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Unit 1 Chapter 1
Ilse Maldonado Otiz Per.8
Term | Definition |
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direct democracy | a system of government in which an assembly of ordinary citizens makes decisions. |
jury | a panel of citizens who make judgements in a trial. |
republic | a system of government in which the people choose representatives who govern in their name. |
legislature | a group of pleope who hate the power to make laws. |
bill of rights | a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect. |
habeas corpus | the principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime. |
cartographer | mapmakers. |
Christopher Columbus | by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean he brought Europe and the Americans into contact. |
colony | is a group of people who settle in new place but are ruled by the government on their native land. |
plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers. |