Vocab - 1st Six Weeks U.S. History

Democracy

• political system in which citizens vote / elect people to represent them

• Has to do with money / jobs

• Document that defines the role / structure of a government

• Disagreement

Social contract

• An educated guess based on observations / reasoning

• Unprocessed natural products used in production

• An agreement among the people to create / obey a government

• Rights all people have (ex. life, liberty)

Consent

• disagreement

• permission

• believable, reasonable

• businesses making products

Dissent

• Formal expression of disapproval

• Products bought from another country

• To make products, especially on a large scale

• Disagreement

Industry

• Businesses making products

• Has to do with money / jobs

• To make products, especially on a large scale

• An abuse of authority

Unprocessed natural products used in production

• Manufactured goods

• Raw materials

An abuse of authority, especially by a government with total control

• Tyranny

• Debt

• Tax

• Protest

Money owed to someone else

• Imports

• Debt

• Tyranny

• Industry

Products bought from another country

• Imports

• Exports

Exports

• Products bought from another country

• Products sold to another country