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100
The legislative branch in GA is called this
What is General Assembly?
100
Serves as the state militia under the governor's control
What is National Guard?
100
This is how state governments recieve their money; used to fund public programs
What is tax revenues?
100
The center of business and culture; innovation and societal change
What is a city?
100
Public assessors determine this in order to set property taxes
What is market value?
200
The largest number of votes in an election in the state
What is plurality?
200
A document that grants businesses the rights, powers and priveleges of a corporation
What is a corporate charter?
200
Taxes in which the percentage you pay increases with the amount of money you make
What is Progressive tax?
200
A human settlement bigger than a village but smaller than a city
What is a town?
200
Group responsible for setting school policies, hiring a superintendant, and overseeing the day-to-day operations of a school
What is a school board?
300
The process of allowing states to remove governors from office if they lose support
What is recall?
300
An organization that supplies electricity, gas, telephone services etc.
What is public utilities?
300
Tax imposed on purchased products
What is sales tax?
300
Defined as an area of more than 2500 people that generally refers to the downtown area of a city
What is urban?
300
This is when large investments by local governments are used to promote economic growth
What is revitalization?
400
A case between two parties
What is a civil case?
400
Payments for people injured on the job
What is workers' compensation?
400
Tax on selected products such as cigarettes, gas, alcohol, etc.
What is excise tax?
400
Outside the city, a place where people live and commute to work
What is suburban?
400
This occurs when land redevelopment projects occur in urban areas
What is urban renewal?
500
The court which handles marriages, minor civil and criminal cases such as traffic, parking tickets, divorces and legal documents
What is minor court?
500
Compensation for people that lose their job through no fault of their own
What is unemployment compensation?
500
Name of revenue sent from the federal gov't to the states
What is Intergovernmental revenue?
500
FORMED WHEN SEVERAL METROPOLITAN AREAS GROW TOGETHER
What is megalopolis?
500
What it's called when people are moved in or out of a neighborhood to change the area's property value
What is gentrification?