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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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1. The political advocacy of black-owned businesses and independent black political action. Stokely Carmichael first used the term in a position paper for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.






2. 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.






3. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.






4. 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






5. A global pact initiated in 1997 and put into force in 2005 designed to reduce greenhouse emissions to levels that would avoid climate change. The United States is not one of the 187 nations who have ratified the pact.






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






7. 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






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






9. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.






10. 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






11. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.






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






13. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.






14. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.






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






16. 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






17. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.






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






19. 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.






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






21. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.






22. 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 checks and balances.






23. The characteristic of a federal system of government in which power is distributed between central and local governments. This distribution of power usually is established through some outside source - often a constitution - as is the case in the Uni






24. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. A machine that separates seeds from the cotton. The short-staple cotton that grew inland in the South's Black Belt could be cleaned profitably only with the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton cultivation to spread - enabling s






32. 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.






33. The policy of supplying government support for corporations when they are in severe financial trouble. The Chrysler Corporation - for example - got a $1.5 billion bailout in 1980 - and the savings and loan banks received at least $159 billion during






34. 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.






35. The theory that the path to economic growth is through tax cuts for the rich - who will then invest in new businesses and expand old ones - employing new workers as a result.






36. A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This support is usually defensive in nature. The formation of alliances was a nunderlying cause of WWI.






37. 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






38. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.






39. 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






40. The process of acquiring new territories






41. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.






46. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.






47. 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






48. 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






49. A type of economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products that it deems necessary for the good of the people.






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







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