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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Progressive Movement
Interchangeable Parts
Literacy Tests
Unicameral Legislature
2. 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
Civil Rights Movement
Planter
Bootleggers
Popular Sovereignty
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.
Backlash
Speakeasies
Free Silverites
Progressive Movement
4. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Bicameral Legislature
Mestizos
Boston Tea Party
Short-staple Cotton
5. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Culture of the Quarters
Muckrackers
Blue Laws
Grandfather Clauses
6. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Anti-Communism
Consumer Society
Protectorate
Boston Tea Party
7. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Theocracy
Installment Plans
Juvenile Delinquency
Jim Crow
8. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Primogeniture
Militarism
White Flight
Trusts
9. 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.
Telegraph
Cowboys
Impressment
Bootleggers
10. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Self-Governing Colony
Compact Theory
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Transcontinental Railway
11. An economic system in which a colony exists for the good of the mother country. The colony's role is to provide raw materials for the mother country (especially products that the mother country cannot produce itself) and serve as a market for the goo
Capitalism
Temperance Movement
Excise Tax
Mercantilism
12. 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
Two-Party System
Political Machines
Navigation Acts
Interstate Commerce
13. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Impeachment
Gender Gap
Summit Meeting
Trusts
14. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Scab
Bicameral Legislature
Mestizos
Proprietary Colony
15. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Socialism
Realist Movement
Bootleggers
Unions
16. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Mercantilism
Ethnic Cleansing
Blue Laws
Free Labor
17. 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
Protective Tariff
Nativism
Speculation
Self-Governing Colony
18. 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.
Domino Theory
Internal Improvements
Free Silverites
Initiative
19. 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
Advertising
Free Soil Position
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Separation of Powers
20. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Installment Plans
Puppet Regimes
Bicameral Legislature
Theory of Perpetual Union
21. 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.
Spoils System
Progressive Movement
Backlash
Referendum
22. 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
Guerrilla War
Colonization
White Flight
Yellow Journalism
23. A person who believes in the broad interpretation of the US Constitution; that is - that the Constitution does not have to be interpreted word by word. Alexander Hamilton supported this idea.
Sit-Ins
Loose Constructionist
Joint Stock Company
Blue Laws
24. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Proprietary Colony
Veto
Bootleggers
Technological Unemployment
25. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Homesteaders
Doves
Contraband of War
26. 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.
Bootleggers
Free Labor
Yellow Journalism
Ratification
27. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Excise Tax
Bicameral Legislature
Blue Laws
Industrial Unionism
28. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Cowboys
Anthracite Coal
Interchangeable Parts
Pro-Choice
29. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Assembly Line
Boston Tea Party
Protectorate
Talkies
30. 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.
Reserved Powers Clause
Spoils System
Kyoto Protocol
Militarism
31. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Family Values
Kyoto Protocol
Juvenile Delinquency
Reserved Powers Clause
32. 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
Backlash
Industrial Unionism
Internal Improvements
Realist Movement
33. 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.
Domino Theory
Progressive Movement
Socialism
Reserved Powers Clause
34. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Blacklist
Conflict Historiography
Black Power
35. 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.
White Flight
Strict Constructionist
Literacy Tests
War on Poverty
36. 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.
Protective Tariff
Annexation
Mercantilism
Cabinet
37. 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
Domino Theory
Civil Rights Movement
Blue Laws
Sit-Ins
38. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Delegated Powers
Craft Unionism
Bailouts
Socialism
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.
Medicaid
Excise Tax
Navigation Acts
Kyoto Protocol
40. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Free Soil Position
Short-staple Cotton
Impeachment
Laissez-Faire
41. The political belief that America's obvious future was to "o'er spread the continent -" in the words of John O'Sullivan in 1846. A corollary was that Americans would bring democracy to the "ignorant and inferior" peoples of the West. The Mexican War
Assembly Line
Horizontal Integration
Manifest Destiny
Puppet Regimes
42. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Nonaggression Treaty
Patroonship
Teach-Ins
Blacklist
43. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Patroonship
Isolationism
Lynching
Navigation Acts
44. 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.
Artsian
Independent Counsel
New Frontier
Short-staple Cotton
45. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.
Cold War
Blacklist
Free Soil Position
Impeachment
46. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Subprime Mortgage
Referendum
Two-Party System
Weapons of Mass Destruction
47. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Muckrackers
Anthracite Coal
Interstate Commerce
New Frontier
48. 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
Militarism
Division of Powers
Subprime Mortgage
Speculation
49. 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.
Transcontinental Railway
Teach-Ins
Delegated Powers
Manifest Destiny
50. 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.
Escalation
Judicial Review
Impeachment
Virtual Representation