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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Second Reconstruction
Yellow-dog Contract
Supply-Side Economics
Planter
2. 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
Strict Constructionist
Vertical Integration
Universal Suffrage
Assembly Line
3. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.
Reserved Powers Clause
Second Reconstruction
Great Society
Excise Tax
4. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Second Wave of Feminism
Laissez-Faire
Secession
Injunction
5. 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
Contraband of War
Rugged Individualism
Colonization
Proprietary Colony
6. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte
Trusts
Court Packing Scheme
Indentured Servitude
Social Mobility
7. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Pragmatism
Patroonship
Socialism
Direct Primary
8. 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
Carpetbaggers
Domino Theory
Free Silverites
Jim Crow
9. 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
Direct Primary
Mestizos
Family Values
Direct Democracy
10. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Delegated Powers
Cabinet
Free Silverites
11. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Impeachment
Blacklist
Medicaid
Delegated Powers
12. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced
Margin Buying
Democracy
Culture of the Quarters
White Flight
13. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Trusts
Isolationism
Primogeniture
Gender Gap
14. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Black Codes
Checks and Balances
Compact Theory
Assembly Line
15. 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
Division of Powers
Independent Counsel
Alliances
Pro-Choice
16. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Homesteaders
Imperialism
Transcontinental Railway
Excise Tax
17. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an
Black Power
Stagflation
Abolitionism
Muckrackers
18. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Cotton Gin
Installment Plans
Pro-Choice
New Left
19. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som
Backlash
Appeasement
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Suburbia
20. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market
Conflict Historiography
Margin Buying
Bailouts
Nationalism
21. 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.
Political Machines
Theory of Perpetual Union
Free Silverites
Culture Wars
22. 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
Boston Tea Party
Sit-Ins
Scalawags
Indentured Servitude
23. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Speculation
Royal Colony
Consumer Society
Baby Boom
24. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Cowboys
Self-Governing Colony
Assembly Line
25. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Impressment
Self-Governing Colony
Laissez-Faire
Headright System
26. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Blue Laws
Baby Boom
Confederation
Yellow Journalism
27. 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.
Appeasement
Medicaid
Kyoto Protocol
Anthracite Coal
28. Organizations - such as the underground press - Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoots - and women's groups (like the Red Stockings) - that were interested in social change but uninterested in the debates over whether to support Russia a
New Left
Blue Laws
Loose Constructionist
Artsian
29. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Protectorate
Medicare
Impeachment
Bootleggers
30. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Vietnam Revisionism
Headright System
Rock and Roll
Muckrackers
31. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Nonaggression Treaty
Socialism
Vertical Integration
32. 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.
Hawks
Loose Constructionist
Strict Constructionist
Spoils System
33. 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.
Confederation
Loose Constructionist
Imperialism
Rugged Individualism
34. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Dollar Diplomacy
Hawks
Anthracite Coal
Vietnam Revisionism
35. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Unions
Blacklist
Backlash
Pragmatism
36. 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
Free Soil Position
Bimetallists
New Immigration
Primogeniture
37. 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
Sharecropping
Scalawags
Nativism
Impeachment
38. 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
Homesteaders
Referendum
Division of Powers
39. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Mass Production
Loose Constructionist
Stagflation
Spoils System
40. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Baby Boom
Urban Riots
Barbed Wire
Free Soil Position
41. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Loose Constructionist
Judicial Review
Artsian
Summit Meeting
42. Lincoln's contention that the Union pre-existed the Constitution because it began with the Articles of Association in 1774-since the states had signed on to that document - the Union could not be broken. He discussed this theory in his first inaugura
Vietnam Revisionism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Theory of Perpetual Union
Cowboys
43. 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
Culture Wars
Rock and Roll
White Flight
Compact Theory
44. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Supply-Side Economics
Lynching
Excise Tax
Patroonship
45. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Urban Riots
War on Poverty
Nonaggression Treaty
Barbed Wire
46. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
Ethnic Cleansing
Impeachment
Interstate Commerce
47. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during
Cold War
New Left
Bailouts
Colonization
48. 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
Royal Colony
Alliances
Impressment
Protective Tariff
49. 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.
Speculation
Spoils System
Short-staple Cotton
Delegated Powers
50. 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.
Temperance Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Bimetallists
Separation of Powers
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