Chapter 12 & 13 Flashcards
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- To incorporate a country or territory into another country or territory.
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Annexation
1
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- A building where a legislative body of a republic, state or country meets.
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Capitol
2
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- Money paid out.
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Expenditure
3
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- Money that a nation or state collects.
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Revenue
4
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- A tax on imported goods.
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Tariff
5
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- Income derived from donations that is set aside for a specific purpose.
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Endowment Fund
6
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- The heads of departments of the executive branch appointed by the president an confirmed by the Senate; a group of advisers to a political head of government.
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Cabinet
7
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- Additional money issued during Mirabeau B. Lamar’s presidency to help in easing the large public debt (red backs quickly shrank in value).
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Red back
8
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- Official government offices.
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Archives
9
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- The view that is was fated that the United States should expand its borders from coast to coast.
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Manifest Destiny
10
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- A statement passed by both houses of legislature that has the force of law.
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Joint Resolution
11
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- A person licensed to bring settlers into a country, paid in land or money to do so.
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Immigrant Agent
12
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- A crop grown to be used on the farm where it was raised.
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Subsistence Crop
13
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- A floating mass of tangled driftwood that often blocks transportation.
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Raft
14
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- To establish by a state contract or a guarantee.
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Charter
