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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Doves
Robber Baron
Militarism
Political Machines
2. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.
Injunction
Compassionate Conservatism
Veto
Scalawags
3. 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.
Temperance Movement
Impeachment
War on Terror
Guerrilla War
4. 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
Sit-Down Strike
Assembly Line
Juvenile Delinquency
Patroonship
5. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Civil Rights Movement
Anti-Communism
Royal Colony
Boston Tea Party
6. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Baby Boom
Virtual Representation
War on Poverty
Civil Rights Movement
7. 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.
Gender Gap
New Immigration
Jim Crow
Alliances
8. 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
Unlawful Combatants
Impressment
Tariff
Social Gospel
9. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.
Socialism
Barbed Wire
Domino Theory
Indentured Servitude
10. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Black Power
Secession
New Frontier
Mass Production
11. 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.
Spoils System
Black Power
Cabinet
Impeachment
12. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.
Great Society
Laissez-Faire
Impeachment
Direct Primary
13. The study of the environment.
Virtual Representation
White Flight
Ecology
Anthracite Coal
14. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
War on Poverty
White Flight
Horizontal Integration
Medicare
15. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Referendum
Assembly Line
Anthracite Coal
Free Blacks
16. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Joint Stock Company
Muckrackers
Barbed Wire
Settlement House Movement
17. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Interchangeable Parts
Barbed Wire
Consumer Society
18. 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
Sit-Down Strike
Backlash
Independent Counsel
Indentured Servitude
19. 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.
Escalation
Pragmatism
Pro-Choice
Tenant Farming
20. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.
Popular Sovereignty
Nonaggression Treaty
Tenant Farming
Backlash
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
War on Poverty
Culture Wars
Royal Colony
Internal Improvements
22. 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.
Loyalty Oaths
Rugged Individualism
Strict Constructionist
Assembly Line
23. 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.
Gender Gap
Bootleggers
Unions
Proprietary Colony
24. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Ratification
Pragmatism
Bootleggers
Dollar Diplomacy
25. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.
Colonization
Theocracy
Installment Plans
Intrastate Commerce
26. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Isolationism
Theocracy
Democracy
Baby Boom
27. 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
Nonaggression Treaty
Horizontal Integration
Nativism
Bush Doctrine
28. 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.
Boston Tea Party
Speculation
Bimetallists
Mestizos
29. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Yellow-dog Contract
Democracy
Interstate Commerce
Advertising
30. 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.
Free Labor
Supply-Side Economics
New Immigration
Vertical Integration
31. 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
Bailouts
Doves
Vertical Integration
Annexation
32. 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
Joint Stock Company
White Flight
Industrial Unionism
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.
Primogeniture
Colonization
Teach-Ins
Free Labor
34. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
Protective Tariff
Yellow Journalism
Trusts
White Flight
35. 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
Socialism
Margin Buying
Guerrilla War
Family Values
36. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
Installment Plans
Intrastate Commerce
Dollar Diplomacy
Unicameral Legislature
37. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Containment
Appeasement
Socialism
Settlement House Movement
38. 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.
Tariff
Containment
Bailouts
Rock and Roll
39. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Bailouts
Alliances
Social Gospel
Unicameral Legislature
40. 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.
Yellow-dog Contract
Isolationism
Manifest Destiny
Sharecropping
41. 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.
Margin Buying
Impressment
Isolationism
Cold War
42. 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
Baby Boom
Trusts
Universal Suffrage
43. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Bimetallists
Medicaid
Advertising
Unions
44. 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.
White Flight
Progressive Movement
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Blacklist
45. 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
Self-Governing Colony
McCarthyism
Popular Sovereignty
Rugged Individualism
46. 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
Protective Tariff
White Flight
Vietnam Revisionism
Loyalty Oaths
47. 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
Domino Theory
Cold War
Referendum
New Immigration
48. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.
Bimetallists
Poll Tax
Laissez-Faire
Impeachment
49. Found in the 10th Amendment - it provides that any powers not specifically given to the central government or specifically denied to the state governments by the Constitution are powers that the states are granted. For example - the power to develop
Guerrilla War
Impeachment
Isolationism
Reserved Powers Clause
50. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Domino Theory
Great Society
Poll Tax
Direct Democracy
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