Government & Rights
This is the right of a group to control its own affairs.
What is Self-Determination?
This is the source or beginning of a river.
What are Headwaters?
The buying and selling of goods and services.
What is Commerce?
Relating to plants or plant life.
What is Botanical?
A widespread outbreak of disease.
What is an Epidemic?
This term means to give permission or agreement.
What is Consent?
A person who leaves their home country to live in another.
What is an Emigrant?
A person who starts a business, taking on financial risks.
What is an Entrepreneur?
When two rivers meet, they form this.
What is a Confluence?
This is a term for a goal or purpose one wants to achieve.
What is an Objective?
The government’s right to take private land for public use with compensation.
What is Eminent Domain?
This person lives on land without legal rights.
What is a Squatter?
Something given, usually money, for loss or damage.
What is Compensation?
An allowance of more than enough resources, often used to describe resources.
What is Abundant?
This is a source of help in a difficult situation.
What is Recourse?
Trying to influence officials to make a certain decision.
What is Lobby?
The process of absorbing into a larger culture.
What is Assimilate?
Wealth or success in life, often used to describe economic success.
What is Prosperity?
The beginning of a river.
What are Headwaters?
Something given, usually money, to make up for a loss or damage.
What is Compensation?
An area of land set aside specifically for Native Americans.
What is Reservation?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A fixed allowance of food or supplies.
What is a Ration?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The fixed allowance of provisions given to someone in need.
What is a Ration?