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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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.
Backlash
Medicaid
Telegraph
Kyoto Protocol
2. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.
Bootleggers
Isolationism
Interchangeable Parts
Salutary Neglect
3. 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
Division of Powers
Ecology
Compassionate Conservatism
Tenant Farming
4. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.
Great Society
Ecology
Injunction
New Immigration
5. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
Jim Crow
Confederation
Alliances
Nativism
6. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Pro-Choice
Second Reconstruction
Boston Tea Party
Ethnic Cleansing
7. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.
Black Power
Pro-Choice
Realist Movement
Consumer Society
8. Anti-communism crusade of the 1950s led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was characterized by irresponsible accusations and smear campaigns.
Imperialism
Excise Tax
Sharecropping
McCarthyism
9. 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
Talkies
Second Wave of Feminism
Assembly Line
Bicameral Legislature
10. 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
Cotton Gin
McCarthyism
Judicial Review
Family Values
11. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.
Carpetbaggers
Excise Tax
Sharecropping
Installment Plans
12. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Isolationism
Industrial Unionism
Short-staple Cotton
Contraband of War
13. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Speculation
Horizontal Integration
Injunction
Judicial Review
14. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Black Power
Speculation
Domino Theory
Hawks
15. 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.
Blue Laws
Compact Theory
Black Power
Literacy Tests
16. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Black Codes
Pragmatism
Guerrilla War
Second Reconstruction
17. 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
Free Soil Position
Installment Plans
Abolitionism
Homesteaders
18. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Isolationism
Yellow Journalism
Virtual Representation
Black Codes
19. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.
Socialism
Poll Tax
Patroonship
Proprietary Colony
20. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Judicial Review
Direct Democracy
Mestizos
Anti-Communism
21. 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.
Strict Constructionist
Court Packing Scheme
Imperialism
Scab
22. 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
Theory of Perpetual Union
New Frontier
Nativism
Bicameral Legislature
23. 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
Encomienda
Annexation
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Bimetallists
24. 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
Rugged Individualism
Strict Constructionist
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Impeachment
25. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Bootleggers
Universal Suffrage
Guerrilla War
Abolitionism
26. The first wave was in the 1830s through the early 20th century when the radicals Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B. Anthony - and Lucretia Mott advocated equality - employment - education - and suffrage. The second wave - which advocated these same id
Second Wave of Feminism
Ethnic Cleansing
Puppet Regimes
Direct Democracy
27. 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.
Loyalty Oaths
Culture of the Quarters
Grandfather Clauses
New Left
28. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Black Power
Summit Meeting
Talkies
Interchangeable Parts
29. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Scalawags
Confederation
Boston Tea Party
30. 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
Conflict Historiography
Mass Production
Abolitionism
Free Blacks
31. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.
Mass Production
Sit-Ins
Isolationism
Industrial Unionism
32. 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.
Second Wave of Feminism
Pragmatism
Universal Suffrage
Headright System
33. 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.
Theocracy
Primogeniture
Self-Governing Colony
Democracy
34. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Unions
Virtual Representation
Backlash
35. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Unions
Blue Laws
Yellow Journalism
Checks and Balances
36. Powers given to the national/federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution. They are found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution and may also be known as expressed or enumerated powers.
Delegated Powers
Culture Wars
New Frontier
Literacy Tests
37. 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
Family Values
Telegraph
Popular Sovereignty
Teenagers
38. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Short-staple Cotton
Black Codes
Initiative
Family Values
39. 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.
Division of Powers
Second Reconstruction
Bailouts
Progressive Movement
40. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Guerrilla War
Bootleggers
Separation of Powers
Anthracite Coal
41. 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
Baby Boom
Margin Buying
Appeasement
Unicameral Legislature
42. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Delegated Powers
Sit-Down Strike
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Bush Doctrine
43. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Pro-Life
Summit Meeting
Literacy Tests
Yellow-dog Contract
44. 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.
Mass Production
Civil Rights Movement
Vertical Integration
Capitalism
45. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Blue Laws
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Capitalism
Excise Tax
46. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.
Juvenile Delinquency
Joint Stock Company
Industrial Unionism
Ecology
47. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Independent Counsel
Cowboys
Unions
Specie Circular
48. 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.
Imperialism
Backlash
Teach-Ins
Isolationism
49. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Strict Constructionist
Medicaid
Secession
Isolationism
50. The system built into the US Constitution in which the three branches of government (legislative - executive - and judicial) have separate and equal powers that are limited and dependent upon each other. It is also called checks and balances.
New Left
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
Nonaggression Treaty