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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Two-Party System
Tariff
Self-Governing Colony
Guerrilla War
2. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Scalawags
Second Reconstruction
Urban Riots
3. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Reserved Powers Clause
McCarthyism
Second Wave of Feminism
4. 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
Capitalism
Black Codes
Anti-Communism
5. 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
Impeachment
Assembly Line
Grandfather Clauses
Ecology
6. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
New Frontier
Virtual Representation
Primogeniture
Direct Primary
7. 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.
Sharecropping
War on Poverty
Encomienda
Cold War
8. 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.
White Flight
Appeasement
Second Reconstruction
Internal Improvements
9. 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
Consumer Society
Isolationism
Unicameral Legislature
10. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Secession
Yellow-dog Contract
11. 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
Compassionate Conservatism
Unlawful Combatants
Assembly Line
Navigation Acts
12. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Isolationism
War on Poverty
Boston Tea Party
Unions
13. 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.
Sit-Ins
Socialism
Veto
Strict Constructionist
14. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Guerrilla War
Tenant Farming
Black Codes
Barbed Wire
15. 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.
Unlawful Combatants
Vertical Integration
Planter
Teenagers
16. 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.
Conflict Historiography
Injunction
Subprime Mortgage
Direct Primary
17. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Bush Doctrine
Interchangeable Parts
Family Values
Pragmatism
18. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Culture of the Quarters
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Judicial Review
Universal Manhood Suffrage
19. 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
Scalawags
Social Mobility
Hawks
20. Lincoln's contention that the Union pre-existed the Constitution because it began with the Articles of Association in 1774-since the states had signed on to that document - the Union could not be broken. He discussed this theory in his first inaugura
Literacy Tests
Direct Democracy
Theory of Perpetual Union
Isolationism
21. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.
Temperance Movement
Strict Constructionist
Vietnam Revisionism
White Flight
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.
Family Values
Ethnic Cleansing
Primogeniture
Injunction
23. 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
White Flight
Escalation
Gender Gap
Margin Buying
24. 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 separation of powers.
Socialism
Checks and Balances
Poll Tax
Anthracite Coal
25. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Ethnic Cleansing
Urban Riots
Blacklist
Craft Unionism
26. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
New Left
Bicameral Legislature
Nationalism
27. 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.
Two-Party System
Spoils System
Summit Meeting
Ratification
28. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Sit-Ins
Socialism
Installment Plans
Initiative
29. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Culture of the Quarters
McCarthyism
Abolitionism
30. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Veto
Baby Boom
Loyalty Oaths
Stagflation
31. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Nonaggression Treaty
Loyalty Oaths
Transcontinental Railway
Cowboys
32. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Progressive Movement
Blue Laws
Court Packing Scheme
Mass Production
33. The political position advocated by Jerry Falwell - Pat Robertson - and other conservative Republicans emphasizing a life of religious observance along with no drugs - no divorce - no abortions - no homosexuality - no working mothers - and no sex bef
Speculation
Navigation Acts
Family Values
Tariff
34. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Craft Unionism
Stagflation
Protective Tariff
Isolationism
35. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Socialism
Bimetallists
Great Society
Talkies
36. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Lynching
Interstate Commerce
Pro-Choice
Joint Stock Company
37. The idea that machinery eliminates the need for human employment-that the development of new machine-based methods of work can lead to workers' losing their jobs.
Isolationism
Technological Unemployment
Second Reconstruction
Pro-Life
38. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Assembly Line
Talkies
Indentured Servitude
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.
Navigation Acts
Doves
Teenagers
Domino Theory
40. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Initiative
White Flight
Ratification
Second Reconstruction
41. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Homesteaders
Backlash
Specie Circular
Talkies
42. 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.
Trusts
Ecology
Puppet Regimes
Literacy Tests
43. 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.
Independent Counsel
Sharecropping
Veto
Two-Party System
44. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Craft Unionism
Bailouts
Direct Democracy
Muckrackers
45. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Second Reconstruction
Virtual Representation
Bailouts
Pro-Choice
46. 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
Scalawags
Free Labor
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Yellow Journalism
47. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Sit-Down Strike
Conflict Historiography
Capitalism
Medicaid
48. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Veto
Artsian
Short-staple Cotton
White Flight
49. 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.
Industrial Unionism
Civil Rights Movement
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Social Mobility
50. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Isolationism
Medicaid
Homesteaders