click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
soc studies GR8 all
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliance | countries working together |
| boycott | refusal to buy |
| citizen | born or naturalized member of a country |
| citizen | active participant in a country |
| compromise | agreement in which groups get some of what they want but not all of what they want |
| debt | owing money |
| domestic | relations within a country |
| economy | money |
| foreign policy | relations among nations |
| government | rules and organized groups of people for running a country |
| exports | products going out of a country |
| imports | products coming into a country |
| impose | to force |
| independent | free to make your own decisions |
| liberty | being free from control |
| manufacture | to make |
| merchant | a business person |
| immigration | movement into a country |
| migration | movement of people from one country to another |
| natural rights | rights that you're born with ("all men are created equal") |
| negotiate | to reach an agreement |
| neutral | not taking sides |
| overturn | to reverse |
| petition | to ask for something as a group |
| political party | a group of people with shared ideas who work to get people elected and about how a country should be run |
| preamble | "we the people"; the beginning of the Constitution that explains its purpose |
| prejudice | a belief based on a small group of people applied to a larger group of people |
| principle | a basic truth; law or idea |
| protest | to oppose |
| rebel | to go against |
| republic | a government in which people vote for their leaders |
| revolution | a major change |