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List of Words for Letter 'C'

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• canal an inland waterway built by people for transportation or irrigation
• capital city where government leaders meet
• capitol a building where governments meet and laws are made
• checks and balances the system in which the power of each branch of government is balanced by the powers of the other branches
• circle graph a graph in the shape of a circle that shows the sizes of different parts of a whole; also called a pie graph
• citizen a person who is born in a country or who has earned the right to become a member of the country by law
• citizenship the condition of being a citizen
• city council a legislative branch of city government; a group of representatives that makes a city's laws and decides how it should spend its money.
• city manager a person hired to run the city's daily business
• civil rights the rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law
• civil war a war between regions or groups within a country
• Civil War the war between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South from 1861 to 1865
• clan a group of families who share the same ancestors
• clan mother the head of a clan among the Iroquois people
• climate the pattern of weather of a certain place over many years
• coast the land along a body of water
• colony a place that is ruled by another country
• commute to travel a distance each day from one's home to one's workplace
• Confederacy in the United States, the name adopted by the 11 Southern states during the Civil War
• congestion overcrowding of cities or highways
• Congress the legislative branch of the United States government
• consequence the possible result of a choice or an action
• conservation the careful use of natural resources
• constitution a plan of government
• continent one of Earth's seven great bodies of land - Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America
• Continental Congress group of colonists who first met in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss how the colonies should deal with Great Britain
• convention a formal meeting held for a special purpose
• council a group of people who meet to talk and make decisions
• county one of the sections into which a state or country is divided
• culture a way of life shared by a group of people