Vocab I
Vocab II
Important Things
Past Important Things
Miscellaneous
100
This term refers to a two-house legislature.
What is bicameral?
100
This word means to fall in value.
What is depreciate?
100
This was the name of the legal document which allowed customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods.
What are the writs of assistance?
100
These are the three branches of the government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
200
This term refers to a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
What is a republic?
200
This is a period of time when economic activity slows and unemployment rises.
What is a depression?
200
This term means to approve, as in the Constitution.
What is ratify?
200
These were rag figures that represented unpopular tax collectors.
What are effigies?
200
This is the name given to each part of the Constitution.
What is an article?
300
This was the name of America's first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
This term means the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
What is manumission?
300
This term refers to people who supported the approval of the Constitution.
Who are Federalists?
300
This type of farming means only enough food was produced to meet the needs of farmers' families.
What is subsistence farming?
300
This was a movement that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
This word means "to apply to" as in applying for statehood.
What is petition?
400
This term means "corresponding in size" as in the number of representatives per their population.
What is proportional?
400
This term refers to anything added to a document.
What is an amendment?
400
This term refers to long periods of little rainfall, during which crops dried up.
What is a drought?
400
This is the sharing power between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
500
This ordinance opened the way for settlement of the Northwest Territory in a stable and orderly manner.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1785?
500
This term refers to an agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants.
What is a compromise?
500
This man led a rebellion which forced courts to close so judges could not confiscate farmers' lands.
Who is Daniel Shays?
500
This means to sail around the world.
What is to circumnavigate?
500
This is the system in which the government limits others so that no single branch can dominate the government.
What is the system of checks and balances?
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