Vocab
Definition: a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
Electoral College
Definition: a nation’s overall plan for dealing with other nations
Foreign Policy
Definition: a formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries
Treaty
Definition: an agreement among a group of nations that prohibits them all from trading with a target nation
Embargo
Geography is the study of ____________ in all its variety
Earth
Definition: the study of earth in all its variety
Geography
Definition: a declaration of forgiveness and freedom from punishment
Pardon
Definition: an official representative of a country’s government
Ambassador
Definition: rewarding people with government jobs on the basis of their political support
Spoils System
Spoils system is rewarding people with government jobs on the basis of their ___________________________.
Politicial Support
Definition: an order to delay a person’s punishment until a higher court can hear the case.
Reprieve
Definition: rewarding people with government jobs on the basis of their political support
Spoils System
Definition: an agreement between the president and the leader of another country
Executive Agreement
Definition: a group of advisers to the president that includes the heads of 14 top-level executive departments
Cabinet
The Electoral College is a group of people named by each state legislature to select the _____________ and _______________
President; Vice President
Definition: individual features of the land
Landforms
Definition: the ability to keep the country safe from attack or harm
National Security
Definition: an effort to punish another nation by imposing trade barriers
Trade Sanction
Definition: group of satellites that travels around the earth which can be used to tell exact locations on the earth
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Merit System is hiring people into government jobs on the basis of their ______________________.
Qualifications
Definition: preserved remains or impressions of early humans, animals, or plants.
Fossils
Definition: objects made by early people
Artifact
Definition: special software that helps geographers gather and use information about a place
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Definition: federal board of commission that is not part of any cabinet department
Independent Agency
GPS is a group of ______________ that travels around the earth which can be used to tell exact locations on the earth
Satellites