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Unit 8 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Labor Unions | Groups formed by workers to advance their interest |
Suburbs | residential communities in which the state owns the land and the means of production |
Free Enterprise | an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, investments that are determined by private decisions rather than by state control , and determined in ket a free mar |
Cold War | The struggle of power between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of WWII through 1980's |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commonly known as IKE , he was the 34th president of the U.S. { REPUBLICAN}He was a 5 star army general before becoming president |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Vice president JFK, became the president after the JFK assassination .LBJ was from Texas and the 36th president of the U.S. |
Civil Rights | the rights due to all U.S. citizens under the constitution |
Primary Election | an election in which voters choose the candidates for general election |
Satellite | a human made objects sent into space to orbit the Earth |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 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 gases |
Carbon black | a fine , black powder made by heating oil at high temperatures |
boom-bust-cycle | a prolonged period of great profits ,followed by a 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 and 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 components |
NAFTA | The North American Free Trade Agreement - it removed most of the trade barriers between the U.S. , Mexico , and Canada |
Infrastructure | a system of public works 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 the creating of new products and procedures |
Michael 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 done to trick a person for unfair gain |
Limited Convention | a convention which only two parts of the constitution may be change |
G W. Bush | son of George H.W. Bush and former governor of Texas , George W. Bush was elected 43rd president of the U.S. in 2000 and re-elected in 2004 |
communism | and economic system in which the state owns the land and the means of production |