Vocabulary
A leader who has total control over a country.
What is a dictator?
A system to keep one branch of government from becoming more powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
Serves as Canada's head of state.
What is the British Monarch?
Sports that were brought from Europe to Mexico that are now Mexican favorites.
What is soccer and bullfighting?
Latin American countries returned to Democracy by what year.
What is the 1980's?
Power is divided between the central and state governments.
What is Federalism?
The two houses of Congress that form the legislative branch.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Serves as the head of a democratic government.
What is a Prime Minister?
The person who leads the national government.
What is a president?
The name of the group of people who helped fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino.
What are Sandinistas?
When the voters chose leaders who make and enforce laws.
What is a representative democracy?
Their purpose was to prevent the government from taking away people's freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A document that lists Canadian citizens' rights.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
What is the Institutional Revolutionary Party?
The name of the revolution that stopped the dictatorship in Nicaragua.
What is the Sandinista Revolution?
An assembly of people who pass the laws governing a nation.
What is a Parliament?
A right and responsibility that all Americans have.
What is the right to vote.
A group of people who chooses the prime minister in Canada.
What is the Parliament?
How government powers are divided in Mexico.
What is power divided between the national and state governments?
A system where the entire government is controlled by the central government.
What is Communism?
Rich Latin American men who supported the upper class.
What are Caudillos?
One responsibility that both the central and state governments have control over.
What is collecting taxes?
A difference with the Canadian constitution compared to the U.S. constitution.
What is Canada's constitution that has multiple documents?
A similarity between the U.S. and Mexican government.
What is a representative democracy made up of states and is led by the president?
The reason why the U.S. went to war with Spain.
Why is Spain being blamed for the explosion of the U.S. Maine?