American Pageant - Chapter 10 - Vocabulary
Vocabulary terms from Chapter 10 of American Pageant.
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| An official count of population; in the United States, the federal census occurs every ten years | ||
| The debt of a government or nation to individual creditors, also called the national debt | ||
| The body of official advisers to the head of a government; in the United States, it consists of the heads of the major executive departments | ||
| A court that hears cases in several designated locations rather than in a single place | ||
| Concerning public finances-expenditures and revenues | ||
| The appropriation or taking on of obligations not originally one's own | ||
| A tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products | ||
| The shares of capital ownership gained from investing in a corporate enterprise; the term also refers to the certificates representing such shares | ||
| Any item, paper or otherwise, used as money | ||
| Arbitrary or tyrannical rule | ||
| To force people or property into public service without choice; conscript | ||
| The merging of diverse cultures or peoples into one | ||
| An investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition | ||
| An agreement or covenant between states to perform some legal act | ||
| In American politics, the assertion that a state may legally invalidate a federal act deemed inconsistent with its rights or sovereignty |