TERMS

1.       City upon a hill is an ideal community that the puritans hoped to build in New England

2.       Tea Act was an act of the Parliament of great Britain to expand the British East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. Passed on May 10, 1973

3.       The Missouri compromise is a compromise in which slavery was permitted in the new state of Missouri and the Arkansas territory but bared everywhere north and west of Missouri

4.       The compromise of 1950 is a compromise in 1850 admitted California as a free state with the citizens of Utah and New Mexico being allowed to decide whether they want slavery within their borders or not.

5.       The confederate army is the army of the confederate states of America which fought against the US federal gov.

6.       The US army is the army of the US federal gov

7.       The progressive mov’t is a mov’t to reform society and individuals through giv action to cure the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century

8.       Roosevelt’s New Deal was a complex package of eco program initiated btw 1933-35 to promote the eco recovery during the GD and to give relief to the unemployed and reform of business, financial practices.

9.      NATO is a military alliance established by the signing the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4 1949. The NATO constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an external attack.

10.  The Watergate incidence is a Amer political scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon, involved with NX and made him resign.

11.  Berlin wall was a physical barrier completely surround West Ber, separate East Ger form West Ger for more than a quarter cen.

12.  Nativist sentiment is the feeling of protecting the interests of the Amers against those of the immigrants

13.  Assimilation process is a process in which the immigrants to Amer try to be a part of Ame from generation to gen.

14.  WASPs White Anglo Saxon Protestant, an Amer of Brits or Northern Eu ancestry who is the member of the Protestant church.

15.  Salad pot is concept that the integration of different cultures of US residents combine like a salad. Various Amer cul don’t merge together into a single homogeneous culture.

16.  Melting pot refer to a way in which heterogeneous societies become more homogeneous, in which ppl of different cul, race and religions are combined to develop a multi-ethinic society.

17.  Multiculturalism refer to the density in culture of the US cuz of the big number of immigrants coming to Amer who are different in races, religions, langs and traditions

18.  Psychology of abundance:

ü  Historically, A has regarded their country as a land of limitless wealth

ü  The abundance of untapped natural resource attracted not only lots of ppl go there to exploit

ü  Some A believe in the inexhaustibility of the nation’s resources à has become a part of the Amer way of life

19.  Separation of powers: gov’s powers r given to 3 branches with separate functions to avoid superior powers rested in small powerful groups.

20.  A limited gov: gov power shouldn’t become concentrated in hands of a few. Strong gov apprears to be the natural enemy of indi freedom

21.  Winner-take-all election: system only one candidate-the one with more votes is elected to a given office in one district

22.  The electoral college: a group of ppl chosen by the votes of the ppl in each US state, who come together to elect the Pre

23.  Desegregation in the US edu: integration btw blacks and whites in edu

24.  Bussing in the US edu: carrying Ss by bus to a school in a different area where the ppils r or a different race.

25.  Decentralized: spending for public edu is determined bt state and local edu leaders

26.  Affirmative action: setting aside a certain number of places specially for applicants from blacks and other minorities

27.  Interesting group

ü  organized by those want to influence public policy decision on special issues such as the environment, civil rights, peace, etc

ü  have the desire to sway public opinion and political policy through: press, radio, letters, phone calls

28.  A lobbyist is a lawyer or a former legislator: specializes in the interest he presents, possesses an inside’s view of the lawmaking process

29.  Lobbyists work for interest groups by keeping them informed about proposed legislation by talking to decision-makers about their group’s concerns

30.  Budget deficit: spending gov>taking in

31.  Trade deficit: import>export

32.  Productivity: goods produced and work completed