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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Protective Tariff
Stagflation
Urban Riots
Isolationism
2. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Unicameral Legislature
Rock and Roll
Tariff
Realist Movement
3. 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.
Patroonship
Consumer Society
Theory of Perpetual Union
Rock and Roll
4. 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.
Vertical Integration
Tenant Farming
Appeasement
Teenagers
5. 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.
Lynching
Free Blacks
Jim Crow
Assembly Line
6. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Capitalism
Trusts
Virtual Representation
Jim Crow
7. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Talkies
Industrial Unionism
Virtual Representation
Weapons of Mass Destruction
8. 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.
Secession
Bicameral Legislature
Strict Constructionist
Two-Party System
9. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Laissez-Faire
Literacy Tests
Blacklist
Indentured Servitude
10. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Conflict Historiography
Rugged Individualism
Isolationism
Protective Tariff
11. 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
Great Society
Social Mobility
Temperance Movement
Appeasement
12. 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
Compact Theory
Imperialism
New Left
Yellow Journalism
13. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Political Machines
War on Poverty
Nonaggression Treaty
Installment Plans
14. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Domino Theory
Democracy
Bicameral Legislature
Horizontal Integration
15. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Black Power
Universal Suffrage
Speakeasies
Nativism
16. 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.
Containment
Black Power
Conflict Historiography
Separation of Powers
17. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Protectorate
Blacklist
Indentured Servitude
Cowboys
18. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Domino Theory
Blue Laws
Jim Crow
Transcontinental Railway
19. 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.
Great Society
Muckrackers
Virtual Representation
Intrastate Commerce
20. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Salutary Neglect
Ethnic Cleansing
Laissez-Faire
Temperance Movement
21. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
Nativism
Free Labor
Militarism
Speakeasies
22. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Self-Governing Colony
Bootleggers
Medicaid
Patroonship
23. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Militarism
Carpetbaggers
Headright System
Vertical Integration
24. 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
Poll Tax
Salutary Neglect
Dollar Diplomacy
Assembly Line
25. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe
Ratification
Free Blacks
Craft Unionism
Nationalism
26. 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.
Capitalism
Social Mobility
Gender Gap
Popular Sovereignty
27. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Delegated Powers
Literacy Tests
Juvenile Delinquency
28. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Royal Colony
Grandfather Clauses
Technological Unemployment
New Frontier
29. 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
Delegated Powers
Supply-Side Economics
Free Soil Position
Free Silverites
30. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Robber Baron
Hawks
Ethnic Cleansing
Culture of the Quarters
31. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Civil Rights Movement
Supply-Side Economics
Secession
Unions
32. The power of the president to reject legislation. The US Congress can override a veto by the US president if it can pass the legislation by a two-thirds majority.
Conflict Historiography
Veto
Imperialism
Medicare
33. An element of President Truman's 1947 Federal Employees Loyalty and Security Program - which was designed to weed out communists and other "subversives" from government employment.
Universal Suffrage
Loyalty Oaths
New Frontier
Vertical Integration
34. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Reserved Powers Clause
Great Society
Imperialism
Two-Party System
35. 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.
Primogeniture
Containment
Barbed Wire
Teenagers
36. Cotton that grew inland in the Black Belt of the South - an area characterized by its dark soil. Short-staple cotton could not be grown profitably until the cotton gin was invented.
Primogeniture
Poll Tax
Short-staple Cotton
Loyalty Oaths
37. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Doves
Isolationism
Pragmatism
Pro-Choice
38. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Loose Constructionist
Laissez-Faire
Compact Theory
Isolationism
39. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Checks and Balances
New Immigration
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Theocracy
40. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Assembly Line
Carpetbaggers
Appeasement
41. 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
Scalawags
Tenant Farming
Pragmatism
Capitalism
42. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Interchangeable Parts
Bicameral Legislature
Second Reconstruction
Cotton Gin
43. 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
Family Values
Containment
Jim Crow
Tariff
44. 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.
Cotton Gin
Delegated Powers
Colonization
Black Power
45. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Ratification
Isolationism
Planter
Teach-Ins
46. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Confederation
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Navigation Acts
Anti-Communism
47. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Free Silverites
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Unions
Joint Stock Company
48. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.
Militarism
Supply-Side Economics
Impeachment
Self-Governing Colony
49. The practice of victorious candidates distributing government jobs to friends and supporters rather than to the most qualified people. Andre Jackson gave his supporters the spoils of victory - whereas John Quincy Adams by and large did not.
Technological Unemployment
Anthracite Coal
Spoils System
Protective Tariff
50. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Telegraph
Medicare
Universal Manhood Suffrage
New Immigration