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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.
Patroonship
Margin Buying
Self-Governing Colony
Annexation
2. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Ecology
Supply-Side Economics
Social Gospel
Containment
3. 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
Unions
Capitalism
Grandfather Clauses
Secession
4. 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.
Consumer Society
Spoils System
Nationalism
Dollar Diplomacy
5. 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.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Socialism
Vertical Integration
Industrial Unionism
6. 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.
Literacy Tests
Imperialism
Civil Rights Movement
Popular Sovereignty
7. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Universal Suffrage
Initiative
Poll Tax
Direct Primary
8. 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.
Militarism
Primogeniture
New Frontier
Mestizos
9. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Ethnic Cleansing
Free Silverites
Royal Colony
Rugged Individualism
10. 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.
Consumer Society
Colonization
Temperance Movement
Reserved Powers Clause
11. 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.
Poll Tax
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Appeasement
Spoils System
12. 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
Containment
Social Gospel
Guerrilla War
McCarthyism
13. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action
Summit Meeting
Free Blacks
Stagflation
Judicial Review
14. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Grandfather Clauses
Loyalty Oaths
Mercantilism
Unicameral Legislature
15. 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
Salutary Neglect
Gender Gap
Cotton Gin
War on Poverty
16. The study of the environment.
Ecology
Supply-Side Economics
Barbed Wire
Transcontinental Railway
17. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Speculation
Tenant Farming
Virtual Representation
Direct Primary
18. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Nonaggression Treaty
Industrial Unionism
Compassionate Conservatism
Universal Manhood Suffrage
19. The process of acquiring new territories
Ethnic Cleansing
Annexation
Nativism
Specie Circular
20. The difference in the votes of men and women. Often men vote Republican in larger numbers that women - who are more likely to vote Democratic - producing a gender gap.
Summit Meeting
McCarthyism
Nationalism
Gender Gap
21. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen
Vietnam Revisionism
Jim Crow
Protective Tariff
Craft Unionism
22. 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.
Cowboys
Joint Stock Company
Colonization
Escalation
23. 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.
Barbed Wire
Short-staple Cotton
Isolationism
Teenagers
24. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Teenagers
Social Gospel
Sit-Down Strike
Separation of Powers
25. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Colonization
Direct Democracy
Specie Circular
Stagflation
26. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
McCarthyism
Initiative
Specie Circular
Separation of Powers
27. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Rugged Individualism
Reserved Powers Clause
Imperialism
28. 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
Talkies
Nonaggression Treaty
Advertising
29. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Nativism
Civil Rights Movement
Ratification
Urban Riots
30. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Protectorate
Planter
Compact Theory
Poll Tax
31. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Isolationism
Elastic Clause
Tenant Farming
Doves
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
Loyalty Oaths
Rugged Individualism
Hawks
Yellow-dog Contract
33. 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.
Pragmatism
Domino Theory
McCarthyism
Technological Unemployment
34. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Sit-Ins
Reserved Powers Clause
Appeasement
Headright System
35. 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
Strict Constructionist
Political Machines
Joint Stock Company
Cold War
36. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Internal Improvements
Proprietary Colony
Theocracy
Realist Movement
37. 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.
Imperialism
Scalawags
Proprietary Colony
Speakeasies
38. 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.
Literacy Tests
Proprietary Colony
Free Silverites
Scab
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.
Protective Tariff
Navigation Acts
Speculation
Free Labor
40. 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.
Political Machines
Division of Powers
Cabinet
Black Codes
41. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Suburbia
Theocracy
Ethnic Cleansing
Protective Tariff
42. 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
War on Poverty
Culture Wars
Sit-Ins
New Left
43. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Sit-Ins
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Medicare
Blacklist
44. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Annexation
Planter
Veto
Tenant Farming
45. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Pragmatism
Delegated Powers
Socialism
Juvenile Delinquency
46. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go
Temperance Movement
Teach-Ins
Second Reconstruction
Scab
47. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Royal Colony
Isolationism
Lynching
48. 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
Sit-Down Strike
Second Wave of Feminism
Loyalty Oaths
Great Society
49. 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.
Progressive Movement
Sharecropping
Headright System
Patroonship
50. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
War on Terror
Cabinet
Excise Tax
Interstate Commerce