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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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1. The generation of children born between the end of WWII and 1964.






2. Agreements employers forced potential employees to sign in which the employees agreed not to join unions or go on strike.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Organizations - such as the underground press - Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoots - and women's groups (like the Red Stockings) - that were interested in social change but uninterested in the debates over whether to support Russia a






6. The formal or official approval for a constitution or amendment.






7. 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.






8. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.






9. 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






10. 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.






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.






12. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.






13. The movement to form labor organizations made up of skilled wokrers within a particular field.






14. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.






15. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.






16. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.






17. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.






18. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."






19. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.






20. A type of democracy in which the people vote on the actions of the government - rather than electing representatives.






21. 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






22. 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.






23. The practice of victorious candidates distributing government jobs to friends and supporters rather than to the most qualified people. Andre Jackson gave his supporters the spoils of victory - whereas John Quincy Adams by and large did not.






24. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII - partially caused by the migration of African Americans to urban centers.






29. An increase in number - volume - scope. In reference to the Vietnam War - it refers to the increase in the number of troops and the intensity of involvement by the United States.






30. Sensationalist - lurid - and often falsified accounts of events printed by newspapers and magazines to attract readers.






31. 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






32. A legislature composed of two houses. The US Congress - composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives - is an example.






33. 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.






34. The name used by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe its domestic programs.






35. 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






36. 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






37. The development of large military forces - not only for defense of the nation but for possible aggression into other nations. It was one of the causes of WWI.






38. The movement to form labor organizations that represent every worker in a single industry - regardless of his or her level of skill.






39. The railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was completed in 1869.






40. A company that developed in the early 1600s in England wherein a group of investors pooled their money to finance exploration of the new World. The investor would receive a portion of the profits resulting from the exploration of the New World based






41. The process of acquiring new territories






42. 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






43. The principal that the Supreme Court has the power to review laws passed by Congress and actions taken by the president to determine whether or not they are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court can declare a law or presidential action






44. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.






45. 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






46. Also called "applied Christianity -" this reform movement - driven by Christian teachings - sought to relieve the suffering of the poor.






47. 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.






48. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.






49. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.






50. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.







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