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AP Gov Unit 3 Review
Foreign and domestic matters in the US
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Domestic Policy | Plans or courses of actions that are directed inward, towards the nation who set them in place to help better the economy, environment, and the peoples well being. |
| LBJ's "War on Crime" | A policy, making crime control a federal priority and ushered in a new era of law enforcement |
| Gun Control | The containment of firearms in the hands of civilians and restricted access in law enforcement |
| Federal Spending on Crime Initiatives | Money going towards law enforcement including new, non lethal weapons and prisons |
| Harsher Punishment | An increase in the consequences of a crime |
| Three Strikes Law | An increase in punishment for a convicted personnel who has committed two prior serious or violent crimes |
| "War on Drugs" | A policy made to try and prohibit drugs |
| Brown v. Board | Supreme Court case held in 1954 that desegregated schools on a federal level |
| State Government's Role | Their role is to create state legislation that doesn't conflict with the constitution and approve the budget taxes for the state they are governing over |
| Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) | A law that enacts a commitment to provide an equal opportunity in education to all students whether they be disabled, have learning disabilities, are in poverty, and those who can't speak English |
| Department of Education | A branch of government that has to do with the funding, creation of schools and other educational related jobs |
| School Vouchers | Government funding to a student that can be used to pay tuition towards a school that is not already free |
| No Child Left Behind | A law that provided federal education programs to help the disabled, those with a learning disability and those who can not speak English |
| Renewable Resources | A source of energy, or resource in general, that can be used again and again because it's replaced naturally |
| Global Warming | The rise in average temperature around the globe caused by an increase in carbon dioxide and the depletion of the ozone layer |
| Superfund | A fund to clean up toxic waste sites, created by taxing chemical products |
| Environmental Protection Agency | The nations largest federal regulatory agency. Deals with land use, air and water quality, and wilderness and wildlife preservation |
| Environmental Impact Statement | A detailing of a proposed policy's environmental effects |
| Clean Air Act (1970) | Charges the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nations air |
| Water Pollution Control Act (1972) | A law intended to clean up the nations rivers and lakes |
| Endangered Species Act (1973) | Requires the federal government to protect all species listed as endangered |
| Medicare | Health care insurance for the elderly that helps with hospitalization insurance and short-term nursing |
| Medicaid | Program designed to provide health care for those in poverty |
| Veterans Administration | An organization on the federal level that provides patient care, veterans' benefits , and other services to veterans of the US military and their families |
| Food and Drug Administration | An organization charged with the regulation of food and health-related products |
| Clinton's Health Care Proposals | A proposed universal health care reform that set up enforced health care through employers with competitive, but closely regualted, health maintenance organizations |
| Obama-care | A law that makes quality health care more widely available to the citizens and also set up a plan to have all Americans under health care by 2014 |
| New Deal | A series of programs focused to help the people directly by government spending into the economy to help the nation out of the great depression |
| Social Security Act | Created medicare, or the support of the elderly through the taxation of those who are working |
| LBJ's Great Society |
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