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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Subprime Mortgage
Cold War
Tenant Farming
Court Packing Scheme
2. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Anti-Communism
Laissez-Faire
Great Society
Royal Colony
3. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E
Cabinet
Literacy Tests
Talkies
Contraband of War
4. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Family Values
Bicameral Legislature
Conflict Historiography
Muckrackers
5. The political act of leaving the Union. The Southern states formed their own country during 1860-1861 after they seceded from the United States.
Rugged Individualism
Installment Plans
Ratification
Secession
6. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Impressment
Talkies
Blacklist
Impeachment
7. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Political Machines
Domino Theory
Homesteaders
Teenagers
8. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Barbed Wire
Capitalism
Rugged Individualism
Protective Tariff
9. 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.
Theory of Perpetual Union
Loyalty Oaths
Loose Constructionist
Referendum
10. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Margin Buying
Teenagers
Bimetallists
Primogeniture
11. 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
Pragmatism
Dollar Diplomacy
Blacklist
Elastic Clause
12. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Capitalism
Social Gospel
Trusts
Theocracy
13. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the
Protectorate
Vietnam Revisionism
Social Mobility
Encomienda
14. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Hawks
Artsian
Great Society
Blue Laws
15. 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
Interchangeable Parts
Jim Crow
Sharecropping
16. 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
Guerrilla War
Impressment
Interchangeable Parts
Technological Unemployment
17. 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
Virtual Representation
Escalation
Injunction
Internal Improvements
18. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.
Judicial Review
Protective Tariff
Trusts
Compassionate Conservatism
19. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Abolitionism
Tenant Farming
Baby Boom
Yellow Journalism
20. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Impeachment
Bicameral Legislature
Excise Tax
21. A political system dominated by two parties. Voters reluctance to support third parties reinforces the two-party system. The first two-party system - dating back to the 1970s - included the Federalist and Republican Parties. The current two-party sys
Two-Party System
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Annexation
Unlawful Combatants
22. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Summit Meeting
Poll Tax
White Flight
Robber Baron
23. The mixed race of people that developed as a result of the intermarriage of the Spanish and Native American populations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Artsian
Mestizos
Theory of Perpetual Union
Scab
24. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Rock and Roll
Yellow-dog Contract
Culture Wars
New Frontier
25. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.
Domino Theory
Alliances
Independent Counsel
White Flight
26. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Social Gospel
Two-Party System
Appeasement
Telegraph
27. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.
Compassionate Conservatism
Bootleggers
Transcontinental Railway
Craft Unionism
28. Technique of the labor movement in the 1930s that entailed stopping work but not leaving the factory floor - as owners were not able to hire replacement workers so long as the workers occupied the shop floor.
Speakeasies
Impressment
Carpetbaggers
Sit-Down Strike
29. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
New Frontier
Sit-Ins
Hawks
Sit-Down Strike
30. 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
Bicameral Legislature
Blacklist
Domino Theory
Speakeasies
31. Opposition to communism. Extreme anti-communism was manifested in the "Red Scare" of the 1920s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Gender Gap
Anti-Communism
Cotton Gin
Jim Crow
32. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Democracy
Royal Colony
Guerrilla War
Self-Governing Colony
33. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.
Political Machines
Technological Unemployment
Delegated Powers
Boston Tea Party
34. 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
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Social Gospel
Juvenile Delinquency
Homesteaders
35. The political position that favors abortion on demand.
Pro-Choice
Specie Circular
Ratification
Direct Democracy
36. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.
Conflict Historiography
Compassionate Conservatism
Free Silverites
Cowboys
37. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta
Vertical Integration
Urban Riots
Reserved Powers Clause
Separation of Powers
38. 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
Initiative
Tenant Farming
Excise Tax
39. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove him or her from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t
Secession
Impeachment
McCarthyism
Robber Baron
40. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.
Primogeniture
Bimetallists
Veto
Guerrilla War
41. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
White Flight
Ecology
Appeasement
Loose Constructionist
42. A tax on imports (goods coming into a country). Tariffs were advocated by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 and favored by the supporters of the American System to pay for internal improvements and protect US industry. Tariffs were often a main issue in Jac
Suburbia
Conflict Historiography
Division of Powers
Tariff
43. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Subprime Mortgage
Compassionate Conservatism
White Flight
Doves
44. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Separation of Powers
Ecology
Installment Plans
Progressive Movement
45. 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
Alliances
Contraband of War
Patroonship
46. 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.
Court Packing Scheme
Medicaid
Democracy
Industrial Unionism
47. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Manifest Destiny
Bicameral Legislature
Cold War
Backlash
48. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.
Speakeasies
McCarthyism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Talkies
49. 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
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Tariff
New Left
Backlash
50. Reading tests required in some Southern states before people were allowed to register to vote. They were mainly intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
Barbed Wire
Theocracy
Dollar Diplomacy
Literacy Tests