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Reid Government/Cit
Reid Government and Citizenship
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| constitution | The ___ is our set of written laws. |
| Judicial Branch | The ___ uses the constitution to interpret laws. |
| Executive Branch | The ___ enforces laws and is the Chief Commander of Defense. |
| Legislative Branch | The ___ makes laws. |
| Congress | The U.S. legislative branch is called ___. |
| Monarchy | A government with one strong leader who inherits power, usually a king or queen, is called a ___. |
| President | The Executive Branch is made up of the ___, the Vice President, and his cabinet. |
| Supreme Court | The Judicial Branch is the ___. |
| representative | There are two types of Democracy and they are direct and ___ democracies. |
| government | The purpose of ___ is to keep order, to provide services, and to protect the common good. |
| government | A group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country or area is the ___. |
| limited | If a government has a constitution to follow, its powers are ___. |
| authoritarian | An ___ government is one in which all power is held by a single person or small group. |
| foreign policy | A set of goals describing how a country's government plans to interact with other countries' governments is the ___ . |
| United Nations | The ___ is the largest international organization that works for peace. |
| citizen | A ___ is a legal member of a country usually made so by being born within the country. |
| House of Burgesses | The ___ in Jamestown in 1619 was the beginning of representative democracy. |
| French and Indian War | The ___ was expensive so the King of England decided to tax the colonists without representation to pay for it. |
| constitution | The ___ established our three branches of Federal government along with a strong system of checks and balances. |
| Mayflower Compact | The Pilgrims signed the ___ before landing, to ensure that all members of the colony would follow the majority rules with laws in the colony. |
| chronology | A timeline is in a _________________, a list of events in the order they happened. |
| archaeology | ___________ is the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence. |
| primary | A ______________ source is information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event. |
| secondary | Information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event is a ________ source. |
| prehistory | _______ is the time before humans invented writing. |
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