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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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1. 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.






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






3. A legislature composed of only one house or chamber.






4. Those who were against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.






5. The political position that claimed that we could have won the Vietnam War if we had declared war - put in more troops - had a more unified country - or given our generals free reign to fight. These positions are called revisionist because the consen






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. The political position advocated by Jerry Falwell - Pat Robertson - and other conservative Republicans emphasizing a life of religious observance along with no drugs - no divorce - no abortions - no homosexuality - no working mothers - and no sex bef






12. The political events of the 1960s divided the country in many ways. There were pro-Vietnam hawks and anti-Vietnam doves - those who supported the counterculture of liberated sex and drugs and those who did not - those who favored American involvement






13. 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






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






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






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






17. A term used to describe the ability of people to move within the social framework of a society. If the social system provides opportunities for a person born into a lower social class to move to an upper one - or vice versa - a characteristic of the






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






19. 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.






20. A prosecutor chosen by a panel of three judges (appointed by the attorney general) to investigate wrongdoing in the executive branch. Established after the Watergate Scandal - the role was designed to prevent conflict of interest within the executive






21. 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.






22. The practice of buying stock on credit. People pay a small percentage of the price of the stock - hoping that it will go up in value and that they can use money from the sale to pay the balance they owe. This practice contributed to the stock market






23. The joining together of companies to control all aspects of the production process of an item - from the mining or growing of materials through production and distribution of the final product.






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






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






26. A treaty in which the parties agree not to attack each other unless attacked first.






27. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.






28. 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.






29. The power of the president to reject legislation. The US Congress can override a veto by the US president if it can pass the legislation by a two-thirds majority.






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Umbrella term for biological - chemical - and nuclear weapons designed to kill large numbers of people.






35. 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.






36. 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






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






38. A system of government in which the religious leaders rule. A church-state - where the church is the government - is an example.






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






40. Derisive term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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







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