vocab casey
this is the vocab for mr casey's class
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- self determination
- belief that people in their own territory should ahve the ability to choose their own government
- secular
- a viewpoint void of religous thought or ocnsiderations
- government
- the institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens
- amnesty
- act of granting pardon to a group of people
- billingualism
- the practice of teaching imagrant students their own language
- state sponsored terrorism
- violent acts against civilians that are secretly supported by a gov in order to attack other antions without going to war
- diplomacy
- the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations without arrousing hostility
- crusades
- a series of military expeditions by christian europe to regain the holy land from the muslums
- appeasment
- satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort
- autonomous
- self governing
- heresy
- thoughts and ideas that are contrary to the teachings of christian faith
- patronage
- the practice of granting favors to reward party loyalty
- propaganda
- ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
- brinkmanship
- willingness to go to war to force an opponenet to back down
- fascism
- a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition
- jurisdiction
- the authority power or right of a court to interpret or apply the law on certain cases
- hellenistic
- pertaining to greek language and culture
- dissident
- a person who speaks out against the regime in power
- feudalism
- a political and social system that developed during the middle age
- bureacracy
- government adminaitrarors
- impeachment
- a formal accusation of misconduct in offiice agianst a public official
- multinational corperation
- large corporation with overseas investments
- politics
- the effort to control or influenc e the conduct and policie sof the government
- containment
- the policy designed to keep the soviet union from expanding its power
- supply
- the amount of a product that would be offered for sale at all possible prices that could prevail in the market
- civil society
- a complex network of voluntary assosiations, economic groups, and religios organizations
- soveringiety
- the supreme and absolute authority within territorial bounderies
- naturalization
- the legal process in which a person is granted citizenship
- imperialism
- the actions used by one nation to excersize political economic control over a smaller or weaker nation
- internationalism
- a national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity
- political machine
- an organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government
- socialism
- a system in which society usually in the form of the government owns and controlls the means of production
- magna carta
- a written code that limited the power of english monarchyfor the first time; also called the great charter
- rural
- country
- segragation
- the seperation or isolation of a race, class, or group
- scarcity
- the condition that results from limited resources combuned with unlimited wants
- downsizing
- reducing a company in size by laying off workers and managers to become more efficent
- constituent
- a person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent
- urban
- city
- social contract
- the idea that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will
- trade off
- alternatives that must be given up when one is chosen over another
- democracy
- a general description of a government in which the people rule
- confederacy
- a loose union of independentstates name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the civil war
- consumer price index
- statistic that measures overall changes in price or inflation over time
- nullification
- thr failure or refusal of the u.s. state to aid in the enforcement of federal laws within its state limits
- judicial review
- the power of the supreme court to declare laws and actions of local state or national govnmts unconstitutional
- nuclear prolliferation
- the spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
- marginal utility
- the extra usefullness gained from consuming one more unit of a product
- dissarment
- a limit or reduction to armed forces or weapons
- federalism
- a system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
- dynasty
- a family line of rulers whos right to rule is passed on within the family
- reperation
- payment made to the victor
- terrorism
- the use of violence by a non governmental group
- capitalis
- economic system in which private citezens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits
- republic
- a specific description of a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens
- elasticity
- a measuer of responsiveness that tells us how a dependant variable such as quantity responds to an independant variable price such as price
- totalitarian
- a government that aims to control the political social and economical culural lives of its citizens
- corperation
- an organization that is authorizrd by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person
- isolationism
- the avoidance of involvment in world affairs
- detente
- relaxation of tensions between the united states and its two major communist rivals, the soviet union and china
- insurrection
- an act of rebelion against an established government
- consumer soveriengiety
- the concept that the consumer is the ruler of the market
- subversion
- a systematic attempt to overthrow the government by using persons working secretly from within
- due process of law
- principle in the 5th amendment stating that the gov must follow proper constitutional procedures in trials and in other actions it takes against individuals
- ethnic cleansing
- the expulsion, impprisionment , or killing of ethnic minorities by a dominent majority group
- incumbent
- elected official that is already in office
- communism
- an economic system in which the central government directs all major decisions
- caste system
- a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a persons occupationand economic potential but also his her postion in society
- lobbying
- direct contact made by an interest group representitive
- flexible response
- the build up of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapons
- liberal
- a person who generaly beleives the gov should take an active role in the economy and in social programs but the gov should not dictate social behavior
- middle passage
- the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought african slaves to the americas