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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Indentured Servitude
Guerrilla War
Internal Improvements
Summit Meeting
2. 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.
Advertising
Loose Constructionist
Literacy Tests
New Immigration
3. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
White Flight
Yellow Journalism
Social Gospel
Elastic Clause
4. 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
Impeachment
Subprime Mortgage
Nonaggression Treaty
Reserved Powers Clause
5. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Cotton Gin
Rock and Roll
Bailouts
Muckrackers
6. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Laissez-Faire
Impeachment
Independent Counsel
Short-staple Cotton
7. 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
Patroonship
Settlement House Movement
Abolitionism
Self-Governing Colony
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
Domino Theory
Ratification
Unions
Mercantilism
9. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Medicare
Second Wave of Feminism
Direct Democracy
Black Power
10. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Laissez-Faire
Summit Meeting
Scalawags
Subprime Mortgage
11. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Encomienda
Homesteaders
Lynching
Medicaid
12. 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.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Free Soil Position
Navigation Acts
War on Terror
13. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Cowboys
Culture of the Quarters
Secession
Juvenile Delinquency
14. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Joint Stock Company
Realist Movement
Dollar Diplomacy
Containment
15. 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.
Advertising
Bicameral Legislature
Pro-Life
Progressive Movement
16. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Free Blacks
Initiative
Transcontinental Railway
Juvenile Delinquency
17. 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
Craft Unionism
Direct Democracy
Contraband of War
18. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Bootleggers
Bimetallists
Poll Tax
19. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.
Free Silverites
Imperialism
Self-Governing Colony
Ecology
20. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Carpetbaggers
Rugged Individualism
Summit Meeting
Ethnic Cleansing
21. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Culture Wars
Protective Tariff
Cotton Gin
Tenant Farming
22. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Settlement House Movement
Imperialism
Talkies
23. 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
Juvenile Delinquency
Two-Party System
Sit-Ins
Capitalism
24. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Advertising
Alliances
Containment
Consciousness-Raising Groups
25. 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.
Blue Laws
Ecology
Proprietary Colony
Independent Counsel
26. 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
Margin Buying
Short-staple Cotton
Jim Crow
Speculation
27. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
New Immigration
Homesteaders
Medicare
Imperialism
28. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.
Sharecropping
Black Codes
Trusts
Impeachment
29. 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.
Nationalism
Vertical Integration
Interchangeable Parts
Bootleggers
30. The political position that opposes abortion.
Pro-Life
Imperialism
White Flight
Culture of the Quarters
31. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Jim Crow
Secession
Medicaid
Colonization
32. 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
Hawks
Assembly Line
Supply-Side Economics
Robber Baron
33. 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
Bootleggers
Bush Doctrine
Cold War
Culture Wars
34. 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
Contraband of War
Sharecropping
Socialism
Family Values
35. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Suburbia
Protective Tariff
Jim Crow
Hawks
36. 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
Craft Unionism
Colonization
Popular Sovereignty
War on Poverty
37. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Carpetbaggers
Artsian
Patroonship
Telegraph
38. 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
Urban Riots
Family Values
Manifest Destiny
Unlawful Combatants
39. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Cowboys
Protective Tariff
Backlash
Free Blacks
40. This clause - found in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution - allows Congress to make laws not specifically delegated to it by the Constitution but that may be "necessary and proper" to carry out its delegated powers. (Als
Encomienda
Assembly Line
Elastic Clause
Colonization
41. 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
Assembly Line
Manifest Destiny
Court Packing Scheme
42. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.
Literacy Tests
Progressive Movement
Conflict Historiography
Intrastate Commerce
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.
Protective Tariff
War on Poverty
Black Codes
Speculation
44. 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
Baby Boom
Cotton Gin
Vietnam Revisionism
Intrastate Commerce
45. 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
Popular Sovereignty
Talkies
Artsian
Reserved Powers Clause
46. 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.
Judicial Review
Nativism
Literacy Tests
Imperialism
47. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.
Rock and Roll
Jim Crow
Planter
Democracy
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
Boston Tea Party
Loose Constructionist
War on Terror
Division of Powers
49. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Compassionate Conservatism
Ratification
Carpetbaggers
Ecology
50. 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
Industrial Unionism
Teach-Ins
Escalation
Grandfather Clauses