Vocab Review

An area of land given to a lord or baron by a king to rule.

• Peasant

• Serf

• Turf

• Fief

To add on land or a territory as done to Texas

• Annex

• Frontier

• Charter

• Prospect

Moved from another country; has an established residence (home)

• Immigrant

• Ward

• Asylum Seeker

• Refugee

A system of government where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units.

• Federalism

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

The economic system where trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

• Communism

A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale.

• Ranch

• Plantation

• Homestead

• Orchard

The movement of people from rural areas to cities, often in search of better job opportunities.

• Urbanization

• Migration

• Colonization

• Industrialization

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

• Dictatorship

The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.

• Ethnocentrism

• Nationalism

• Racism

• Cultural Relativism

A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Republic