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Anai Villarreal per7
Unit 1 Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Direct Democracy | Is a system of government in which an assembly of ordinary citizens make decisions |
Jury | Is a panel of citizens who make judgments in a trail |
Republic | Republic is a system of government in which the people choose representatives who govern in their name |
Legislatute | Is a group of people who have the power too make laws |
Bill of rights | Is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect |
Habeas corpus | The principal that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime |
Cartographer | Map makers |
Christopher Columbus | An Italian sailor |
Colony | A group of people who settled in a new place but are ruled by the government of their native land |
Plantation | A large estate farmed by many workers |