Chapter 17- Social Studies
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- Racism?
- the belief that one race is more superior to another.
- martial law?
- rule by the army instead of the elected governement.
- emancipate?
- to free
- discrimination?
- policy or attitude that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people
- civilians?
- people who were not in the army, worked on farms and labored in factories to support the war effort
- draft?
- law requiring certain people to serve in the military
- habeas corpus?
- right to have charges failed or a hearing before being jailed
- income tax?
- tax on peoples earnings
- inflation?
- rise in prices and decrease in the value of money
- profiteers?
- a person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money
- siege?
- a military blackade of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender