Social Studies Vocabulary - Nevada
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- Citizen(s):
- One who owes allegiance to a nation and is entitled to its protection.
- Civil Court:
- A court that handles cases relating to disputes between two or more individuals or organizations.
- Civilization(s):
- An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts
and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.
- Civil Rights:
- Equal treatment of all people with respect to protection of the law and to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property.
- Class:
- People having the same social or economic status.
- Cold War:
- A period of conflict, tension, and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, from
the mid 1940's until the early 1990's.
- Colonial Rule:
- The extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies or
administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled or displaced.
- Command Economy:
- An economic system in which goods and services are allocated by a central authority.
- Commerce:
- The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations.
- Commodity (commodities):
- An object that has use value of its own. Sometimes commodities like gold can be used as money.
- Communism:
- An economic and political system in which property and goods are owned by the government and products are shared by all.
- Community (communities):
- Interaction of people in a common area; places where people live, work, and play.
- Compass Rose:
- Map graphic displaying cardinal directions.
- Competition:
- The rivalry among sellers and rivalry among buyers in a market.
- Complex Maps (special purpose/thematic/complex maps):
- A map representing a specific spatial distribution, theme, or topic, for example
population density, cattle production, or climates of the world.
- Concurrent Powers:
- Any powers that may be exercised by both the federal government and state governments.
- Constitution:
- Body of fundamental law, setting out the basic principles, structures, processes, and functions of a government, and placing
limits upon its actions.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI):
- An index that measures the average level of prices of goods and services typically consumed by an urban
American family.
- Consumer(s):
- A person who buys and uses goods and services.
- Corporation(s):
- A business with multiple owners, whose director and officers are individually liable, but all owners (shareholders and
stockholders) are not.
- Cost(s):
- Anything lost or sacrificed when a choice is made.
- Credit:
- Money borrowed or the capacity to borrow money.
- Credit Rating:
- A number that reflects the quality of a borrower regarding the likelihood of being consistent on paying bills and making loan
payments on time.
- Criminal Court:
- A court that handles cases relating to the violation of law.
- Cultural Characteristic:
- Social groups, language, religion, daily life, arts, government systems, economic systems, and history.
- Cultural Diffusion:
- The spreading of a cultural trait (e.g., material object, idea, or behavior pattern) from one society to another.
- Cultural Identity:
- The cultural background and behavioral distinctiveness an individual tends to identify with and be associated.
- Culture:
- Learned behavior of people, which includes their belief systems and languages, their social relationships and customs, their
institutions and organizations, and their material.