UNIT 11 VOCABULARY

VICTORY GARDENS

AEROSPACE

• THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY, WHICH MANUFACTURED AIRPLANES AND MISSILES, THRIVED DUE TO INCREASED CIVILIAN TRAVEL AND MILITARY DEMANDS.

TIDELANDS

COMMUTE

• MOST TEXANS LIVING IN THE SUBURBS CHOSE TO COMMUTE TO THEIR JOBS, MEANING THEY LIVED IN ONE AREA BUT DROVE ELSEWHERE TO WORK.

DESEGREGATE

NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE

• The use of peaceful means to achieve a goal.

GREAT SOCIETY

• Johnson launched a program that he ​called the Great Society. ​This program included a number of sweeping ​​ reforms designed to improve the lives of Americans.

SIT-INS

• PROTESTS THAT INVOLVE SITTING DOWN IN A PUBLIC FACILITY AND REFUSING TO LEAVE - TO BRING AN END TO SEGREGATION

CHICANO MOVEMENT

• A civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.

SCANDAL

• A PUBLICIZED EVENT IN WHICH OFFICIALS ARE DISGRACED FOR DOING SOMETHING WRONG

TWO-PARTY SYSTEM

• A political system in which two parties of comparable strength compete for political office rather than one in which one party dominates elections

BIPARTISANSHIP

TERRORISM

DEPORTATION

• Some Texans want to return all illegal ​ immigrants to their home countries, a process known as deportation

INFRASTRUCTURE

• More people living in the state means the need for an ​ improved infrastructure; public ​works such as roads, bridges, electrical grids, and water systems

DESALINIZATION

Cinco de Mayo

BIOMASS

• For example, some new power plants generate energy from biomass​ plant material and animal waste rather than fossil fuels

WIND FARMS

• An area of land with a group of energy-producing windmills or wind turbines

GLOBALIZATION

• The tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen