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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Sharecropping
Dollar Diplomacy
Speakeasies
Cowboys
2. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Excise Tax
Teach-Ins
Sit-Down Strike
Muckrackers
3. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
New Immigration
Trusts
Speculation
Scab
4. 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
Unions
Indentured Servitude
Planter
Nativism
5. 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
Contraband of War
Margin Buying
Judicial Review
Imperialism
6. 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
Pro-Choice
Bailouts
Mercantilism
Strict Constructionist
7. 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
Free Labor
Vertical Integration
Medicaid
8. 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 Silverites
Short-staple Cotton
Navigation Acts
Lynching
9. 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.
Anti-Communism
Proprietary Colony
Delegated Powers
Craft Unionism
10. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railway
Loyalty Oaths
Kyoto Protocol
Independent Counsel
11. 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.
Direct Democracy
Court Packing Scheme
White Flight
War on Terror
12. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Blue Laws
McCarthyism
Impressment
Patroonship
13. Popular music genre - with roots in African American rhythm and blues and "doo-wop." It developed in the 1950s and was popularized by Elvis Presley.
Poll Tax
Free Silverites
Rock and Roll
Elastic Clause
14. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Horizontal Integration
Scab
Spoils System
Interstate Commerce
15. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Patroonship
Contraband of War
Compassionate Conservatism
Universal Suffrage
16. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.
Assembly Line
Supply-Side Economics
Baby Boom
Blacklist
17. Labor in which the worker can leave whenever he or she wishes (as opposed to slave labor). Wage labor or work for pay is free labor.
New Immigration
Civil Rights Movement
Free Labor
Protective Tariff
18. 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.
Spoils System
Yellow-dog Contract
Separation of Powers
White Flight
19. 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
Laissez-Faire
Conflict Historiography
Poll Tax
New Left
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
Cowboys
Conflict Historiography
Poll Tax
Social Mobility
21. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Mercantilism
Free Silverites
Loyalty Oaths
Socialism
22. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.
Interchangeable Parts
Baby Boom
Appeasement
Suburbia
23. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Annexation
Separation of Powers
Unicameral Legislature
Barbed Wire
24. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Primogeniture
Summit Meeting
Scab
Mortgage-Backed Securities
25. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Judicial Review
Supply-Side Economics
Primogeniture
26. 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
Culture Wars
Bicameral Legislature
Nativism
Joint Stock Company
27. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Imperialism
Hawks
Compassionate Conservatism
Direct Democracy
28. 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
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Transcontinental Railway
Culture Wars
Mestizos
29. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Alliances
Rugged Individualism
Mass Production
Protective Tariff
30. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Baby Boom
Internal Improvements
Urban Riots
Unions
31. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Compact Theory
Loyalty Oaths
Second Wave of Feminism
Ratification
32. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
Scalawags
Yellow-dog Contract
Royal Colony
33. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Free Blacks
Salutary Neglect
Virtual Representation
Isolationism
34. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.
Containment
Trusts
Telegraph
Social Mobility
35. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.
Sharecropping
New Left
Speakeasies
Joint Stock Company
36. 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
Backlash
Homesteaders
Imperialism
Hawks
37. Philosophical movement - with deep roots in the United States - which holds that truth emerges from experimentation and experience rather than from abstract theory. it is associated with William James and John Dewey.
Assembly Line
Culture Wars
Referendum
Pragmatism
38. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Court Packing Scheme
Protectorate
Free Blacks
Specie Circular
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.
Contraband of War
Navigation Acts
Talkies
Division of Powers
40. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Tariff
Homesteaders
Talkies
Assembly Line
41. 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
Culture Wars
Assembly Line
Rugged Individualism
Alliances
42. 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
Mercantilism
Checks and Balances
Encomienda
Bimetallists
43. 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.
Impeachment
Isolationism
Culture Wars
Gender Gap
44. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Escalation
Baby Boom
Joint Stock Company
Strict Constructionist
45. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Advertising
Scalawags
Compassionate Conservatism
Second Reconstruction
46. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Industrial Unionism
Confederation
Intrastate Commerce
Dollar Diplomacy
47. 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
Compact Theory
Talkies
Margin Buying
Navigation Acts
48. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.
Black Power
Bush Doctrine
Free Silverites
Muckrackers
49. 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
Teach-Ins
Family Values
Mass Production
Vietnam Revisionism
50. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Conflict Historiography
Virtual Representation
Medicaid
Doves
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