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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Sharecropping
Second Reconstruction
New Immigration
Jim Crow
2. 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.
Vietnam Revisionism
Independent Counsel
Sit-Down Strike
Patroonship
3. 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.
Delegated Powers
Militarism
Annexation
Progressive Movement
4. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Spoils System
Socialism
Indentured Servitude
Carpetbaggers
5. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Free Silverites
Pro-Life
Craft Unionism
Medicare
6. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Second Wave of Feminism
New Immigration
Bimetallists
Hawks
7. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Navigation Acts
Blue Laws
Isolationism
Delegated Powers
8. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Free Labor
Patroonship
Abolitionism
Protective Tariff
9. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Industrial Unionism
Blacklist
Initiative
10. 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
Second Wave of Feminism
Transcontinental Railway
Scab
Initiative
11. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Abolitionism
Compassionate Conservatism
Mestizos
Impeachment
12. 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
Homesteaders
Colonization
Escalation
Socialism
13. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Robber Baron
Installment Plans
Unions
Militarism
14. 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.
Veto
Salutary Neglect
Supply-Side Economics
Two-Party System
15. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Free Silverites
Pragmatism
Alliances
Theocracy
16. 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
Yellow-dog Contract
Impeachment
Initiative
Isolationism
17. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Unicameral Legislature
Contraband of War
Technological Unemployment
Doves
18. The political idea that the West should be free of slavery. In 1846 - David Wilmot wrote the proviso that there "shall be no slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory acquired from Mexico -" which galvanized the antislavery forces in Congress
Virtual Representation
Secession
Guerrilla War
Free Soil Position
19. The study of the environment.
Cotton Gin
Ecology
Juvenile Delinquency
Impressment
20. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Tariff
Blacklist
Rugged Individualism
Culture Wars
21. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Assembly Line
Bicameral Legislature
Cotton Gin
Ethnic Cleansing
22. 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.
Great Society
Sit-Down Strike
Homesteaders
Court Packing Scheme
23. 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
Democracy
Impeachment
Nationalism
Bicameral Legislature
24. 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
Imperialism
Popular Sovereignty
Vietnam Revisionism
Blue Laws
25. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Joint Stock Company
Kyoto Protocol
Strict Constructionist
Summit Meeting
26. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Injunction
Kyoto Protocol
Loose Constructionist
Homesteaders
27. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Proprietary Colony
Medicaid
Craft Unionism
Guerrilla War
28. 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
Muckrackers
Craft Unionism
Social Mobility
Theory of Perpetual Union
29. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Muckrackers
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Jim Crow
Installment Plans
30. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Specie Circular
War on Poverty
Free Soil Position
Bicameral Legislature
31. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Great Society
Excise Tax
Alliances
Reserved Powers Clause
32. 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.
Militarism
Loyalty Oaths
Bush Doctrine
Imperialism
33. Blacks who had been freed from slavery or were not born slaves. They lived in the cities and countryside in both the North and the South. In 1860 - there were about 500 -000 free blacks evenly distributed between the North and the South.
Bootleggers
Free Blacks
Medicare
Supply-Side Economics
34. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Technological Unemployment
Socialism
Imperialism
35. 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
Talkies
Blue Laws
Salutary Neglect
Internal Improvements
36. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Specie Circular
Puppet Regimes
Tenant Farming
War on Terror
37. 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
Cotton Gin
Self-Governing Colony
Conflict Historiography
Direct Primary
38. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Navigation Acts
Pro-Life
Trusts
Talkies
39. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Cabinet
Internal Improvements
Alliances
40. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
Injunction
Culture Wars
Horizontal Integration
41. 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
Supply-Side Economics
Navigation Acts
Barbed Wire
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
Alliances
Secession
Domino Theory
Cotton Gin
43. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Initiative
Speakeasies
Second Wave of Feminism
Medicaid
44. 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.
Socialism
Impressment
Advertising
Sharecropping
45. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Socialism
Sharecropping
Theocracy
Poll Tax
46. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Consumer Society
Confederation
Planter
Loyalty Oaths
47. 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.
Strict Constructionist
Sharecropping
Division of Powers
Telegraph
48. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Short-staple Cotton
Laissez-Faire
Margin Buying
Intrastate Commerce
49. 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
Gender Gap
Delegated Powers
Short-staple Cotton
Capitalism
50. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.
Annexation
Kyoto Protocol
Loyalty Oaths
Sit-Ins