LCSD 7 Social Studies
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- Import
- trade product brought into a country
- Legislative
- Congress
- Background Cause
- a cause that helps build up the occurrence of a future event
- Rural
- country or farmland
- Viceroy
- The governor of a country or province who rules as a representative of his King
- Democracy
- a government that is run by the people, who rule either directly or indirectly
- Columbian Exchange
- the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the eastern and western hemispheres
- Expedition
- Journey for a particular purpose
- Alliance
- agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
- Levy
- to impose
- Senate
- group of elected officials that make laws (each state has two)
- Republic
- system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them
- Artifact
- material object of culture such as a tool, article of clothing, or prepared food
- Northwest Passage
- all water route through North America to Asia
- Matriarchal
- Eldest woman is responsible for making the decisions for the tribe
- Migration
- Movement of many Asians to the continent of North America
- Separation of Powers
- principle by which the powers of the government are shared
- Yucatan Peninsula
- location where many Meso-American tribes developed
- Monopoly
- a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry
- Compromise
- two opposing sides coming to an agreement
- Charter
- Document given by a monarch to create a colony
- Civilization
- Highly developed level of cultural and technological development
- Electoral college
- group of electors that vote for the president
- Geography
- the study of people their environments and their resources
- Haudenosaunee
- Native American word to describe the Iroquois people
- Liberty
- freedom
- Executive
- President
- Agriculture
- process of growing food
- Urban
- city
- Tariff
- tax
- House of Representatives
- group of elected officials, based on state population, that make laws
- Exports
- products made in one country and going to another
- Ethnocentrism
- the practice of comparing other cultures (unfavorably) to one's own
- Monarchy
- Rule by a King or Queen
- Mercantilism
- theory that a nation's economic strength came from keeping control over its colonial trade
- Nullification
- the idea that a state has the right to cancel a federal law the state considers unconstitutional
- Maize
- Corn
- Judicial
- courts
- Colony
- group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land
- Secondary Source
- account provided after the fact by people who did not directly witness or participate in the event
- Immediate Cause
- a cause that leads directly to the occurrence of an event
- Woodland Natives
- Native Americans that depend on the use of wood for survival
- Act
- law
- Culture
- entire way of life developed by a people
- Judicial Review
- Power of the Supreme Court to overturn a law
- Federal
- Central government
- Debtor
- person who cannot pay money he or she owes
- Preamble
- introduction to the constitution that states its goals
- Federalism
- a principle of the United States Constitution that establishes the division of power between the federal and state governments
- Congress
- House of Representatives and Senate
- Sectionalism
- loyalty to a state or section, rather than a country as a whole
- Ratification
- the act of officially consenting to or approving something
- Blockade
- the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
- Limitation of Powers
- Principle of the constitution that states that the government only has the power that the constitution gives it
- Extended Family
- Several generations of family members
- Expansion
- to make a country larger
- Alien
- person not born in the country they are living in
- Supreme Court
- Highest court in the United States
- Nuclear Family
- Mother, father, and children
- Treaty
- an agreement between two nations
- Primary source
- firsthand information about people or events
- Barter
- To trade without using money
- Bicameral Legislature
- Two house law:making body
- Economics
- the study of how people manage limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs
- Suffrage
- vote
- Precedent
- something that has not been done before
- Matrilineage
- Family line is traced through the mother's side