8th SS - Chapter 10 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
dumping | selling goods in another country below market prices |
infrastructure | system of roads, bridges, and canals |
capitalism | the economic system in which privately owned businesses compete in a free market |
interstate commerce | trade between two or more states |
cede | give up |
self-goverment | right of people to rule themselves independently |
suffrage | the right to vote |
caucus | a meeting of members of a political party |
nominating conventions | large meetings of party delegates to choose candidates for office |
spoils system | the practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins an election |
Sequoyah | Cherokee leader who created a written language for the Native American people |
Trail of Tears | the route that the Cherokee Nation had to walk from their land to the "Indian Territory" assigned to them |
nullification | an action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects |
Panic of 1837 | economic collapse in the United States due to the fall of cotton prices, banks could not collect loans, and so banks went bankrupt |
Monroe Doctrine | document that states that the U.S. warned European nations against reestablishing colonies in Latin America |
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