American Culture: Unity and Division Vocabulary
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- limited government
- the principle that requires all US citizens, including government leaders to obey the law
- equal opportunity
- absence of discrimination, no matter if you are wealthy or poor
- right and responsibilities
- given the right or an entitlement under the law you have to use the rights apropriatley
- market economy
- an economy that operates by voluntary excahng in free market and is not planned or controlled by a central authority
- political party
- an organization to gain political power
- national unity
- when the nation agrees on everything, usually during a war, depression
- national culture
- a nation's shared beliefs and values
- value
- worth or importance, meaning of something
- belief
- acceptance of truth of something, religious faith
- democracy
- free and equal representation of people, a democratic nation/government system
- sectionalism
- the placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole
- states' rights
- theory that said that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
- free and enslaved
- these terms are usually referred to see if the person is property or has some rights
- abolition
- the movement to end slavery
- principle
- a standard of moral or ethical decision making
- civil war
- a war that tears the country into two different parts