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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Sit-Down Strike
Dollar Diplomacy
Socialism
2. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Assembly Line
Rugged Individualism
Navigation Acts
3. 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
Division of Powers
Second Wave of Feminism
Bush Doctrine
Hawks
4. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.
Protectorate
Free Silverites
Socialism
Impeachment
5. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Cotton Gin
Teenagers
Sharecropping
6. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Guerrilla War
Self-Governing Colony
Stagflation
Talkies
7. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Culture of the Quarters
Encomienda
Free Silverites
Separation of Powers
8. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Medicare
McCarthyism
Jim Crow
Barbed Wire
9. 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
Social Mobility
Anthracite Coal
Loyalty Oaths
Family Values
10. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
McCarthyism
Guerrilla War
Interstate Commerce
Vietnam Revisionism
11. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Kyoto Protocol
Baby Boom
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Laissez-Faire
12. The British policy of the 17th century in which the British were lax in the enforcement of laws in the colonies - thereby allowing the colonies to develop without much interference from the British government. After the French and Indian War - this p
Patroonship
Pro-Life
Muckrackers
Salutary Neglect
13. 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.
Compassionate Conservatism
Delegated Powers
Mestizos
New Immigration
14. 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.
Loyalty Oaths
Consumer Society
Militarism
Sharecropping
15. Reading tests required in some Southern states before people were allowed to register to vote. They were mainly intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
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Unicameral Legislature
Pro-Choice
Independent Counsel
16. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Medicaid
Scalawags
Socialism
Great Society
17. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Summit Meeting
Free Silverites
Horizontal Integration
Mercantilism
18. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Vertical Integration
Telegraph
Universal Manhood Suffrage
19. 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
Rugged Individualism
Suburbia
Ethnic Cleansing
Cotton Gin
20. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Manifest Destiny
Urban Riots
Subprime Mortgage
Socialism
21. 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
Free Soil Position
Abolitionism
Tariff
Homesteaders
22. 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
Literacy Tests
Reserved Powers Clause
Navigation Acts
Judicial Review
23. The study of the environment.
Primogeniture
Ecology
Jim Crow
Sit-Down Strike
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
Bimetallists
Militarism
Supply-Side Economics
Assembly Line
25. 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
Encomienda
Civil Rights Movement
Assembly Line
Judicial Review
26. 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.
Confederation
Salutary Neglect
Medicaid
Rock and Roll
27. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Tenant Farming
Subprime Mortgage
Bicameral Legislature
Bimetallists
28. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Isolationism
Pragmatism
Homesteaders
Lynching
29. An increase in number - volume - scope. In reference to the Vietnam War - it refers to the increase in the number of troops and the intensity of involvement by the United States.
Mass Production
Temperance Movement
Sit-Ins
Escalation
30. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Yellow-dog Contract
Cowboys
Installment Plans
31. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Transcontinental Railway
Juvenile Delinquency
Royal Colony
Delegated Powers
32. A belief in the ability of people to achieve success in difficult times by calling on their own abilities and resources without the interference of the government. Herbert Hoover subscribed to this notion; it affected the development of governmental
Horizontal Integration
Rugged Individualism
Protectorate
Mass Production
33. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Kyoto Protocol
Blacklist
Impressment
Social Mobility
34. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Ethnic Cleansing
Containment
Speakeasies
Muckrackers
35. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Interstate Commerce
Delegated Powers
Court Packing Scheme
Bailouts
36. The political position that opposes abortion.
Doves
Pro-Life
Militarism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
37. 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
Stagflation
Injunction
Sit-Ins
Compact Theory
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.
Kyoto Protocol
Political Machines
Compassionate Conservatism
Cabinet
39. 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
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Primogeniture
Socialism
40. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
White Flight
Yellow Journalism
Division of Powers
Backlash
41. 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
Social Mobility
Scalawags
Popular Sovereignty
Great Society
42. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Ethnic Cleansing
Doves
Second Wave of Feminism
Virtual Representation
43. 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
Encomienda
Teach-Ins
Guerrilla War
Culture Wars
44. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Jim Crow
Theory of Perpetual Union
Bootleggers
Reserved Powers Clause
45. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Scab
Settlement House Movement
Appeasement
Industrial Unionism
46. 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
Poll Tax
Imperialism
Trusts
47. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Intrastate Commerce
Nativism
Division of Powers
48. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Impressment
Tariff
Excise Tax
Vertical Integration
49. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Impeachment
Black Power
Scab
50. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Robber Baron
Isolationism
New Left
Ethnic Cleansing
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