click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Stack #162585
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | the right to vote in public elections |
| Monarchs | king or queen who rules for life and gains their position by inheriting it |
| Command economy | an economy in which business activity and resources are government controlled |
| Market economy | an economy where prices and wages are determined by supply and demand, not the government |
| Mixed economy | an economy in which some industries are government owned or regulated an d some are privately owned |
| Conscientious objector | someone who for religious reasons refuses to serve in the military |
| Containment | a U.S. government policy intended to stop the spread of communism |
| War reparations | money a country is forced to pay after losing a war supposedly for the wrongs they committed. |
| Theocracy | government run by religious officials and governed according to the principles of a specific religion |
| The Enlightenment | an 18th century movement believing that human reason could combat ignorance, superstition and monarchs. It's primary targets were religion and monarchs. |
| Bias | an unfair preference or dislike of something |
| Segregation | the practice of keeping specific groups separate; racial, religious, ethnic,gender, etc. |
| Credible source | a source of information that is worthy of trust and confidence |
| Panama Canal | a narrow waterway cut through the country of Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans completed in 1914 by the U.S. |
| Imperialism | the political, economic or military domination of one country over another |
| Prohibition | the period from 1919-1933 in the U.S. where the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was forbidden (18th amendment) |