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SS Chapter 10
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a charter? | legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| What is a dumping? | swelling goods in another country below market prices |
| What is a contract? | agreement between two or more parties that can be enforced by law |
| What is capitlism? | economic system in which privately owned businesses compete in a free market |
| What is interstate commerce? | trade between two or more states |
| What is ceded? | gave up |
| What is self-government? | right of poeple to rule themselves independently |
| What is suffarage? | the right to vote |
| What is caucus? | meeting of members of a political party |
| What is nominating conventions? | large meetings of party delegates to choose candidates for office |
| What is a spoil system? | practice rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins |
| What is nullfication? | action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects |