American History* Word Scramble
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AUTOCRACY | A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power. |
OLIGARCHY | A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite. |
UNITARY GOVERNMENT | Centralized government. |
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT | Powers of government divided between a central government and several local governments. |
DIVISION OF POWERS | A division that cant be changed by either local or national level acting alone. |
CONFEDERATION | Alliance of independent states. |
PRESIDENTAL GOVERNMENT | Executive and legislative branches are seperate. |
PARLIAMENTRY GOVERNMENT | The executive is made up of prime minister and officials cabinet. The Parliamentary Relationship is elected from and part of the legislature. |
LIMITED GOVERNMENT | A concept that was deeply rooted in English belief and practice by the time the first English ships reached the Americas. |
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT | A idea that government should serve the will of the people that had also been developing in England for centuries. |
MAGNA CARTA | The great charter. |
PETITION OF RIGHTS | Limited the king's power in several ways. |
ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS | Prohibited a standing army in peacetime. |
CHARTER | A written grant of authority from the king. |
BICAMERAL | Two house legislature. |
PROPRIETARY | Three colonies in 1775 that consisted of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Deleware. |
UNICAMERAL | One housebody |
POPULAR SOVERIGNITY | Government can exist only with consent of the governed. |
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION | Established a firm league of friendship. |
RATIFACTION | Formal approval. |
VIRGINA PLAN | Government with 3 seperate branches. |
NEW JERSEY PLAN | Retained unicameral Congress of the Confederation. |
CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE | Congress should be composed of 2 houses. |
3/5 THS COMPROMISE | Three fifths of all other persons should be counted. |
COMMERSE& SLAVE TRADE | Congress is forbidden to tax export goods from any state. |
FEDERALISTS | For ratifaction. |
ANTIFEDERALISTS | Agaisnt ratifaction. |
QUORUM | Majority. |
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