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SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Vocab

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






2. 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.






3. A person who believes in the broad interpretation of the US Constitution; that is - that the Constitution does not have to be interpreted word by word. Alexander Hamilton supported this idea.






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






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






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






7. A government controlled behind the scenes by another power. During the Vietnam War - South Vietnam's governments were installed and controlled by the US; Ngo Dinh Diem and General Thieu - leaders of South Vietnam were American puppets.






8. The process of acquiring new territories






9. 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






10. 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






11. Persons who do not represent a state or nation who participate in military conflict and do not adhere to accepted rules of war. According to the Bush administration - unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield and detained off of US soil are not






12. A term used to describe a person who believes that the Consitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution.






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






14. 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.






15. 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






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






17. An agricultural system in which farm workers supply their own tools - rent land - and have more control over their work than agrarian wage workers.






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






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






20. 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.






21. The policy practiced by the European nations prior to WWII wherein they made concessions to aggressive nations-particularly - Hitler's Germany-in hopes of satisfying the demands of that nation and ending further aggression.






22. An organization and discussion method employed by feminists in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which women would exchange experiences of discrimination - read radical analyses of oppression - and develop an understanding that the patriarchal or som






23. 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.






24. Bundles of subprime mortgages that are traded like stocks.






25. 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






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






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






28. Government policy of noninterference in business practices and in individuals economic affairs; literally translated as "to let do."






29. Cattle handlers who drove large herds across the southern Great Plains. The era of the cowboy lasted from 1870 to the late 1880s.






30. 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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






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






40. The exodus of white - middle-class families from cities to suburbia following WWII due to the migration of African Americans to urban centers.






41. 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






42. A policy developed by the Spanish in the 1500s in which the Spanish settlers in the New World were permitted to use Native American labor if the settlers promised to attempt to Christianize them. It led to the exploitation of the Native Americans






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






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






45. Settlers who were granted plots in the West - usually of 160 acres - under the Homestead Act of 1862.






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






47. Middle-class reform movement of the first decades of the 20th century which sought to widen political participation - eradicate corruption - and apply scientific and technological expertise to social ills.






48. The movement to end slavery. There were many points of view on the subject. Immediate abolitionism advocated ending slavery everywhere and refusing to cooperate with the political process (William Lloyd Garrison). Political abolitionism advocated an






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






50. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's nation. For people under the control of a foreign power - nationalism is expressed as a desire that one's nation should become a free and independent country. For people who already live in an indepe







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