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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Homesteaders
Protective Tariff
Virtual Representation
Universal Suffrage
2. 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.
Free Labor
Short-staple Cotton
Democracy
Judicial Review
3. 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
Domino Theory
Appeasement
Escalation
Compassionate Conservatism
4. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.
Unlawful Combatants
New Immigration
Second Reconstruction
Imperialism
5. 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.
Loyalty Oaths
Technological Unemployment
Impressment
Ecology
6. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Gender Gap
Backlash
Margin Buying
7. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Anthracite Coal
White Flight
Social Gospel
Division of Powers
8. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Grandfather Clauses
McCarthyism
Separation of Powers
Unicameral Legislature
9. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
White Flight
Doves
Teenagers
Backlash
10. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Industrial Unionism
White Flight
Protectorate
Bush Doctrine
11. 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
Containment
Joint Stock Company
Rock and Roll
Artsian
12. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Reserved Powers Clause
Cowboys
Theocracy
Self-Governing Colony
13. 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.
Margin Buying
McCarthyism
Free Soil Position
Kyoto Protocol
14. The idea that the Constitution was created by the states and so the states could dissolve it. This was advocated first by Madison and Jefferson in 1798 in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and later by Robert Y Hayne in his debate with Daniel Web
Cotton Gin
Checks and Balances
Horizontal Integration
Compact Theory
15. The term denoting the ongoing military battle of the US and its allies against terrorism - first used by George W. Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks on September 11 - 2001.
War on Terror
Impeachment
Veto
Artsian
16. 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
Assembly Line
White Flight
Checks and Balances
17. 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.
Encomienda
Dollar Diplomacy
Popular Sovereignty
Loyalty Oaths
18. 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
Transcontinental Railway
Tenant Farming
Supply-Side Economics
Impeachment
19. 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.
Ethnic Cleansing
Blacklist
Excise Tax
Escalation
20. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Blacklist
Installment Plans
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Excise Tax
21. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Transcontinental Railway
Headright System
Medicare
Universal Suffrage
22. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Salutary Neglect
Summit Meeting
Containment
Puppet Regimes
23. 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
Family Values
Imperialism
Urban Riots
Compassionate Conservatism
24. 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
Imperialism
Pro-Choice
Alliances
Social Mobility
25. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Protectorate
Scab
Great Society
Democracy
26. 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.
New Immigration
Secession
Social Gospel
Mass Production
27. 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.
Vertical Integration
Socialism
Bootleggers
Veto
28. 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.
Alliances
White Flight
Speculation
Temperance Movement
29. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Proprietary Colony
Poll Tax
Confederation
Scalawags
30. The policy used by the British before the War of 1812 wherein the British stopped US vessels and removed sailors from them to be used on British naval vessels. it was also used to a limited extent by the French during this same period. It was one of
Unlawful Combatants
Transcontinental Railway
Impressment
Encomienda
31. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Patroonship
Excise Tax
Scalawags
Strict Constructionist
32. 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
Cabinet
Impeachment
Poll Tax
Nativism
33. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Settlement House Movement
Bailouts
Poll Tax
Manifest Destiny
34. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Protective Tariff
Unions
Isolationism
35. 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.
Medicare
Loose Constructionist
Boston Tea Party
Nativism
36. 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.
Veto
Proprietary Colony
Medicare
Poll Tax
37. 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.
Free Blacks
Temperance Movement
New Immigration
Impeachment
38. 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.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Cold War
Planter
Elastic Clause
39. 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.
Isolationism
Family Values
Primogeniture
Sit-Down Strike
40. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Isolationism
Ethnic Cleansing
Sit-Down Strike
Culture of the Quarters
41. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Protectorate
New Immigration
Homesteaders
42. The process of acquiring new territories
Kyoto Protocol
Speakeasies
Mercantilism
Annexation
43. 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
Imperialism
Temperance Movement
Two-Party System
Independent Counsel
44. 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
Universal Suffrage
Tenant Farming
Salutary Neglect
Democracy
45. 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
Teach-Ins
Reserved Powers Clause
Pro-Life
Free Soil Position
46. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Ecology
Black Codes
Vertical Integration
Virtual Representation
47. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Domino Theory
Secession
Bailouts
48. 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.
Socialism
Blue Laws
Teenagers
Loyalty Oaths
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.
Mestizos
Reserved Powers Clause
Sharecropping
Secession
50. A method of mass production whereby the products are moved from worker to worker - with each person performing a small - repetitive task on the product and sending it to the next for a different task until the finished item is assembled. In the 18th
Elastic Clause
Assembly Line
Compact Theory
War on Terror