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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Vertical Integration
Ratification
Boston Tea Party
Second Reconstruction
2. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Virtual Representation
Supply-Side Economics
Nationalism
Stagflation
3. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Salutary Neglect
Excise Tax
Homesteaders
Teach-Ins
4. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Independent Counsel
Cold War
Craft Unionism
Guerrilla War
5. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Checks and Balances
Medicaid
Vietnam Revisionism
6. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Pro-Choice
Gender Gap
Jim Crow
Direct Primary
7. 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
Progressive Movement
Anti-Communism
Two-Party System
8. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Free Silverites
Free Labor
Unicameral Legislature
Judicial Review
9. 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.
Pro-Life
Unlawful Combatants
Anti-Communism
Navigation Acts
10. 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
Headright System
White Flight
Doves
Political Machines
11. 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
Urban Riots
Salutary Neglect
Cotton Gin
Appeasement
12. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Direct Primary
Joint Stock Company
Industrial Unionism
13. 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
Direct Democracy
Advertising
Injunction
Nativism
14. 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
Capitalism
Mass Production
McCarthyism
Court Packing Scheme
15. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Puppet Regimes
Grandfather Clauses
Internal Improvements
Contraband of War
16. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Virtual Representation
Abolitionism
Carpetbaggers
Cabinet
17. 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.
Homesteaders
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Ratification
18. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Margin Buying
Lynching
Interchangeable Parts
Theory of Perpetual Union
19. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Compassionate Conservatism
Kyoto Protocol
Headright System
Protectorate
20. Historiography is the study of how history is written. Historians in the 1950s-consensus historians-in general argued that America was the world's great democracy that only did good in the world and had no conflicts at home. Largely due to the effort
Isolationism
Conflict Historiography
Short-staple Cotton
Sharecropping
21. Machine-made or standardized parts that could be put together to make a product. Eli Whitney demonstrated to President John Adams in 1801 how a box of guns could be disassembled and reassembled randomly. Each part must be precision-made so that it wi
Impeachment
Free Labor
Interchangeable Parts
Injunction
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.
Strict Constructionist
Temperance Movement
Court Packing Scheme
Black Codes
23. A prosecutor chosen by a panel of three judges (appointed by the attorney general) to investigate wrongdoing in the executive branch. Established after the Watergate Scandal - the role was designed to prevent conflict of interest within the executive
Independent Counsel
Veto
Backlash
Theory of Perpetual Union
24. 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.
Protective Tariff
Cold War
Vertical Integration
War on Terror
25. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Confederation
Unions
Protective Tariff
Black Codes
26. 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.
Bicameral Legislature
Sit-Ins
Temperance Movement
Scalawags
27. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Domino Theory
Medicaid
Separation of Powers
Culture Wars
28. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Sharecropping
Margin Buying
Settlement House Movement
Homesteaders
29. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
White Flight
Free Silverites
Puppet Regimes
Doves
30. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Two-Party System
Interchangeable Parts
Yellow-dog Contract
31. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Family Values
Compassionate Conservatism
Socialism
Bicameral Legislature
32. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Black Power
Impeachment
Laissez-Faire
Yellow-dog Contract
33. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Pro-Choice
Ethnic Cleansing
Robber Baron
Weapons of Mass Destruction
34. 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
Assembly Line
Blue Laws
Secession
35. 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.
Vertical Integration
Tenant Farming
Democracy
Loose Constructionist
36. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Installment Plans
Bootleggers
Cold War
New Immigration
37. 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
Speakeasies
Loose Constructionist
Teach-Ins
38. 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
Poll Tax
Secession
Black Power
Mercantilism
39. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.
Protective Tariff
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Progressive Movement
Realist Movement
40. 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
Pragmatism
Cotton Gin
Boston Tea Party
Nativism
41. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Speakeasies
Industrial Unionism
Blacklist
Nativism
42. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Medicare
Isolationism
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Margin Buying
43. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Manifest Destiny
Impeachment
Family Values
Speculation
44. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Rugged Individualism
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Barbed Wire
45. 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.
New Immigration
Domino Theory
Free Silverites
Doves
46. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Protectorate
White Flight
Advertising
Bimetallists
47. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Supply-Side Economics
Loyalty Oaths
Planter
Division of Powers
48. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Artsian
Realist Movement
War on Terror
Separation of Powers
49. 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
Initiative
Delegated Powers
Sit-Down Strike
Sit-Ins
50. 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 Gospel
Independent Counsel
Social Mobility
Compact Theory
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