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APUSH ch 10 Vocab
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History
10th Grade
01/04/2012

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An official count of population
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census
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the debt of a gov't or nation to individual creditors
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public debt
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the body of official advisers to the head of a gov't; in the US, it consists of the heads of the major executive departments
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cabinet
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a court that hears cases in several designated locations rather than a single place
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circuit court
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concerning public finances - expenditures and revenues
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fiscal
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The approbation or taking on of obligations not originally one's own
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assumption
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a tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products
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excise
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the shares of capital ownership gained from investing in a corporate enterprise
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stock
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any item, paper or otherwise, used as money
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medium of exchange
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arbitrary or tyrannical rule
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depotism
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to force people or property into public service without choice, conscript
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impress
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the merging of diverse cultures or peoples into one
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assimilation
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an investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition
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witch-hunt
THERE IS A DASH THERE, MKAY?
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an agreement or covenant between states to preform some legal act
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compact
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in american politics, the assertion that a state may legally invalidate a federal act inconsistent with its rights or sovereignty
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nullification
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