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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Veto
Backlash
Homesteaders
Nonaggression Treaty
2. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Socialism
Craft Unionism
Theocracy
Interchangeable Parts
3. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
War on Terror
Free Blacks
Medicare
Settlement House Movement
4. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market
Margin Buying
Independent Counsel
Culture Wars
Popular Sovereignty
5. 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.
Judicial Review
Scalawags
Veto
Appeasement
6. The political position advocating sending free blacks to Liberia in Africa to reduce the number of them in the country-the more blacks that were freed - the fewer there would be in America. It was seen as a way of alleviating the danger of slave insu
Colonization
Protectorate
War on Poverty
Democracy
7. Machine-made or standardized parts that could be put together to make a product. Eli Whitney demonstrated to President John Adams in 1801 how a box of guns could be disassembled and reassembled randomly. Each part must be precision-made so that it wi
Guerrilla War
Temperance Movement
Interchangeable Parts
Artsian
8. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Impeachment
Boston Tea Party
Universal Suffrage
Medicare
9. 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.
Encomienda
Spoils System
Subprime Mortgage
Scalawags
10. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Stagflation
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Excise Tax
Isolationism
11. 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.
Delegated Powers
Jim Crow
Speakeasies
Black Codes
12. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni
Excise Tax
Backlash
Division of Powers
Protective Tariff
13. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Yellow Journalism
Political Machines
Scab
Popular Sovereignty
14. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Theocracy
Culture Wars
Pro-Choice
Blacklist
15. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Theocracy
Salutary Neglect
Checks and Balances
Confederation
16. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Realist Movement
Salutary Neglect
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Ethnic Cleansing
17. 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
Strict Constructionist
Assembly Line
Free Soil Position
Installment Plans
18. 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.
Elastic Clause
Civil Rights Movement
Scalawags
Black Codes
19. 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
Family Values
Nationalism
Imperialism
Bootleggers
20. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.
Progressive Movement
Conflict Historiography
Popular Sovereignty
New Left
21. A company that developed in the early 1600s in England wherein a group of investors pooled their money to finance exploration of the new World. The investor would receive a portion of the profits resulting from the exploration of the New World based
Blacklist
Pro-Choice
Mass Production
Joint Stock Company
22. 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
Sharecropping
Delegated Powers
Mestizos
Two-Party System
23. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Advertising
Division of Powers
Abolitionism
Socialism
24. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Speculation
Planter
Scab
Social Mobility
25. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Great Society
Appeasement
Tenant Farming
Spoils System
26. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Culture Wars
Reserved Powers Clause
Pragmatism
27. 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.
Barbed Wire
Rock and Roll
Anthracite Coal
Summit Meeting
28. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Speculation
Gender Gap
Industrial Unionism
Advertising
29. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
New Immigration
Theory of Perpetual Union
Imperialism
30. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Hawks
Telegraph
Elastic Clause
Delegated Powers
31. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Mestizos
Blacklist
Judicial Review
Proprietary Colony
32. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Sit-Ins
Second Reconstruction
Alliances
33. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Homesteaders
Virtual Representation
Direct Primary
Internal Improvements
34. 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.
Assembly Line
Culture Wars
Separation of Powers
Imperialism
35. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Ratification
Anthracite Coal
Protective Tariff
Jim Crow
36. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Artsian
Planter
Culture Wars
Blacklist
37. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Medicaid
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Dollar Diplomacy
Loose Constructionist
38. 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.
Short-staple Cotton
New Immigration
Advertising
Protective Tariff
39. 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.
Mass Production
Navigation Acts
Impressment
Containment
40. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
War on Terror
Speakeasies
Unicameral Legislature
Separation of Powers
41. 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.
Realist Movement
Royal Colony
Mass Production
Joint Stock Company
42. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Yellow Journalism
Ecology
Sit-Down Strike
War on Terror
43. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Jim Crow
Checks and Balances
Stagflation
Blue Laws
44. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Protective Tariff
Tenant Farming
Jim Crow
Scalawags
45. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Protectorate
Bimetallists
Imperialism
Teenagers
46. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Injunction
Secession
Yellow Journalism
Bush Doctrine
47. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Reserved Powers Clause
Suburbia
Mestizos
Margin Buying
48. 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.
Intrastate Commerce
Horizontal Integration
Black Codes
Speculation
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.
Speakeasies
Cabinet
Yellow-dog Contract
Socialism
50. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Political Machines
Jim Crow
Cotton Gin