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Unit 8 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Labor unions | Groups formed by workers to advance their interest |
Suburbs | Residential communities outside of a city |
Communism | An economic system in which the state owns the land and means of production |
Free Enterprise | An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and determined in a free market |
Cold War | The struggle for power between the US and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II through the 1980s |
Dwight Eisenhower | commonly known as Ike, he was the 34th president of the US. He was a 5 star army general before becoming president |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Vice president to JFK, became the president after the JFK assassination. LBJ was from Texas and the 36th president of the US |
Civil rights | The rights due to all US citizens under the constitution |
Primary Election | An election in which voters choose the candidates for the general election |
Satellite | A human made object sent into space to orbit earth |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Commonly known as NASA. Located in Houston Texas, the world leader in space exploration |
International Space station | a flying laboratory that orbits Earth and is home to astronauts from all around the world |
Petrochemical | A substance made from oil or natural gas |
Carbon Black | a fine, black powder made by heating oil at a high temperature |
Boom-and-bust cycle | a prolonged period of great profits, followed by sharp decline |
OPEC | the organization of petroleum exporting countries, a group of nations banded together to control the oil industry |
embargo | an order to stop trade with a certain nation |
hydraulic fracturing fracking | water and chemicals pumped under high pressure deep into the ground in order to break the Earth and release oil gas |
maquiladoras | factories in mexico owned by foreign investors |
agribusiness | large corporations whose business is farming |
hybrid | something that is made of two different types of componets |
NAFTA | the North american free trade agreement-- it removed most of the trade barriers between the US, Mexico, and canada |
infrastructure | a system of public work such as roads and bridges |
diversity | to become more varied |
retail | the sale of goods directly to the public |
research and development | an activity that leads to creating new products or procedures |
micheal dell | Texas leader in science and technology, Dell began selling computers when he was a student at UT at Austin in the 1980' s and now is one of the largest computer companies in the world |
fraud | Something illegal that is said or trick a person for unfair gains |
limited convention | a convention in which only parts of the constitution may be changed |
george w. bush | son of George H.W. Bush and former governor of Texas, George W. Bush was elected 43rd president of the US in the 2000 and re-elected in 2004 |