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unit 2 study guide
the roots of american democracy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| house of burgesses | america's first self-government. |
| monarchy | ruled by a king or king. |
| mayflower compect | direct democracy; majority rules. |
| english bill of rights | protects the individual freedoms of the people. |
| magna carta | limited the power of the government;"rule of law"- no one is above the law. |
| colony | a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. |
| chater | a grant by a sovereign power creating a corporation, as the royal charters granted to British colonies in America. |
| compact | joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid |
| parliament | england's first representative legislature |
| common law | unwritten rules that become law;based on precedent |
| precedent | a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases. |
| glorious revolution | transfer of power from government to the people; no ruler has more power that people in the legislature. |
| boycott | refuse to have dealings with (a person, organization, etc) or refuse to buy (a product) as a protest or means of coercion. |
| repeal | to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate. |
| ratify | to confirm (something done or arranged by an agent or by representatives) by such action. |
| independence | freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others. |
| mercantilism | a country that sells more goods to other countries that they buy |
| constitution | a detailed writer plan for government |
| delegate | a representative for a meeting |
| burgesses | men who governed the people of jamestown |
| declaration of independence | the law that set independence and for a state to be a state |
| articles of confedertion | the first constitution of the us: it failed because it had too many weakness |
| thomas jefferson | did most of the writing of the declaration of independence |
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