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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Baby Boom
Realist Movement
Compact Theory
Salutary Neglect
2. 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.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Internal Improvements
Ethnic Cleansing
Black Power
3. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Horizontal Integration
Pro-Choice
Loose Constructionist
Abolitionism
4. 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.
Tariff
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Artsian
Court Packing Scheme
5. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Unicameral Legislature
Strict Constructionist
White Flight
Blue Laws
6. 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
Interstate Commerce
Bicameral Legislature
Teach-Ins
Injunction
7. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Joint Stock Company
Secession
Interstate Commerce
Democracy
8. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Suburbia
Family Values
Royal Colony
Impeachment
9. 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.
Transcontinental Railway
Nativism
Vertical Integration
Juvenile Delinquency
10. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Socialism
Anthracite Coal
Doves
Trusts
11. 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
Free Labor
Bimetallists
Headright System
Assembly Line
12. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Militarism
Checks and Balances
Mass Production
Advertising
13. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Medicaid
Salutary Neglect
Craft Unionism
Horizontal Integration
14. 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.
Primogeniture
Imperialism
Medicare
Conflict Historiography
15. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Homesteaders
Summit Meeting
New Immigration
Doves
16. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Imperialism
Virtual Representation
Strict Constructionist
Judicial Review
17. 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.
Separation of Powers
Assembly Line
War on Terror
Medicaid
18. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Speakeasies
Primogeniture
Isolationism
Universal Suffrage
19. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Homesteaders
Ecology
Industrial Unionism
Lynching
20. 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
McCarthyism
Progressive Movement
Theory of Perpetual Union
New Left
21. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.
Ratification
Carpetbaggers
Protective Tariff
Jim Crow
22. 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
Theocracy
Interchangeable Parts
Civil Rights Movement
Mercantilism
23. 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
Blue Laws
Impeachment
Self-Governing Colony
24. 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.
War on Terror
Spoils System
Capitalism
Second Reconstruction
25. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
Annexation
Headright System
McCarthyism
26. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Tenant Farming
Protective Tariff
Gender Gap
Ecology
27. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Ethnic Cleansing
Escalation
Progressive Movement
28. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Appeasement
Suburbia
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Tenant Farming
29. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Teenagers
Talkies
Dollar Diplomacy
Sharecropping
30. 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.
Suburbia
Impeachment
Pro-Choice
Free Labor
31. 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.
War on Terror
Mercantilism
Mass Production
Family Values
32. 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
New Frontier
Alliances
Guerrilla War
Supply-Side Economics
33. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Referendum
Compassionate Conservatism
Scalawags
Indentured Servitude
34. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Contraband of War
Theory of Perpetual Union
Isolationism
Universal Suffrage
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
Patroonship
Progressive Movement
36. 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.
Guerrilla War
Lynching
Sharecropping
Specie Circular
37. 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
Advertising
Loyalty Oaths
Intrastate Commerce
38. 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.
Alliances
Laissez-Faire
Imperialism
Stagflation
39. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Gender Gap
Initiative
Anti-Communism
Militarism
40. 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
New Left
Unicameral Legislature
New Frontier
Capitalism
41. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Poll Tax
Advertising
Gender Gap
Internal Improvements
42. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Domino Theory
Separation of Powers
Isolationism
43. 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.
Annexation
Referendum
Anti-Communism
Assembly Line
44. 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
Impeachment
Tenant Farming
Stagflation
Veto
45. 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.
Urban Riots
Delegated Powers
Jim Crow
Assembly Line
46. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Veto
Virtual Representation
Mass Production
Unions
47. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Socialism
Isolationism
Democracy
Spoils System
48. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Dollar Diplomacy
Teach-Ins
White Flight
Puppet Regimes
49. 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
White Flight
Assembly Line
Manifest Destiny
50. 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.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Division of Powers
Appeasement
Boston Tea Party