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Social Vocab
Vocab from the textbook
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| immigration? | the process of people establishing homes and citizenship in a country that is not their native country. |
| in debt? | to owe money. |
| durable? | long lasting. |
| lineage? | ancestry or family line. |
| Great Depression? | the global economic slowdown that occured between 1929 and 1939. |
| republic? | a system of government that does not have a monarch (usually a democracy). |
| scurvy? | a disease resulting from lack of Vitamin C that causes internal bleeding. |
| tariff? | an extra charge. |
| genocide? | a policy to eliminate people of a particular cultural identity. |
| coerce? | to force. |
| cholera? | a contagious disease that causes intestinal problems and dehydration. |
| Canadien? | a decendant of the settlers of New France. |
| bicultural? | giving official recognition to two cultures |
| charter? | a set of rules and privileges granted to a company by a king or queen. |
| deport? | to send out of a country. |