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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Impressment
Pro-Life
Family Values
McCarthyism
2. The political position that opposes abortion.
Doves
Pro-Life
Progressive Movement
Family Values
3. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Socialism
Anti-Communism
Veto
4. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Scalawags
Domino Theory
Independent Counsel
Muckrackers
5. 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
Cotton Gin
Injunction
Juvenile Delinquency
New Left
6. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Loose Constructionist
Intrastate Commerce
Stagflation
New Frontier
7. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Reserved Powers Clause
Bush Doctrine
Bimetallists
Yellow-dog Contract
8. 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.
Anti-Communism
Encomienda
Referendum
Black Power
9. 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.
Ratification
Technological Unemployment
Culture of the Quarters
Internal Improvements
10. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Gender Gap
Jim Crow
Bicameral Legislature
11. 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.
Independent Counsel
Escalation
Progressive Movement
Free Silverites
12. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Second Reconstruction
Social Gospel
Intrastate Commerce
Industrial Unionism
13. 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
Laissez-Faire
Technological Unemployment
Teach-Ins
Supply-Side Economics
14. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not
Imperialism
Unlawful Combatants
Yellow Journalism
Capitalism
15. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Political Machines
Secession
Realist Movement
Great Society
16. 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
Kyoto Protocol
Civil Rights Movement
Judicial Review
Advertising
17. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Imperialism
Jim Crow
Culture Wars
Patroonship
18. 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.
Puppet Regimes
Injunction
Vietnam Revisionism
Protectorate
19. The series of laws designed to create separation between the races. These were by and large Southern state laws made constitutional by the Supreme Court decision Plessy. v Ferguson in 1896.
Abolitionism
Ecology
Subprime Mortgage
Jim Crow
20. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Anthracite Coal
Sit-Ins
Scalawags
New Left
21. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Royal Colony
Anti-Communism
Transcontinental Railway
Imperialism
22. 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
New Immigration
Homesteaders
Virtual Representation
Division of Powers
23. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Checks and Balances
Juvenile Delinquency
Yellow Journalism
Barbed Wire
24. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Free Blacks
Great Society
Black Codes
Ratification
25. 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
Navigation Acts
Isolationism
Manifest Destiny
Popular Sovereignty
26. 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
Indentured Servitude
Domino Theory
Summit Meeting
Bailouts
27. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Medicare
Dollar Diplomacy
Supply-Side Economics
Urban Riots
28. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Manifest Destiny
Self-Governing Colony
Vietnam Revisionism
29. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Impeachment
Popular Sovereignty
Progressive Movement
30. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.
Direct Primary
Elastic Clause
Referendum
Yellow-dog Contract
31. 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
Industrial Unionism
Backlash
Gender Gap
32. 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
Short-staple Cotton
Industrial Unionism
Escalation
33. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Navigation Acts
Two-Party System
War on Poverty
Baby Boom
34. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Artsian
Royal Colony
Bootleggers
Cowboys
35. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.
Confederation
Gender Gap
Abolitionism
Strict Constructionist
36. 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
Interstate Commerce
Blue Laws
Abolitionism
Literacy Tests
37. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Elastic Clause
Virtual Representation
Primogeniture
Free Soil Position
38. 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.
Impressment
Cabinet
Protectorate
Artsian
39. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Nativism
Guerrilla War
Robber Baron
Annexation
40. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Alliances
Jim Crow
Colonization
Interstate Commerce
41. The organizations and events in the 20th century that collectively pressured federal - state - and local governments and businesses to grant equal rights to blacks and other minorities.
Lynching
Barbed Wire
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Movement
42. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.
Ecology
Militarism
Interchangeable Parts
Cowboys
43. 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
Democracy
Backlash
Barbed Wire
Mestizos
44. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Kyoto Protocol
Pro-Choice
Proprietary Colony
Boston Tea Party
45. 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.
Kyoto Protocol
Ethnic Cleansing
Capitalism
Imperialism
46. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
Mass Production
Grandfather Clauses
Weapons of Mass Destruction
47. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Nativism
Popular Sovereignty
Initiative
Royal Colony
48. 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
Veto
Poll Tax
Interchangeable Parts
Royal Colony
49. 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.
Poll Tax
Blacklist
Speculation
Imperialism
50. 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
Rugged Individualism
War on Terror
War on Poverty
Advertising