MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
Glossary of Important Terms
Geography
Climate
Continent
Culture
Geography
Irrigation
Isthmus
Land Forms
Migration
Natural Resources
Northwest Passage
Peninsula
Rural
Strait
Suburban
Topographic
Transcontinental
Urban
Urbanization
Political and Government
Alien
Alliance
Amendment
Anarchy
Bicameral Legislature (House of Representatives and Senate)
Bureaucracy
Carpetbaggers
Census
Checks and Balances
Communism
Constitutional
Democracy
Diplomat
Domestic
Electoral College
Federalism
Foreign
Government
House of Burgesses
Impeachment
Manifest Destiny
Monarchy
Patroon
Petition
Platform
Political
Purposes of:
· Declaration of Independence
· Constitution
· Bill of Rights
Republic
Scalawags
Separation of Powers
Socialism
Sovereign
Spoils System
**Suffrage
Totalitarian
Veto
Economic
Acquisition
Agrarian
Barter
Boycott
Capital
Capitalism
**Columbian Exchange
Commerce
Consumer
Consumption
Debt
Distribution
Economics
Export
Free Enterprise
Free Trade
Goods
Import
Inflation
Labor
Laissez-faire
Luxury
**Mercantilism
Necessity
Patroon System
Per Capita
Poverty
Production
Profit
Protectionism
Quota
Revenue
Surplus
Supply and Demand
Tariff
Social
Bias
Discrimination
Genocide
Matriarchal
Patriarchal
Propaganda
Protest
Quota
Racism
Segregation
Underground Railroad
General
Allegiance
Archeology
Artifact
Benefit
Backcountry/frontier
Civics
Committed
Conflict
Dig Site
Literacy
Nomad
Nullify
Primarily
Primary (multiple definitions)
**Primary Source (vs. Secondary Source)
Primitive
Principle
Promote
Prosperous/Prosperity
Provision (multiple definitions)
Radiocarbon Dating
Ratify
Reform
Slogan
Sociology
Test Words
Adapt
Analyze
Associated
Cause
Compare
Conclusion
Contrast
Demonstrate
Depict
Describe
Effect
Explain
Function
Identify
Illustrate
Interpret
Justify
Principle
Result
Sequence
Symbol
** FREQUENTLY USED TERMS ON TEST
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