Unit 1 chapter 1,2, Napoleon, 5 Flashcards
What is a large group of people having a common origin, language, tradition, and usage that constitutes a political entity?
Nation
What is a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent?
Nation-State
A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory?
Country
Between two or more nations?
International
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed?
Constitution
___________ considers a nation a community of equal citizens bound by a common territory, history, values, and beliefs?
Civic Nation
The process by which a person controls their own life?
Self- determination
Supreme power or authority. Is the authority of a state to govern itself or another state, & a self-governing state?
Sovereignty
A set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct?
Ethic
What are some understandings of a Nation?
Language, Ethnicity, Culture, Religion, Politics, Geography, Relationship to land, Spirituality
Many British subjects left Britain seeking a new life, to establish a new life, 13 colonies were formed, what is this?
Colonization
the French and British shared a part of the Ohio River valley, which prevented the British from exploring the west. What war was started from this?
battle for North America/7-year war
King George III started to tax the colonies what taxes were put on them?
stamp act, tea tax, sugar tax