Vocabulary

Definition: a person who is running away from legal authority

• indentured servant

• slave

• fugitive

• renegade

Definition: to make a request of the government

• resolution

• petition

• appeal

• veto

a change, correction, or improvement added to a document

• resolution

• amendment

• compromise

• veto

Definition: a person who is running away from legal authority

• indentured servant

• slave

• fugitive

• renegade

Definition: to make a request of the government

• resolution

• petition

• appeal

• veto

a change, correction, or improvement added to a document

• resolution

• amendment

• compromise

• veto

Definition: a system of government where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units

• democracy

• federalism

• monarchy

• oligarchy

Definition: a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states

• treaty

• alliance

• constitution

• pact

Definition: the right to vote in political elections

• suffrage

• democracy

• autocracy

• republic

Definition: a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority

• federalist

• nationalist

• separatist

• anarchist