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for the benefit or interest of a politically organized society as a whole
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(1) the right of a sovereign state to appropriate all or part of any property for necessary public use, making reasonable compensation.
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institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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- those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
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getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another
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any of a wide range of programs aimed at expanding opportunities for women and minorities
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a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society
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the idea that each person is guaranteed the same chance to succeed in life
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that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power
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a group of people bound together by the same culture
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ultimate authority are held by people of the United States
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powers shared by both the federal and state government (for example, levying taxes, borrowing money, and spending for the general welfare).
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a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
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the powers explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution (enumerated powers are the same as constitutional powers or expressed powers). |
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institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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powers assumed by government that are not specifically listed in the Constitution.
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those delegated powers of the constitution that are assumed to belong to the national government because it is a sovereign state.
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powers that are not specifically granted or denied to the federal government are reserved to the states.
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a native or naturalized member of a political community. |
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that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
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those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
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payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
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conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
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a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social
classes and private ownership are discouraged.
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any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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monarchy in which the powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
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form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative.
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a government system controlled by one ruler who has absolute power and usually controlled by force.
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a system of government characterized by strong nationalist, racist, and military policies, ruled by a dictator, with a centralized control of the basic means of production. |
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institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
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a system of government in which the chief executive is the leader whose party holds the most seats in the legislature after an election or whose
party forms a major part of the ruling coalition.
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those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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a political and economic system in which government controls resources and industries.
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ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
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a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life
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the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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United Nations Declaration of Human Rights-
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an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
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the distribution of resources, goods, or services.
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an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
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establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
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a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
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something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, which induces action or motivates effort.
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an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
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governed by a monarch (king, queen, emperor, empress).
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the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
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after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than revenue, profit is negative (there is a loss). |
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an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
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the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
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the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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government restriction placed on trade.
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the price at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.
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goods and services produced in one nation and sold to buyers in another nation.
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the independent central bank of the United States that controls the money supply.
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a given year.
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the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
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amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
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a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
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the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
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science applied to achieve practical purposes. |
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something that satisfies one’s wants.
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when one individual or nation has an efficiency advantage over another individual or nation with two separate products but has a greater
advantage in one product than in the other. The efficient producer has a comparative advantage for the product in which he or it has greater relative efficiency.
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something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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the price of one currency in relation to another currency.
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an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
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the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
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people who work in jobs where they produce a few special goods and services.
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a tax imposed on imported goods. |
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the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
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something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
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the accumulated negative balance.
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a negative balance after expenditures are subtracted from revenues for a specific time period
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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the use of federal government spending, taxing, and debt management to influence general economic activity. |
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something that you can touch or hold.
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institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
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something that one person does for someone else.
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a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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the use of money to buy goods and services.
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payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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something that satisfies one’s wants.
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a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
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something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
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an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system. |
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spending on goods and services
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financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
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the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
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a measure of goods and services produced over a period of time with a given set of resources.
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income that is not spent, setting aside income or money for future use.
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science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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the location of a point expressed by a grid reference (latitude and longitude).
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any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common. |
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the careful use and protection of natural resources, such as soil, forests, and water.
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a compilation, structuring, and categorization of information for analysis and interpretation.
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the arrangement of items over a specified area.
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a computerized geographic database that contains information about the spatial distribution of physical and human characteristics of Earth’s surface.
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maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and satellite-produced images used to depict selected aspects of the earth’s surface.
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maps and graphs used to portray geographic information (thematic and choropleth maps, cartograms, graphs [pie, bar, line, population pyramids]).
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the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative location).
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a system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
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the mental image a person has of an area.
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resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
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a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
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spatial expressions of political behavior; boundaries on land, water, and air space; cities, towns, counties, countries.
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the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
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establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
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the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
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locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
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an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
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a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
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an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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the graduation requirements included in the revised Quality Performance Accreditation regulations will go into effect with the senior class of
2009, or the freshmen of 2005-06. Included in the requirements is a third credit in science. The science program 9-12 must include concepts (not courses) in
biological, physical, and earth science. Please consider the indicators from Benchmark 3 above to create a well-
rounded study of the earth’s physical systems.
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the way chemicals build up in organisms, as each consumes other organisms lower in the food chain.
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the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time.
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the lessening or exhaustion of a supply.
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the arrangement of items over a specified area
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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the theory that the uppermost part of the earth is divided into plates that slide or drift very slowly, causing the formation of physical features, such
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a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth’s physical systems (e.g., glaciation, erosion, deposition).
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the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another.
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the arrangement of items over a specified area. |
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areas or neighborhoods within cities that are homogeneous in their ethnic make-up, and are usually surrounded by different ethnic
groups (Chinatown).
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the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
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the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative location).
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exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services
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a large, sprawled urban complex, created through the spread and joining of separate metropolitan areas.
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the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
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intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
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an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money. |
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the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time.
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human entities that are interrelated, (a city, an airport, and a transportation network).
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the continuous circulation of water from the oceans, through the air, to the land, and back to the sea; evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
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a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
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a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
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a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
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something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
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the growth of machine production and the factory system.
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an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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something that satisfies one’s wants.
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an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
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a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
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the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
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the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
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a policy of aggressive military preparedness.
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intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
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a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services. |
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those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution. |
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a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority
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a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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something that satisfies one’s wants.
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a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
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any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common. |
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a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
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something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
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a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment.
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the arrangement of items over a specified area.
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the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
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a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
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a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life |
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an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
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- a form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.
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the exchange of products, diseases, and ideas, some positive and others negative, between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the era of Christopher Columbus. |
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an idea that the powers of government should be distributed according to a constitution and those powers should be restrained by constitutional
provision.
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a reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that arose in 16th-century Europe in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
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a cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature,
art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome
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a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
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an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
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a system of beliefs for satisfying peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
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a revival or rebirth, usually referring to the revival of classical learning in Italy after the Middle Ages.
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the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
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an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
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a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social classes and private ownership are discouraged. |
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learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
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- the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
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a theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. |
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the growth of machine production and the factory system.
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an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a freeenterprise
system to operate according to its own economic laws.
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a policy of aggressive military preparedness.
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intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
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a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed.
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an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis
on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
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a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918
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a style of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the drawing of natural forms into abstract, often geometric
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a theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual
impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
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intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
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a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery
and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
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a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social
classes and private ownership are discouraged.
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the movement advancing women’s rights and interests.
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a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
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people relying on each other in different places or in the same place for ideas, goods, and services.
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resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
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several artistic movements since the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature.
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an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas. |
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