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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Interstate Commerce
Protective Tariff
Secession
Elastic Clause
2. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.
Democracy
Laissez-Faire
War on Poverty
Isolationism
3. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Vertical Integration
Dollar Diplomacy
Secession
Homesteaders
4. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Muckrackers
Two-Party System
Teenagers
New Immigration
5. 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.
Patroonship
Jim Crow
Laissez-Faire
Social Mobility
6. 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
Domino Theory
Colonization
Specie Circular
Civil Rights Movement
7. 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
Trusts
Speculation
Protective Tariff
8. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
White Flight
Impressment
Unicameral Legislature
Trusts
9. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Social Gospel
Short-staple Cotton
Technological Unemployment
10. 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.
Sit-Ins
Jim Crow
Vietnam Revisionism
Ecology
11. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Bootleggers
Democracy
Intrastate Commerce
Artsian
12. 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
Literacy Tests
Domino Theory
Popular Sovereignty
Yellow-dog Contract
13. 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
Blacklist
Conflict Historiography
Imperialism
Temperance Movement
14. 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
Injunction
Yellow Journalism
Sit-Down Strike
Impeachment
15. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Progressive Movement
Scalawags
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Laissez-Faire
16. 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.
Navigation Acts
Short-staple Cotton
Joint Stock Company
Teach-Ins
17. A country whose affairs are partly controlled by a stronger country. The US established several protectorates - such as Cuba - in the 20th century.
Stagflation
Protectorate
Guerrilla War
Jim Crow
18. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
Hawks
Technological Unemployment
Culture Wars
19. 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.
Annexation
Indentured Servitude
Short-staple Cotton
Pro-Life
20. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Bicameral Legislature
Advertising
Blacklist
Yellow-dog Contract
21. The building of canals - railroads - and turnpikes at state or federal expense. These were part of the American Plan - which became an important part of the Whig program of the 1830s. Internal improvements were also supported by the National Republic
Internal Improvements
Laissez-Faire
Encomienda
Homesteaders
22. 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.
McCarthyism
Pragmatism
Bailouts
Impeachment
23. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Kyoto Protocol
Impeachment
Backlash
24. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.
Unlawful Combatants
Excise Tax
Bootleggers
Isolationism
25. A type of adjustable-rate mortgage - often requiring no down payment - offered to customers with risky credit ratings. The lending institution makes money by steadily increasing interest payments.
Theocracy
Internal Improvements
Tariff
Subprime Mortgage
26. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Pragmatism
Specie Circular
Secession
Confederation
27. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Jim Crow
Ethnic Cleansing
Pro-Life
War on Poverty
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
Reserved Powers Clause
Royal Colony
New Left
Confederation
29. 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
Black Codes
Division of Powers
Sit-Ins
30. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Free Silverites
Alliances
White Flight
Compassionate Conservatism
31. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Anthracite Coal
Black Codes
Progressive Movement
Subprime Mortgage
32. 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.
Democracy
Kyoto Protocol
Containment
Escalation
33. 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.
Compact Theory
Self-Governing Colony
Cold War
Suburbia
34. 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.
Veto
Loyalty Oaths
Judicial Review
Referendum
35. A land policy developed in the 1600s in Virginia and Maryland designed to encourage settlement in the New World. It promised 50 acres to any person who paid his own passage to the New World. It also promised an additional 50 acres to any person who p
Unlawful Combatants
Yellow Journalism
Headright System
Anthracite Coal
36. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Pro-Choice
Mass Production
Nationalism
37. President Roosevelt's (FDR) attempt in 1936 to push a judicial reform bill through Congress that would allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal.
Specie Circular
Cowboys
Court Packing Scheme
Secession
38. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Literacy Tests
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Speculation
Self-Governing Colony
39. 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.
Baby Boom
Black Power
Horizontal Integration
Delegated Powers
40. 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.
Loose Constructionist
Artsian
Nationalism
Gender Gap
41. 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
Interstate Commerce
Joint Stock Company
Kyoto Protocol
Imperialism
42. 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
Judicial Review
Assembly Line
Sit-Down Strike
Artsian
43. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Imperialism
Escalation
Hawks
44. 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.
Blue Laws
Temperance Movement
Sharecropping
Sit-Down Strike
45. 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
Assembly Line
Planter
Muckrackers
Temperance Movement
46. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Installment Plans
Political Machines
Talkies
Headright System
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
Interstate Commerce
Manifest Destiny
Margin Buying
Injunction
48. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans
Great Society
Yellow-dog Contract
Encomienda
Imperialism
49. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Temperance Movement
Bush Doctrine
Specie Circular
Assembly Line
50. 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
Laissez-Faire
Free Labor
Sharecropping
Domino Theory