| A | B |
|---|
| colony | oversea settlement tied to a parent country |
| annex | join or add to a larger thing |
| terrorism | use of violence against civilians (individuals or groups) to reach political goals |
| dominion | territory under the control of one rule |
| representative democracy | voters choose leaders who make and enforce laws |
| federalism | power is divided between the federal, or national government, and the state governments |
| amendment | additions |
| parliamentary democracy | voters elect representatives to a law-making body called Parliament |
| ban | legally blocked |
| suburb | smallercommunity surrounding a larger city |
| indigenous | people who are descended from the area's first inhabitants |
| bilingual | having two official languages |
| agriculture | the practice of growing crops and raising livestock |
| civil rights | the basic rights that belong to all citizens |
| billingual | having two official languages |
| separatists | a group that wants to break away from control by a dominant group |
| industry | the manufacturing and making of products to sell |
| nomadic | describes a way of life in which a person or group of people lives by moving from place to place |
| mission | a Catholic-based community in the west |
| frontier | a region just beyond the edge of a settled area |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that it was the right of Americans to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean |
| reservation | an area of land that has been set aside for Native Americans |
| First Nations | Canadian term ative Americans |
