Everything in this flashcard set.
- constitution
- Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
- republicanism
- The political orientation of those who hold that a ___ is the best form of government
- limited
- Public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops
- economics
- The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption
- mercantilism
- An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's
- Suffrage
- A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution
- Abolition
- The act of ___ a system or practice or institution
- Expansion
- The act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope
- Plantation
- A newly established colony
- government
- People who make and enforce a country's laws
- executive
- Persons who administer the law
- judicial
- Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice
- president
- Elected leader of a country
- washington
- The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca
- lincoln
- 16th President of the United States
- temperance
- The trait of avoiding excesses
- liberty
- Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- declaration
- A formal public statement
- sectionalism
- A partiality for some particular place
- civil war
- A war between groups within the same country.
- revolution
- A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
- slavery
- The state of being under the control of another person
- agriculture
- A large-scale farming enterprise
- Cotton
- Soft plant fibers harvested and used to make cloth.
