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Social Studies
| 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 |