Unit 2 Vocabulary

Government collection of funds from its citizens to provide services; a tax

• Foreign Aid

• Representation

• Taxation

• Revolution

Powers or privileges granted to people either by an agreement among themselves or by law

• Rights

• Loyalist

• Patriots

• Federalism

Powers or privileges granted to people either by an agreement among themselves or by law

• Constitution

• Revolution

• Representative

• Rights

A document that spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Separation of Powers

• The Great Compromise

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

• Patriots

• Amendment

• Federalism

• Loyalists

American colonists were determined to fight the British until American independence was won

• Loyalists

• Federalism

• Patriots

• Anti-Federalism

A forcible and often violent overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

• Revolution

• Declaration of Independence

• Foreign Aid

• The Great Compromise

The document recording the proclamation of the Second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Amendment

• 3/5 Compromise

A person who is elected by citizens to speak or act for them

• Representative

• Representation

• Ratification

• Federalism

Money, food, military or other resources given or lent by one country to another.

• Constitution

• Foreign Aid

• Patriots

• Taxation