Social Studies Vocabulary - Nevada
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- Immigration:
- Entering a country of which one is not a native usually for permanent residence;
New Immigrant
refers to immigration
from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe after 1980.
- Impeach:
- To formally accuse a federal official of a wrongdoing.
- Imperialism:
- A policy in which stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, or
militarily; also called expansionism.
- Implied Powers:
- Those powers of the government inferred from the expressed powers: those
necessary and proper
to carry out the
expressed powers.
- Import(s):
- A good or service produced abroad and sold domestically.
- Incentive(s):
- A reward that encourages or a penalty that discourages.
- Income:
- Money or its equivalent received in exchange for labor, for services, from the sale of goods or property, or as earnings on
savings.
- Industrial Revolution:
- A period of major economic change characterized by changing technology, machine production, and the
concentration of workers in urban areas.
- Industrialization:
- The establishment of an economic and social system characterized by large industries, machine production, and the
concentration of workers in urban areas.
- Inflation:
- An increase in the general level of prices.
- Institutions:
- Systems or methods of organizing activities.
- Interdependence:
- The need for individuals and firms to rely on each other as a result of specialization.
- Interest:
- A cost of borrowing money or a benefit of saving money.
- Interest Groups:
- Organized bodies of individuals who share goals and try to influence public policy to meet those goals.
- Interest Rate(s):
- The price (stated as a percentage) paid when money is borrowed, or the price (stated as a percentage) received when
money is saved.
- Intermediate Directions:
- The points of the compass that fall between north and east, north and west, south and east, and south and west
(such as NE, NW, SE, SW).
- International Dateline:
- An imaginary line through the Pacific Ocean, corresponding with 180 degrees longitude, to the east of which, by
international agreement, the calendar date is one day earlier than to the west.
- Invention:
- A new process, technique, or product.
- Investment(s):
- In everyday language, money that is invested with an expectation of profit; but in economics, it is money spent on tools or
training that results in an increase in labor productivity.