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7th grade SS exam SG
7th grade Social Studies study guide
Term | Definition |
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Ambush | a surprise attack |
Amendment | an addition to the Constitution |
Apprentice | assistant who is assigned to learn something |
Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. |
Bicameral | having two branches or chambers. |
Boycott | basicly a Strike |
Budget Deficit | amount of money a government uses |
Burgesses | elected representatives |
Cabinet | the president's assistants |
Cash crop | crops sold for money |
Cede | give up by treaty |
Charter | settlement document |
Charter colony | settlement owned by a group |
Circumnavigate | sail around the world |
Columbian exchange | the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas |
Committee of correspondance | political ideas |
Constitution | formal plan of government |
Cottin gin | machine used to make cotton |
Effigy | a sculpture or model of a person. |
Electoral college | people who elect the President |
Executive branch | president |
Executive order | have the full force of law, based on the authority derived from statute or the Constitution itself. |
Export | to sell goods |
Guerrilla warfare | hit and run tactics |
Import | to buy goods |
Indentured servant | men and women who signed a contract to work for a certain number of years, in return for transportation |