| A | B |
|---|
| a usual way of doing something | custom |
| a person who comes to live in one country from another country | immigrant |
| a early family member | ancestor |
| a narrow piece of land that connects two larger areas | isthmus |
| riches | wealth |
| belief about God or gods | religion |
| making one person the property of another | slavery |
| being very poor | poverty |
| people made up of people from the same country | ethnic group |
| the way of life for a certain ethnic group | culture |
| freedom | independence |
| a system for deciding what is best for a group of people | government |
| a form of government where the peoople rule | democracy |
| representatives who decide the laws for all the people | representative democracy |
| freedom that belongs to a person | right |
| something a person should do | responsibility |
| money government collects from its citizens | tax |
| a large, or sudden change in government or people's lives | revolution |
| a statement explaining why the country should be free | declaration of independence |
| the plan for the country's federal government | constitution |
| this branch makes the laws | legislative |
| the branch that sees that the laws passed by Congress are carried out | executive |
| this branch sees that the laws are carried out fairly | judicial |
| the most important court in the country | supreme court |
