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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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1. 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.






2. A type of colony in which the people of the colony chose the governor of the colony. Rhode Island was a self-governing colony.






3. The series of violent reactions to police brutality - poor living conditions - assassinations - and high unemployment from 1964-1968. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) called them a reaction to the rising expecta






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






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






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






7. Progressive-era reform that created a mechanism for voters to approve or reject legislation placed on the ballot. It was designed to weaken the power of entrenched political machines.






8. The process of acquiring new territories






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






10. 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






11. The 19th and early 20th century movement to limit or outlaw the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The movement achieved its ultimate success with the passage of the 18th Amendment-or Prohibition- which went into effect in 1920.






12. 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.






13. Art and literature that seek to depict the commonplace in a plausible and direct manner.






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






15. 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.






16. Perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1844 - the telegraph allowed for communications over long distances by tapping out coded messages to be carried over wires.






17. 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.






18. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.






19. 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






20. A political system dominated by two parties. Voters reluctance to support third parties reinforces the two-party system. The first two-party system - dating back to the 1970s - included the Federalist and Republican Parties. The current two-party sys






21. A form of educational protest at universities. The practice began in 1965 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - when professors and students analyzed US foreign policy and debated with each other and-only in the earlier days of the war-with go






22. Trade that takes place within the boundaries of a state. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate intrastate commerce is delegated to the states.






23. 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.






24. Coins or gold and silver money - also called "hard money."






25. 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






26. 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






27. Grangers - Populists - and agrarian activists of the late 19th century who advocated basing money o silver as well as gold. See Free Silverites.






28. The political position advocating sending free blacks to Liberia in Africa to reduce the number of them in the country-the more blacks that were freed - the fewer there would be in America. It was seen as a way of alleviating the danger of slave insu






29. 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






30. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.






31. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. The traditions - language - and modes of behavior of the field hands who lived together in slave quarters. They practiced many forms of resistance to the wills of their masters - told each other African-derived tales - sand spirituals - and practiced






36. People who illegally manufactured - sold - or transported alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period.






37. Large corporations created by the consolidation of competing companies to form a monopoly or near monopoly.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. A program providing health care for the needy (people who lived below the poverty level) who were not covered by Medicare.






42. The political position that favors abortion on demand.






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






44. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.






45. 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.






46. Residential communities near large urban centers. Although suburbs existed in the 19th century - they became a widespread social phenomenon in the 1950s.






47. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.






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






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






50. 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.







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