Government Foundations
This principle states that the people hold the ultimate power in government.
What is popular sovereignty?
The branch of government responsible for making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
A person running for political office.
What is a candidate?
The first governing document of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A political system where the state has total control over all aspects of life.
What is totalitarian rule?
The study of how individuals and small businesses make economic decisions.
What is microeconomics?
The division of government into three branches to prevent abuse of power.
What is separation of powers?
The group of advisors to the president.
What is the Cabinet?
An organized effort to win an election.
What is a campaign?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The systematic murder of six million Jews during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
The total value of goods and services produced in a country.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
A system where each branch of government can limit the powers of the others.
What are checks and balances?
The power of the president to reject a law passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
The system used to officially elect the U.S. president.
What is the Electoral College?
When Southern states left the Union before the Civil War.
What is seceded?
The alliance including the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union in WWII.
What are the Allied Powers?
A situation where prices rise over time.
What is inflation?
The idea that government must follow a written set of rules.
What is constitutionalism?
The national lawmaking body made up of the House and Senate.
What is Congress?
A group that tries to influence government decisions based on shared interests.
What is an interest group/lobbyist?
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
A policy of avoiding involvement in foreign conflicts.
What is isolationism?
The amount of goods available compared to how much people want them.
What are supply and demand?
A system of government where power is divided between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
The branch that interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Laws enforcing racial separation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The competition for power and influence among countries based on geography.
What is geopolitics?
The cost of the next best alternative when making a decision.
What is opportunity cost?