Vocab 1
people can govern themselves & elect their own leader(s)
What is democracy?
a judgment about something, but not necessarily based on facts
What is an opinion?
makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
the year white men who owned land could first vote
What is 1776?
the two major political parties in the United States
What are Republican and Democrat?
something that is true
a person or thing considered to be of the same value as another
What is equal?
carries out laws
What is the executive branch?
1856
What is the year the state dropped the requirement that men must own property to vote?
What is 1889?
an area of land set aside for occupation by North American Indians
What is a reservation?
spreading power around to different branches of government
What is a system of checks and balances?
interprets laws
What is the judicial branch?
the year women besides African American women could vote
What is 1920?
the majority votes, but minority rights must be protected
a list of principles and laws that say how an organization/government is to be governed
What is a constitution?
takes care of its citizens, makes national laws, protect basic freedoms of all Americans that are spelled out in the Bill of Rights
What is government?
number of representatives is based on the population of the state
What is the House of Representatives?
the year the Voting Rights Act banned states from passing laws that prevented African-Americans from voting
What is 1965?
in a democracy, people have to find solutions to problems that everyone can live with, even if no one is totally happy with the result
What is "the Art of the Possible, sometimes called "the art of compromise?"
when a woman married, she no longer had any legal existence separate from her husband
government is guided by the law, not by what one person, or group of people, wants to do
What is the rule of law?
the only branch that can declare war
What is the executive branch? (The president of the executive branch leads the military in times of war).
1971
What is the year the voting age was lowered to 18?
the fact that laws must be approved by the executive branch is an example of this