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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Free Enterprise | An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. |
| Embargo | A official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. |
| Natural Resources | Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. |
| GDP | Gross domestic product is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period of time |
| Constitution | Rules that govern a state or organization. |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments of the United States constitution. |
| Declaration Of Independence | Made July 4, 1776 to declare independence from Britan and to |
| Judicial Review | Review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act. |
| Checks and Balances | A counter balancing influences by which a organization or system is regulated, typically for those ensuring equal power. |
| Federalism | A federal principle or system of government. |
| Congress | A national legislative body, especially for the US. |
| Representative Government | A type of democracy found on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people. |
| Communism | A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading in which all property is publicly owned. |
| Monarchy | A form of government with a Monarch in charge. |
| Polytheistic | The worship of or belief in a multiple deities, which are usally assembled into a pantheon of gods or goddesses. |
| NAFTA | A agreement signed by Mexico, Canada, and the US creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. (January 1, 1994) |
| Subsistence Farming | Is a self-sufficieny farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves. |
| Mestizos | A man mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard an a American Indian. |
| Deforestation | The action of clearing a wide area of trees. |
| Cash Crop | A crop produced fir its commercial value rather than for use for the grower. |
| Columbian Exchange | Was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human, population, technology, and ideas between he Americans and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| Cultural Diffusion | Spreading of knowledge and ideas between cultures. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | A agreement which dictated where Spain and Portugal could set up colonies in the America's. |
| Legislative Branch | Made up of the two houses to the congress, the House of Representatives the most important thing for the branch to do is make laws. |
| Executive Branch | Holds the President the Vice President and the Cabinet and their important job is enforcing laws. |
| Judicial Branch | Power is vested in the Supreme Court and their important job is to interpret and apply laws. |
| Dictatorship | A form of government where a country is ruled by one person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity's power remains strong. |
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