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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Speakeasies
Anti-Communism
Conflict Historiography
Internal Improvements
2. 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
Impeachment
Ratification
Direct Democracy
Nativism
3. The process of acquiring new territories
Blue Laws
Rock and Roll
Annexation
Teach-Ins
4. 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.
Robber Baron
Muckrackers
Free Blacks
Baby Boom
5. A list - circulated among potential employers - of alleged "troublemakers" not to be hired.
Blacklist
Teenagers
Speakeasies
Homesteaders
6. 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
Mercantilism
Unions
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
7. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.
Vietnam Revisionism
Excise Tax
White Flight
Carpetbaggers
8. A prosecutor chosen by a panel of three judges (appointed by the attorney general) to investigate wrongdoing in the executive branch. Established after the Watergate Scandal - the role was designed to prevent conflict of interest within the executive
Guerrilla War
Independent Counsel
Teenagers
Anti-Communism
9. 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
Gender Gap
Free Soil Position
Second Wave of Feminism
New Immigration
10. 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
Jim Crow
Anthracite Coal
Theory of Perpetual Union
Vertical Integration
11. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Vietnam Revisionism
Jim Crow
White Flight
12. 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
Self-Governing Colony
Contraband of War
Internal Improvements
Homesteaders
13. 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.
Headright System
Abolitionism
Cabinet
Strict Constructionist
14. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.
New Frontier
Interstate Commerce
Scab
Protective Tariff
15. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Assembly Line
Robber Baron
Muckrackers
Free Silverites
16. Populists and "Silver Democrats" who in the 1890s argued in favor of an immense increase in silver coinage as a way of stimulating a faltering economy. See Bimetallists.
Laissez-Faire
Impeachment
Free Silverites
Compassionate Conservatism
17. 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
Impeachment
Gender Gap
Realist Movement
Scab
18. An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods is determined by individual consumer preference. It is characterized by the free-enterprise system - competition - profit motive - and pricing based on the laws of supply and demand
Capitalism
Abolitionism
New Immigration
Protective Tariff
19. 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 separation of powers.
Stagflation
Short-staple Cotton
Checks and Balances
Black Power
20. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Craft Unionism
Bailouts
Excise Tax
Nationalism
21. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines
Imperialism
Spoils System
Artsian
Scab
22. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.
Margin Buying
New Frontier
Compact Theory
Baby Boom
23. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Medicare
Containment
Rugged Individualism
24. 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
Short-staple Cotton
Summit Meeting
Encomienda
Horizontal Integration
25. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement
Culture Wars
Lynching
Boston Tea Party
Summit Meeting
26. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.
Temperance Movement
New Frontier
Veto
Stagflation
27. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Unlawful Combatants
Alliances
Black Codes
Impeachment
28. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.
Nonaggression Treaty
Bicameral Legislature
Popular Sovereignty
New Left
29. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Bootleggers
Hawks
Rock and Roll
Isolationism
30. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.
Industrial Unionism
Unicameral Legislature
Intrastate Commerce
Judicial Review
31. 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.
Supply-Side Economics
Jim Crow
Baby Boom
Ratification
32. 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.
Alliances
Literacy Tests
Great Society
Protective Tariff
33. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.
Alliances
Talkies
Bootleggers
Lynching
34. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Direct Democracy
Tenant Farming
Sit-Down Strike
Pro-Life
35. 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.
New Left
Free Labor
Impressment
Technological Unemployment
36. George W. Bush's belief in the propriety of using unilateral preemptive military strikes-essentially a preventive war- to fight terrorism.
Bush Doctrine
Supply-Side Economics
Assembly Line
Protective Tariff
37. 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.
Popular Sovereignty
Technological Unemployment
Alliances
Loose Constructionist
38. 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
Short-staple Cotton
Direct Democracy
Interchangeable Parts
39. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.
Annexation
Tariff
Impeachment
Transcontinental Railway
40. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.
Advertising
Vertical Integration
Universal Suffrage
Assembly Line
41. Provisions in the voting laws in Southern states following Reconstruction designed to allow whites who could not pass literacy tests to vote. The grandfather clause gave the right to vote to people whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote-a provi
Settlement House Movement
Consumer Society
Grandfather Clauses
Medicare
42. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Specie Circular
Trusts
Domino Theory
Talkies
43. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Interstate Commerce
Mercantilism
Pragmatism
Self-Governing Colony
44. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.
Scab
Injunction
Yellow-dog Contract
Independent Counsel
45. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Rugged Individualism
Interchangeable Parts
Baby Boom
White Flight
46. 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.
Free Silverites
Subprime Mortgage
Separation of Powers
Political Machines
47. Teenagers - as an identifiable social group - emerged in the 1950s. Teenagers were seen both as a problematic - rebellious group - as well as a target for new products and cultural offerings.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Horizontal Integration
Primogeniture
Teenagers
48. A type of colony that was settled by a group of investors and in which the governor of the colony was chosen by the proprietors.
Anti-Communism
Cotton Gin
Vertical Integration
Proprietary Colony
49. The condition when all adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Protective Tariff
Unicameral Legislature
Muckrackers
Universal Suffrage
50. 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.
Sit-Down Strike
Protective Tariff
Juvenile Delinquency
Poll Tax
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