Chapter 2 Vocabulary (Govt.)

The concept that a governments' power was not absolute.

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Direct Democracy

• Levy

• Revenue

A government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Direct democracy

• Levy

• Revenue

A form of government wherein citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf.

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Direct democracy

• Levy

• Revenue

Match the following terms and definitions.

• Legislature

• A written instrument from the authorities of a society granting rights and privileges.

• Boycott

• An agreement prohibiting trade

• Charter

• Not to buy

• Embargo

• the money a government collects from taxes or other sources

• Revenue

• lawmaking body

Match the following terms and definitions.

• ratify

• Theory that people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect is citizens.

• consent

• to approve

• human rights

• rights that are believed to belong justifiably to every person

• draft

• permission or approval

• social contract

• outline or first copy

Match the following terms and definitions.

• creditor

• a person to whom money is owed

• currency

• a tax on imported goods usually reserved for regulating trade with foreign countries.

• tariff

• two-camber legislature

• bicameral

• system of money in general use in a particular country

• unicameral

• Single-chamber legislature

Match the following terms and definitions.

• treaty

• not sanctioned by law

• interstate commerce

• trade between the states

• populous

• having a large population

• extralegal

• A commodity, article or service sold to another country

• export

• a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries

Match the following

• First Continental Congress (1774)

• Meeting held in Philadelphia to revise the Articles; led to creation of a new constitution

• Second Continental Congress (1775-1787)

• First government of the newly independent USA

• Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)

• Assumed the powers of a national government during American Revolution' issued Declaration of Independence.

• Constitutional Convention (1787)

• Explained the reasons the American colonies were angry with Great Britain and confirmed why revolution was justified.

• Declaration of Independence (1776)

• Meeting of colonial representatives to decide what to do about the relationship with Great Britain; imposed an embargo on Britain and boycott on British goods.

Match the following constitutional agreements and compromises.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Proposed unicameral legislature based upon equal representation; to continue as a confederation

• Electoral College

• Proposed bicameral legislature with representation based upon population

• New Jersey Plan

• Enslaved people were to be counted for both representation and taxation

• Virginia Plan

• Voters from each state select electors to choose the president

A loose union of independent states.

• Confederacy

• Democracy

• Federal System

• Unitary System