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TAKS Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Area between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains, breadbasket of America | Great Plains |
| The belief that it was the destiny of the US to stretch from sea to sea | Manifest Destiny |
| Non-interfereence or "hands off" attitude of government towards business | Laissez-faire |
| economic system in which individuals depend on supply and demand and profit margin to answer the four basoic economic questions of: "what to produce?", "how to produce?", "how much to produce?", and "for whom to produce?" | Free Enterprise System |
| government spending is greater than tax revenues; government spends more than it takes in; causes national debt | Deficit (Spending) |
| Controlling enough of an industry to control prices | monopoly |
| A multi-family building constructed to house large numbers of people as cheaply as possible | tenement |
| An organization created by public officials to maintain and extend their power | Political Machine |
| Government employees at the local, state, and federal level | Civil Service |
| A workshop with extremely poor, unsafe working conditions | Sweatshop |
| People who leave their country to settle in another | Immigrant |
| White anglo saxon protestant (WASP)view that it was their duty to bring Christianity and democracy to developing nations | White Man's Burden |
| The policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs | Isolationism |
| The policy of establishing economic or political control over other nations | Imperialism |
| Formal dealings between one country and another | Diplomacy |
| international policy that guides a country's decision-making | Foreign Policy |
| Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates events in order to attract readers | Yellow Journalism |
| A writer during the progressive Era who exposed social and political evils | Muckraker |
| A process by which citizens at the local or state level propose legislation or state constitutional amendments | Initiative |
| A process by which people vote directly on proposed legislation | Referendum |
| The procedure by which a public official may be voted out of office before their term is up | Recall |
| An election to choose candidates | Direct Primary |
| The preservation and wise use of natural resources | Conservation |
| Selection for required military duty, conscription, Selective Service | Draft |
| Wilson's plan for world peace after World War One | Fourteen Points |
| Wilson's international organization to keep world peace after World War One, failed | League of Nations |
| Official approval of a treaty by a 2/3rds vote of the Senate | Ratify |
| A spiraling increase in the monetary supply and rising of prices and wages | Inflation |
| Supply of goods is greater than the demand | Overproduction |
| Decrease in the demand for goods | Underconsumption |
| An economic slowdown | Recession |
| To take a chance in the stock market or real estate in hopes of making a profit | Speculation |
| Buying stocks on credit | margin |
| Falling prices and wages along with a decrease in the monetary supply | Deflation |
| Not supporting either side during a war | Neutrality |
| To give into the demands of a hostile nation to keep the peace | Appeasement |
| A strong, centralized, nationalistic government usually headed by a dictator (Mussolini, Hitler) | Fascism |
| The systematic destruction of an entire ethnic group of people | Genocide |
| Government regulation of the supply of critical goods to people | Rationing |
| A government that exercises total control over its people | Totalitarian |
| Created to investigate communist influence in America 1930's, 1950's | HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee |
| An international organizationfounded in 1945 to promote world peace | United Nations |
| An imaginary barrier between the communist nations of Eastern Europe and the free world, designed to keep out the "corrupting" ideas of the free and democratic Western world | Iron Curtain |
| The postwar American foreign policy that sought to stop the expansion of communism (from the USSR) through diplomatic, economic, and military means | Containment |
| The boundary that seperates North and South Korea | 38th parallel |
| An economic system in which the government owns the means of production. Individual efforts are not rewarded, workers work for the nation | Communism |
| Fear of "reds" or Communists taking over the United States | Red Scare |
| A list of people and organizations suspected of being communist, boycotted the products and kept the people from working (McCarthyism) | Blacklist |
| The art of going to the edge of nuclear war without going to war | Brinkmanship |
| A volunteer organization formed by JFK to provide help to developing nations | Peace Corps |
| The belief that if one nation in a region falls to communism then the others in that region will fall also | Domino Theory |
| A person who supported the Vietnam War | Hawk |
| A person who was against the Vietnam War | Dove |
| Vietnamese who fought for the reunification of Vietnam, used guerilla warfare | Vietcong |
| Culture with values opposed to those of the established culture | Counterculture |
| The federal agency that runs the US space program | NASA |
| A program under the Social Security Adm. that provides medical care for the aged | Medicare |
| Keeping apart | Segregation |
| Mixing together | Integration |
| Purposely disobeying a law one believes is unjust or unfair in order to change that law | Civil disobedience |
| Discrimination against members of a dominant group (Bakke) | Reverse Discrimination |
| The policy of giving preference to women and minority members who apply for jobs or for admission to schools | Affirmative Action |
| "practical politics" in which success matters more than legality or idealism (Nixon, Kissinger) | Realpolitik |
| A religious lobby that promotes conservative causes such as family values | Religious Right |
| Reagan's economic plan of budget cuts, tax cuts, and increased defense spending | Reaganomics |
| The region in the South, Southwest US where the relocation of industries from the US northeast took place | Sunbelt |
| Belief that a reduction in taxes will stimulate investment and productivity | Supply Side Economics |
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