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Acronyms
100
Programs such as unemployment insurance, disaster relief, or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
What are entitlements
100
foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation's history, whereby the United States has tried to stay out of other nations' conflicts, particularly European wars
What is Isolationism?
100
A lengthy speech designed to delay or kill the vote on a bill; used only in the Senate
What is Filibuster?
100
A nation's basic law. It creates political instituitions, assigns or divides powers in government, and often provides certain guarantees to citizens. Can be either written or unwritten.
What is the Constitution?
100
OAn economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations
What is OPEC
200
Increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and then children.
What is the Feminization of Poverty?
200
A slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policymaking
What is Detente?
200
A temporary committee to work out a compromise version of a bill that has passed the House of Representatives &Senate in diff. forms
What is a Conference Committee?
200
opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption
What are Anti-Federalists?
200
An agency created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad
What is the CIA?
300
"Shares" of the national income earned by various groups.
What is Income Distribution?
300
Mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines
What is Interdependency?
300
An institution unique to the House of Representatives that review all bills (except revenue, budget, and appropriations bills) coming from a House committee before they go to the full house.
What is the House Rules Committee?
300
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
An alliance of the major Western European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit
What is the EU?
400
Method used to count the number of poor people; considers what a family must spend for an "austere" standard of living.
What is the Poverty Line?
400
A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, "contain" its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible, but by force if necessary
What is the Containment Doctrine?
400
Committee made up of members of both house of Congress-housekeeping issues decided
What is a Joint Committee?
400
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in Congress in proportion to that state's share of the U.S. population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
statistic that measures overall changes in price or inflation over time
What is the CPI?
500
Government program available only to individuals below a poverty line.
What are Means-Tested Programs?
500
A defense plan against Soviet nuclear weapons unveiled by President Reagan in 1983
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
500
Writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress (with Senate Finance Committee)
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
500
A series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays to block foreclosure proceedings.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
Advertises for employees, examines those who apply, and keeps registers, lists of those applicants who pass its test and are qualified for employment
What is the OPM?