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- earning capacity
- maximum earning ability a person has based on her education and talents
- geographic diversity
- New England middle and Southern colonies
- justice
- fair punishment for harm/destruction
- Mayflower Compact
- the governmentcreated by Pilgrims, first colonial democracy
- security
- safety
- parliament
- English bichameral legislature
- American Indians
- already inhabited AMericas when Europeans arrived
- Unemployment
- not having a job
- homelessness
- not having a permanent residence
- racial discrimination
- unfair prejudice against an ethnic, or culturally different person
- Substance Abuse
- when drugs/substance makes a person dependent
- poverty
- person or community that goes without
- Literacy
- ability to use language to read; write; listen; and speak
- acid rain
- rainswater tainted by acid pollution
- federal emergency management agency
- agency of the Department of HOmeland Security
- economic choices
- deicsions made by consumers based on demand of resources
- mechantilism
- when a country exports more than it imports to get more wealth
- citizen apathy
- lack of interest or participation
- Plantation system
- economic system revolving around agriculture that focuses on using slavery as a cheap labor source
- common law
- all based on court precedents and custom
- prison reform
- social program to change the penal system
- pollution
- chemical, gases and waste created/put off by businesses
- self-determination
- living life by one's choices, self-reliance
- Bacon's Rebellion
- In Surry County, Va, the colonists felt the government should protect all colonists, not just wealthy planters
- Magna Carta
- forced the ENglish king to accept the rule of law
- legal choices
- decisions made by individuals and societies based on values and community standards
- political choices
- decisions made by the electorate from the available decisions on the ballot
- freedom
- liberty and independence from unreasonable control
- taxation
- when government takes a percentage of taxes
- natural disasters
- emergency situations
- New Immigration
- patterns of immgration with large numbers of immgrants
- town meetings
- examples of direct democracy derrived by the form of government created by the Mayflower compact
- proprietary claim
- colony governed by a high-born owner
- middle passage
- part of the triangluar trade route: betwen Africa and North America
- disease
- issue that may confront a society
- waste disposal
- POLICY THAT DEALS WITH THE HANDLING, TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF RESIDENTIAL WASTE PRODUCTS
- law and order
- in a society maintaining peace and people abide by laws
- joint stock company
- individuals pour resources into a company in order to secrue a charter for AMerica
- Graft
- pocketing public funds for personal use
- economic cycles
- natural movement of economy-from prosperity to recession and back
- crime
- violation of lcoal, state or national laws
- triangular trade routes
- shipping routes developed between North America, Africa and Europe with a foucs on sugar, rum and slaves
- Jamestown, Va
- 1st permanent english settlement estabished in 1607
- slavery
- making people work without pay of any kind
- Salem witch trials
- mass hysteria and religious intolerance that occurred in Massachusets
- indentured servants
- colonists who agreed to work for certain period of time in order to pay off their passage to another country
- religious dissenters
- people who disagreed with their countries state religion and came to AMerica for religious freedom
- Royal charter
- colony governed by a king
- greenhouse effect
- warming of the earth's atmosphere from industrial and commercial gases