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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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1. The idea that each member of the British Parliament represented all British subjects - regardless of location.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. 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






7. The belief the the US should not be involved in world affairs.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. A program providing health insurance and health care for people over the age of 65.






18. A form of nonviolent protest used by antiwar and antisegregation activists. Protesters would take over buildings - camp out in front of administration offices - or sit at lunch counters and demand to be served on an integrated basis. The first sit-in






19. 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






20. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was called the "Second Reconstruction" because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s had not brought equality for blacks.






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






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






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






24. 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






25. The name used by the administration of John F. Kennedy to describe its proposed programs for the nation.






26. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.






27. 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.






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






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.






30. A high tax placed on imports. Its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper than foreign goods - thus "protecting" domestic industry.






31. 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






32. Tax paid by those wishing to vote in several Southern states after Reconstruction. It was designed to limit political participation by African Americans.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. The process of acquiring new territories






37. 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.






38. A policy of empire building in which a nation conquers other nations or territories with the goal of increasing its power and expanding the area it controls. This was a cause of WWI.






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






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






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






42. A term coined in the 1950s to describe illegal or undesirable behavior by teenagers.






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. A tax that is added onto the price of goods produced - sold - or distributed within a country; for example - sales tax.






47. Derisive term for Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to promote reform or to profit from it.






48. 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.






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






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







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