Term | Definition |
Culture | The way of life a group of people |
Patriotism | To love your country |
Immigrate | To come to a new country to make a new life |
Population | The total number of people who live in a place |
Rural | The countryside |
Urban | Areas in a city |
Suburb | Towns or small cities by a large city |
Government | System of leaders and laws for making decisions for a community, state, or nation |
Constitution | A plan of government |
Democracy | A form of government where people elect leaders to govern |
Republic | A government that gets it power from the people |
Legislative branch | Makes the law |
Executive branch | Carries out law |
Judicial branch | make sure laws obey constitution |
checks and balance | a way that each branch of government checks the other |
majority rule | the person/rule that gets the most votes win |
economy | all producing, selling and buying that people do |
free market | an economy with little or no government control |
factors of productions | the natural, capital, and resources that influence production |
profit | the money a business makes after paying bills |
supply | amount of something avaliable |
demand | amount of product people want |
manufacturing | the making of its products |
service industry | people are paid to do things for others |