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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.
Black Power
Reserved Powers Clause
Jim Crow
Strict Constructionist
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.
Abolitionism
Political Machines
Isolationism
Technological Unemployment
3. Critical term for the owners of the big business of the Gilded Age who accumulated great wealth and power.
Barbed Wire
Protective Tariff
Robber Baron
Containment
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
Reserved Powers Clause
Judicial Review
Ethnic Cleansing
Abolitionism
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.
Juvenile Delinquency
Jim Crow
Kyoto Protocol
Democracy
6. Laws passed in the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to restrict the movements and limit the rights of African Americans.
Excise Tax
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Black Codes
Spoils System
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
Capitalism
Direct Democracy
Transcontinental Railway
Laissez-Faire
8. The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs.
Bush Doctrine
Capitalism
McCarthyism
Isolationism
9. The condition when all male adults in a democracy are granted the right to vote.
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Encomienda
Urban Riots
Unions
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
Puppet Regimes
Manifest Destiny
Short-staple Cotton
Poll Tax
11. A type of colony controlled by the king. The crown chose the governor to run the colony.
Royal Colony
Two-Party System
Telegraph
Rock and Roll
12. A court order stopping a specific act - often used against unions to end a strike.
Settlement House Movement
Protectorate
Transcontinental Railway
Injunction
13. Progressive political reform in the early 1900s that enabled voters to introduce legislation.
Independent Counsel
Nativism
Initiative
Intrastate Commerce
14. Worker organization formed to press for workplace demands - such as better wages and safer working conditions.
Unions
Protective Tariff
Indentured Servitude
Culture of the Quarters
15. Those who were pro-Vietnam war in the 1960s.
Hawks
Blacklist
Sit-Ins
Interstate Commerce
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
Cold War
Popular Sovereignty
Tenant Farming
Speakeasies
17. A policy in which one people or a group within a nation attempts to destroy people whose ethnic background differs from theirs.
Ethnic Cleansing
Backlash
Short-staple Cotton
New Frontier
18. Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.
Muckrackers
Talkies
Speculation
Court Packing Scheme
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.
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
Literacy Tests
Blue Laws
20. A conference attended by leaders of two or more nations.
Patroonship
Summit Meeting
Salutary Neglect
Poll Tax
21. A list of persons - often secretly circulated - who are disapproved of and are to be denied employment or other benefits.
Blacklist
Self-Governing Colony
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Great Society
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.
Cotton Gin
Telegraph
Separation of Powers
Bootleggers
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
Technological Unemployment
Division of Powers
Cabinet
Court Packing Scheme
24. Derisive term for US foreign policy in the early 20th century designed to protect the investments of US corporations in Latin America.
New Frontier
Dollar Diplomacy
Bicameral Legislature
Scalawags
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.
Yellow-dog Contract
Protectorate
Democracy
Free Silverites
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.
Navigation Acts
Political Machines
Containment
Cabinet
27. An economic system in which the state controls the production and distribution of certain products deemed necessary for the good of the people
Free Soil Position
Scab
Socialism
Appeasement
28. The economic state in which prices are rising (inflation) and unemployment is high - producing stagnation of growth.
Bailouts
Stagflation
Appeasement
Anthracite Coal
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.
Advertising
Urban Riots
Speculation
Settlement House Movement
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
Isolationism
Horizontal Integration
Elastic Clause
Judicial Review
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
Cotton Gin
Bicameral Legislature
Imperialism
Anti-Communism
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.
Court Packing Scheme
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Proprietary Colony
Judicial Review
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
Bootleggers
Initiative
Bicameral Legislature
Bailouts
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.
Ecology
Delegated Powers
Loyalty Oaths
Internal Improvements
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.
Socialism
Supply-Side Economics
Interchangeable Parts
Democracy
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.
Cold War
Boston Tea Party
White Flight
Alliances
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
Cowboys
Consumer Society
Domino Theory
Backlash
38. The promotion of products in various media. Modern advertising - employing psychology - expert testimony - and other innovations developed in the 1920s.
Mercantilism
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Manifest Destiny
Advertising
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
Contraband of War
New Left
Reserved Powers Clause
Family Values
40. The process of acquiring new territories
McCarthyism
Annexation
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Movement
41. A slogan used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his goal of ending poverty in the United States.
Cabinet
War on Poverty
Civil Rights Movement
Family Values
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.
Free Labor
Sit-Down Strike
Independent Counsel
Jim Crow
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.
Telegraph
Yellow Journalism
Blacklist
Transcontinental Railway
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.
Impeachment
Progressive Movement
Jim Crow
Medicaid
45. Large plantation-type farm established by the Dutch along the Hudson River in the 1600s.
Delegated Powers
Blacklist
Patroonship
Culture Wars
46. A skilled worker who had learned a trade from a master as an apprentice. Shoemakers - bakers - blacksmiths. and carpenters were artisans.
Secession
Artsian
Hawks
Dollar Diplomacy
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
Literacy Tests
Nationalism
Reserved Powers Clause
Ecology
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
Internal Improvements
Veto
Primogeniture
Division of Powers
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.
Anti-Communism
Medicare
Socialism
Family Values
50. A type of coal - noted for being hard and clean burning.
Protectorate
Anthracite Coal
Urban Riots
Speakeasies
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