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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab
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1. 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
Reserved Powers Clause
Cold War
Culture Wars
Medicaid
2. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
White Flight
Internal Improvements
Capitalism
3. 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.
Technological Unemployment
Literacy Tests
Primogeniture
Social Mobility
4. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.
Loose Constructionist
Consciousness-Raising Groups
War on Poverty
Direct Democracy
5. 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.
New Left
Annexation
Progressive Movement
Baby Boom
6. 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.
Mass Production
Medicaid
Compact Theory
Mestizos
7. Journalists of the Progressive era who exposed urban poverty - unsafe working conditions - political corruption - and other social ills.
Gender Gap
Muckrackers
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Transcontinental Railway
8. 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.
Jim Crow
Pro-Life
Loose Constructionist
Independent Counsel
9. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
Great Society
Bimetallists
Cowboys
10. 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
Rugged Individualism
Horizontal Integration
Impressment
Industrial Unionism
11. 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
Sharecropping
Blacklist
Popular Sovereignty
12. 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.
Carpetbaggers
Proprietary Colony
Trusts
Scab
13. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.
Reserved Powers Clause
Puppet Regimes
Political Machines
Urban Riots
14. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.
Anthracite Coal
Ratification
Specie Circular
Strict Constructionist
15. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.
Reserved Powers Clause
Imperialism
Unicameral Legislature
Social Gospel
16. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Salutary Neglect
Homesteaders
Sit-Ins
Jim Crow
17. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.
Temperance Movement
Division of Powers
Baby Boom
Medicare
18. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Protectorate
Isolationism
Yellow-dog Contract
Socialism
19. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.
Mestizos
Social Gospel
Royal Colony
Navigation Acts
20. 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.
Civil Rights Movement
Puppet Regimes
Free Silverites
Self-Governing Colony
21. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.
Advertising
Puppet Regimes
Political Machines
Virtual Representation
22. 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
Family Values
Sit-Down Strike
Jim Crow
Vertical Integration
23. Machine-made or standardized parts that could be put together to make a product. Eli Whitney demonstrated to President John Adams in 1801 how a box of guns could be disassembled and reassembled randomly. Each part must be precision-made so that it wi
Interchangeable Parts
Vietnam Revisionism
Imperialism
Annexation
24. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Militarism
Ecology
Virtual Representation
Blue Laws
25. A term used to describe an investment with a reward that can be great-if the investment is successful. It contributed to the stock market crash of 1929.
Speculation
Secession
Unions
Referendum
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
Cabinet
Abolitionism
Patroonship
27. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.
Spoils System
Bicameral Legislature
Imperialism
Second Reconstruction
28. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.
Salutary Neglect
Black Power
Interstate Commerce
Unicameral Legislature
29. 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.
Virtual Representation
Consumer Society
Consciousness-Raising Groups
Short-staple Cotton
30. The process of acquiring new territories
Compact Theory
Cowboys
Annexation
Colonization
31. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Talkies
Backlash
Patroonship
Speakeasies
32. 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
Direct Democracy
Injunction
Blacklist
Elastic Clause
33. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Encomienda
Black Power
Primogeniture
Universal Manhood Suffrage
34. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.
Two-Party System
Bimetallists
Encomienda
Intrastate Commerce
35. 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
Trusts
Culture Wars
Free Soil Position
Temperance Movement
36. 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.
Nationalism
Sharecropping
Settlement House Movement
New Immigration
37. 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
Bush Doctrine
Socialism
Teenagers
38. 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
Impeachment
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Cotton Gin
Virtual Representation
39. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.
Settlement House Movement
Artsian
Medicaid
Protectorate
40. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."
Indentured Servitude
Specie Circular
White Flight
Strict Constructionist
41. 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
Subprime Mortgage
Vietnam Revisionism
Nativism
Ecology
42. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."
Cotton Gin
Laissez-Faire
Veto
Civil Rights Movement
43. 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.
Cowboys
Culture of the Quarters
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Delegated Powers
44. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.
Protectorate
Margin Buying
Consumer Society
Craft Unionism
45. 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.
Nativism
Imperialism
Kyoto Protocol
Interchangeable Parts
46. 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.
Assembly Line
Second Reconstruction
New Immigration
Contraband of War
47. 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
Protectorate
Assembly Line
Abolitionism
Domino Theory
48. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.
Speakeasies
Yellow Journalism
Juvenile Delinquency
Direct Democracy
49. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Direct Primary
Planter
Anthracite Coal
War on Terror
50. 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.
Alliances
Talkies
Mass Production
Tariff
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