Governing the New Nation Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Where newly settled areas meet unsettled but not necessarily uninhabited areas

• electoral college

• diverse

• oath of office

• frontier

Having many different types of parts

• diverse

• currency

• domestically

• debt

Lower courts that are organized according to region.

• oath of office

• electoral college

• frontier

• Judicial circuit

A system of money

• debt

• precedent

• currency

• frontier

An example for future actions or decisions

• frontier

• precedent

• domestically

• debt

A group of representatives who elect the president and vice president based on the popular vote in each state.

• electoral college

• inagural ceremony

• oath of office

• judicial circuit

The series of official events in which a newly elected candidate is installed in, or takes, office

• debt

• domestically

• inaugural ceremony

• oath of office

A promise made by a government official to obey the law and fulfill the responsibilities of their job.

• domestically

• oath of office

• debt

• frontier

Money owed after borrowing it.

• frontier

• precedent

• domestically

• debt

Relating to or originating with a country; nationally

• precedent

• domestically

• currency

• frontier