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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Initiative
Stagflation
Lynching
Capitalism
2. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Domino Theory
Great Society
Family Values
Grandfather Clauses
3. 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.
Hawks
Telegraph
Spoils System
Blacklist
4. 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
Direct Democracy
Sharecropping
Unlawful Combatants
5. 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.
Spoils System
Appeasement
Initiative
Proprietary Colony
6. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Settlement House Movement
Division of Powers
Scab
Consciousness-Raising Groups
7. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Patroonship
Delegated Powers
Weapons of Mass Destruction
8. 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
Conflict Historiography
Consumer Society
Telegraph
New Left
9. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Intrastate Commerce
Secession
Nonaggression Treaty
Direct Democracy
10. 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.
Royal Colony
Spoils System
Barbed Wire
Weapons of Mass Destruction
11. 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.
Progressive Movement
Suburbia
Scalawags
Gender Gap
12. 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.
Teenagers
Compact Theory
Second Reconstruction
Rock and Roll
13. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Initiative
Socialism
Carpetbaggers
14. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Indentured Servitude
Baby Boom
Checks and Balances
Free Blacks
15. 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.
Navigation Acts
Theocracy
Ratification
Annexation
16. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Scalawags
Impressment
Margin Buying
17. 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
Bimetallists
Two-Party System
Homesteaders
Separation of Powers
18. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Artsian
Doves
Cabinet
19. 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
Social Mobility
Navigation Acts
Second Wave of Feminism
Contraband of War
20. 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
Guerrilla War
Democracy
Headright System
Judicial Review
21. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Tariff
Yellow Journalism
Hawks
Settlement House Movement
22. 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.
Impeachment
Rugged Individualism
Kyoto Protocol
Primogeniture
23. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Puppet Regimes
Referendum
Conflict Historiography
24. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Robber Baron
Bush Doctrine
Scalawags
Anti-Communism
25. 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.
Horizontal Integration
Loyalty Oaths
Delegated Powers
Containment
26. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Virtual Representation
New Left
Blue Laws
Mortgage-Backed Securities
27. 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.
Short-staple Cotton
Speculation
Bush Doctrine
Ethnic Cleansing
28. The political position that opposes abortion.
Secession
Great Society
Popular Sovereignty
Pro-Life
29. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
War on Terror
Separation of Powers
Bootleggers
Independent Counsel
30. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s
Isolationism
Manifest Destiny
Cotton Gin
Direct Primary
31. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Conflict Historiography
Summit Meeting
Isolationism
32. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Jim Crow
Urban Riots
Planter
Impeachment
33. 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.
Nativism
Impeachment
New Immigration
Barbed Wire
34. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Installment Plans
Social Mobility
Nonaggression Treaty
Protective Tariff
35. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Indentured Servitude
Second Wave of Feminism
Interstate Commerce
Nationalism
36. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Robber Baron
Juvenile Delinquency
Technological Unemployment
Tenant Farming
37. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Elastic Clause
Bicameral Legislature
Judicial Review
Speculation
38. 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
Black Power
Alliances
Delegated Powers
Assembly Line
39. 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
Transcontinental Railway
Nationalism
Manifest Destiny
Puppet Regimes
40. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Alliances
Loose Constructionist
Subprime Mortgage
Homesteaders
41. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Culture of the Quarters
Dollar Diplomacy
Mass Production
Speakeasies
42. 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.
Free Labor
Telegraph
Imperialism
Urban Riots
43. 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.
Black Power
New Frontier
Puppet Regimes
Mass Production
44. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Cotton Gin
Industrial Unionism
Internal Improvements
Barbed Wire
45. 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.
Summit Meeting
Capitalism
Loyalty Oaths
Interchangeable Parts
46. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Excise Tax
Protectorate
Virtual Representation
Tenant Farming
47. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Barbed Wire
Installment Plans
Imperialism
Social Gospel
48. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Poll Tax
Intrastate Commerce
Spoils System
Isolationism
49. 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
Mestizos
Medicare
Tenant Farming
Internal Improvements
50. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
War on Terror
Scalawags
White Flight
Direct Primary
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