Primary
Teenagers
Telegraph
Self-Governing Colony
44. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Juvenile Delinquency
Impressment
Anti-Communism
Grandfather Clauses
45. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Culture Wars
Two-Party System
Short-staple Cotton
46. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Judicial Review
Protective Tariff
Nativism
Juvenile Delinquency
47. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Domino Theory
Mass Production
Temperance Movement
Specie Circular
48. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Self-Governing Colony
Second Reconstruction
Headright System
49. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Guerrilla War
Cowboys
Virtual Representation
Muckrackers
50. 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.
Two-Party System
Technological Unemployment
Referendum
Protective Tariff