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KS History Key Terms
Chapter 9, Lessons 1 - 3
Question | Answer |
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something that causes change | catalyst |
to travel a significant distance regularly, typically to and from work or home | commute |
similarity in form or character | conformity |
a business operated with the authority of a larger parent company | franchise |
to make something part of a business or corporation | incorporate |
a residential neighborhood that surrounds a city | suburb |
a competition between nations to build more powerful bombs and weapons | arms race |
an intense economic, political, military, and cultural competition between nations | cold war |
an economic and political system where the government owns all the land, property, and businesses | communism |
a type of energy created when the nucleus of an atom is split | nuclear |
a smaller armed conflict that becomes a stand-in for a clash between superpowers | proxy war |
something giving off radiation, energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or moving particles produced as a result of an atomic reaction | radioactive |
a nonviolent form of protest in which citizens break a law in order to make a point and bring about a change in government policies or practices | civil disobedience |
the rights of individuals to political, social, and economic equality | civil rights |
a lawsuit brought by a group of people who have a common interest | class action |
of or involving the common people for political change | grassroots |
desegregated; made socially, politically, and culturally separate groups into one functioning population | integrated |
the party that starts a lawsuit in court | plaintiff |
a peaceful protest in which participants occupy a forbidden space by sitting and refusing to leave | sit-in |