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History and Governments of the United States and Canada
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| colony | overseas settlement tied to a parent country |
| annex | declare ownership of an area |
| terrorism | violence used against the people or government in the hopes of winning political goals |
| dominion | self-governing country in the British Empire |
| representative democracy | form of government in which voters choose leaders who make and enforce the laws |
| federalism | form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the state governments |
| amendment | an addition to a legal document or law |
| parliamentary democracy | form of government in which voters elect representatives to a law-making body called Parliament, and members of Parliament vote for an official called the prime minister to head the government |
| economy | way of producing goods |
| regime | government |
| principle | rule or guideline |
| core | basic or fundamental |