social science ch.1 test
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- habeas corpus
- the princpe that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime
- mercantilism
- economic policy which held tht a nation's wealth was measured by its supply of gold and silver
- republic
- system of goverment in which the people choose representatives go govern in their name
- finance
- to pay for; to supply with money
- northwest passage
- water route through or around north america
- subsistence farming
- a type of agriculture in which people live on what they grow themselves
- colony
- group of people who settle in a new place but are ruled by the government of their native land
- decline
- to lose strength or pwer over a period of time
- religious freedom
- right of all individuals to follow their own religious beliefs
- economy
- system governing the production, use, and distribution of goods
- Christopher Columbus
- italian sailor; believed that sailing west across the atlantic ocean would provide a quicker way to reach Asia
- bill of rights
- written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
- cartographers
- mapmakers
- jury
- panel of citizens who make judgements in a trial
- representative government
- a political system in whic voters elect others to make laws
- interest
- percentage added to the original amount
- legislature
- group of people who have the power to make laws
- distinct
- clearly different
- capitalism
- economic system in which people put money, or capital, into a business in order to make a profit
- immigrate
- to move to a foreign region or country
- cash crops
- corps that are grown to be sold
- debtor
- individual who owes something to another
- deprive
- to take away or hold back something needed
- plantation
- large estate farmed by many workers
- direct democracy
- system of government in which an assembly of ordinary citizens makes decisions
- participate
- to take part in;to share in an activity
- charter
- official document that gives certain rights to an individual or gorup