VICTORY GARDENS

• a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war

AEROSPACE

• an industry that deals with travel in and above the Earth's atmosphere and with the production of vehicles used in such travel

TIDELANDS

• land underlying the ocean and lying beyond the low-water limit of the tide but being within the territorial waters of a nation

COMMUTE

• to travel regularly to and from a place and especially between where you live and where you work

DESEGREGATE

• to end a policy that keeps people of different races apart

NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE

• the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence.

GREAT SOCIETY

• The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

SIT-INS

• The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

CHICANO MOVEMENT

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

SCANDAL

• an occurrence in which people are shocked and upset because of behavior that is morally or legally wrong

TWO-PARTY SYSTEM

• two major political parties dominate politics within a government. One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority party while the other is the minority party.

BIPARTISANSHIP

• involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies.

TERRORISM

• the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal

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