Chapter 2 - Glossary Flashcards
An event that is pleasantly noteworthy or memorable (once printed in color on a calendar).
red-letter day
Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state.
nationalism
The legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land.
primogeniture
An arrangement in which a number of investors pool their money as capital investment.
joint-stock companies
A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations.
charter
Closing down an entity & dividing up what remians, esp. selling off business assets to earn profit or settle debts.
liquidate
An official count of population, which often includes other informaton about the people counted.
census
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native people, fauna, & flora.
indigenous
The action of trading goods or other services for other goods or services without using money.
barter
Concerning the hierarchical, decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled.
feudal
A poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, in exchange for such benefits as transportation, training, or protection.
indentured servant
Originally, freedom of worship granted by an established church to a religious minority.
toleration
A frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others, or land not yet officially opened for settlement.
squatter
A small territory between two larger, antagonistic powers, established to minimize the possiblity of conflict between them.
buffer
Popular American term for an ethnically diverse populations that is presumed to be blending some common homogenous national identity
melting pot
