| A | B |
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| Service economy | Teaching, Programming computers, Medicine |
| Values | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgetments and decisions |
| Popular sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people |
| Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Immigrants | A person who moves permantly to a new country |
| Government | The ruling authority for a community |
| Budget | A plan for collecting and spending money |
| Direct Democracy | All citizens met to debate government matters and vote firsthand |
| Representative democracy | citizen choose a smaller group to represent them |
| Monarch | Ruled by a king or gueen |
| Authoritarian | Power is held by an individual or a group not accountable to the people |
| Social contract | An agreement amoung the people in a society |
| Precedent | A ruling in an earlier case that was similar |
| Common law | It rest on court decision rather than regulations written by lawmakers |
| House of Burgesses | A representaticve form of government |
| Charter | A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial government |
| parliament | Great Britain legislature body |
| Southern Colonies | Cash Crops |
| New England Colonies | Ship |