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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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






2. 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.






3. A political philosophy that promotes solving social issues through cooperation with private agencies rather than through direct government programs. It also stresses the personal responsibility and accountability as keys to success.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. A slave owner in early Virginia or Maryland; later - according to the census - a man who owned 20 or more slaves.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. The post-WWII US policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism.






13. Lincoln's Civil War policy of treating runaway slaves as enemy war property. He accepted the slaves as a way to hurt the Southern cause. They were freed and employed as aides to the Union army until Lincoln started recruiting black troops after the E






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. Hit and run tactics combined with hiding and ambushing the enemy. The soldier would live off the land and population in an area so that he or she need not carry many supplies. The Americans learned this from the Indians in colonial times and used it






19. 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.






20. The joining together of companies engaged in similar business practices to create a virtual monopoly.






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






22. The movement of mostly college-educated women to provide shelter - cultural activities - and services to the poor. The height of the movement occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.






23. 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.






24. 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






25. The process of acquiring new territories






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. An invention of the 1870's - barbed wire enabled farmers to enclose land and prevent the long cattle drives that cowboys conducted.






31. 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






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






33. The political position that favors abortion on demand.






34. The practice of granting the firstborn son the right to all the inheritance of the parent's estate - rather than subdividing it and giving portions to all offspring.






35. 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






36. The practice of paying for goods at regular intervals - usually with interest added to the balance - associated with consumption in the 1920s.






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






38. Trade that takes place between states. Under the US Constitution - the power to regulate interstate commerce is delegated to the Congress.






39. A system of government in which the power to rule comes from the people.






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






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






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






43. Political party organizations that run cities and are often associated with corruption and undemocratic practices. The most notorious example was New York's Tammary Hall Democratic club of the Gilded age.






44. The killing of African Americans - usually by hanging - carried out by white mobs primarily in the Southern states.






45. Derogatory term used by the labor movement to describe workers who cross picket lines






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






47. The result of a general shift in society in the 1920s characterized by a greater emphasis on purchasing goods.






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






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






50. 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.







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