Unit 2 Vocab Practice- Foundations of US Govt.

Match the description to it's appropriate response.

• Natural Rights

• The group of American colonists who originated our democracy.

• Social Contract

• The idea that people in a society to give up part of their freedom to a government in return for protection of their natural rights

• Limited Government

• Document signed by King John of England that was the beginning of limited government.

• Magna Carta

• Idea that government is, or should be, restricted in what it may do.

• Framers

• idea that all people possess the right to life, liberty, and property and no government may take these away

Match the following.

• Declaration of Independence

• Document attributed to Thomas Jefferson which stated that America was free of British rule.

• Stamp Act

• Publication by Thomas Paine advocating American independence.

• Tea Act

• An unpopular tax that forced Americans to buy British tea.

• Intolerable Acts

• was the first direct tax, on printed goods, passed on American colonists

• Common Sense

• A series of punitive British laws passed in response to the Boston Tea Party.

Match the following

• Absolutism

• Ultimate, supreme power in a state

• Authority

• Right to control or direct the actions of others

• Legitimacy

• belief that the government should have all the power and be able to do whatever it wants

• Tyranny

• Cruel and/or oppressive rule

• Sovereignty

• Acceptance by citizens of the government as being the proper and correct one

Match the following

• Power

• Power of tyrannical governments to seize private property, especially homes, to house soldiers or for general use, even in peace time.

• Due process

• Dividing up and sharing of governmental power among several branches in order to prevent unfair power advantage.

• Petition

• the government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law

• Separation of powers

• The ability to affect others actions , beliefs etc.

• Quartering

• a written request or complaint of citizens to the government.

a written request or complaint of citizens to the government.

• grievance
• petition
• request form
• complaint

Dividing up and sharing of governmental power among several branches in order to prevent unfair power advantage.

• Separation of powers
• Centralized governance
• Delegation of authority
• Concentration of powers

Power of tyrannical governments to seize private property, especially homes, to house soldiers or for general use.

• Land use regulations
• Property tax
• Quartering

• Zoning laws

Idea that the government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law

• Judicial review
• Due process
• Legal representation
• Fair trial

The legal ability to affect others actions , beliefs etc.

• Power

• Coercion
• Influence
• Manipulation

Cruel and/or oppressive rule

• Anarchy
• Tyranny
• Democracy
• Oligarchy