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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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






2. Illegal bars and saloons that operated during Prohibition.






3. 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






4. A tax placed on imports; its purpose is to make domestic goods cheaper to keep out foreign goods.






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Early 20th-century election reform that allowed citizens - rather than political machines - to choose candidates for public office.






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






15. 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






16. An indictment or formal charge brought by the legislative body against a government official - especially the president - in an attempt to remove the person from office. If the House of Representatives determines that a president has committed acts t






17. 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 separation of powers.






18. 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






19. Laws enacted in many states based on religious bans of personal behavior deemed immoral; for example - law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sundays.






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






21. The study of the environment.






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






23. 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.






24. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). It was characterized by harsh rhetoric - technological rivalry - an arms buildup - and proxy wars in developing countries.






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






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






30. A defiant act of the colonies against the British government and its tea trade agreement with East India - which was causing colonial tea merchants to go bankrupt. Protesters dumped an entire shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.






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






32. 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






33. A type of government characterized by a loose alliance of states leading to a weak central government and strong state governments. This was the type of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.






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






35. The political and social conviction that only white Protestant Americans deserved civil rights and employment. Nativists tried to prevent the Irish and the new immigrants of the 1880's-1920's from becoming citizens or entering the country. The Know-N






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Techniques used in industry to produce large quantities of goods using interchangeable parts and moving assembly lines. Elements of mass production were developed in the 19th century; the process was perfected by Henry Ford in the 1910s.






46. A practice used in colonial America in which a person entered into a contract for a specified period of time with another in exchange for the payment of his or her passage to the New World. The indentured servant was sometimes promised some land afte






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






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






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






50. 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.







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