The USA in the 21st Century
Products brought into one country from another.
What is imports?
What is citizens?
A proposed law.
What is bill?
What is cabinet?
What is federal?
Products sent from one country to another.
What is exports?
A rule made by the government that people must obey.
What is law?
A government official who presents the president in other countries.
What is ambassador?
A place where a judge and often a jury hear disagreements.
What is court?
What is global?
A document the king of England signed into law in 1215 that guaranteed certain rights to people in England.
What is Magna Carta?
Made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is congress?
The leader of the United States Department of State, which deals with other countries.
What is secretary of state?
A legal process to decide an issue such as guilt or innocence.
What is trial?
The use of violence by a person or organized group to frighten societies or governments, often for political reasons or to promote their own beliefs.
What is terrorism?
When each part of government is separated from the other and has a special function.
What is separation of powers?
Consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group.
What is representative?
To stop a bill from becoming a law.
What is veto?
To ask a higher court to review a lower court's decision.
What is appeal?
Material in nature that people value, such as wood fresh water, petroleum, and minerals.
What is natural resource?
The writers of the Magna Cart and the Enlightenment thinkers provided important ideas for the American founders to create this.
What is the United States Constitution?
A group of people appointed for a specific function by a larger group and typically consisting of members of that group.
What is committee?
Second person in command of a country.
What is Vice President?
An action that is against the law.
What is crime?