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Unit 13 SOL Review
Contemporary America (Government, Economic, Social, and Technological Changes)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communication advancements | Communication improvements because of Space Race & military conflicts: Satellites, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Personal Communication Devices (cell phones, I pads, laptops) |
| Effects on the workplace | Telecommuting (working over internet), Outsourcing (example: hiring another company to do all your hiring), Offshoring (moving jobs to other countries), and growth of service industries |
| Effects on Education | Distant learning- online classes |
| Online courses | students learning from home via the internet |
| Medical research | Breakthroughs in medical research, medical diagnostics (testing)and imaging technologies (MRI). |
| Global information | access to worldwide information through the Internet |
| Bilingual education | some instruction in student’s native language in addition to being taught English |
| Personal devices | wireless phones, IPads |
| Business outsourcing | Hiring another company to perform a service previously performed by employees “in-house”; example: outsourcing information technology work (computer processing) |
| Business off-shoring | the relocation of a company or part of a company from one country to another—typically a production process, such as manufacturing, or a supporting service, such as accounting |
| Increase in service industry | more Americans work in areas that provide a service to customers; examples: restaurants, clothing stores, banks |
| Space race | started in 1957; US & USSR competed to be the first to explore outer space w/satellites, sending a human into space & landing a person on the moon |
| Telecommuting | working/communicating via Internet, phone or video instead of traveling to work or to a meeting, |
| Space exploration advancements | Space Shuttle, Mars Rover, Voyager missions, Hubble Telescope |
| Sally Ride | first American female astronaut to go into space |
| John Glenn | first American astronaut to orbit the Earth |
| Sandra Day O’Connor | first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | second Woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Jewish female justice. |
| Clarence Thomas | second African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. (after Thurgood Marshall) |
| Ronald Reagan | 40th President of the U.S.; CONSERVATIVE Republican; cut taxes, reduced government regulations & programs (moved many to states), strengthened the American military, appointed judges who exercised “judicial restraint” |
| George H. W. Bush | 41st President of the U.S.; Republican; president during the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism in the Soviet Union, and during the Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm) |
| William “Bill” Clinton | 42nd President; “Centrist” Democrat who worked well with a Republican Congress to control spending |
| George W. Bush | George W. Bush 43rd President of the U.S.; Republican; president during the 911 terrorist attacks, initiated the Patriot Act that started the Homeland Security Department; president at the start of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq |
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