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chapter six vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amend | to change |
| article | a specific section of a document |
| artillery | canons or other forms of weaponry |
| bicameral | having two legislative parts |
| compromise | an agreement reached when one side gives up part of its demands |
| federal republic | a government in which the the states work together and the nation work together in a federation ruled by the citizens |
| federation | a union of organizations |
| foreign policy | the decisions a nation makes involving other nations |
| impressment | an act of kidnapping and making them work |
| neutrality | a state of taking nether side |
| popular sovereignty | a concept of were the government's power come directly from the people |
| preamble | the opening section of the constitution |
| ratification | approval |
| representative democracy | a type of government in which the people elect representatives to serve in the government and give representatives to make the decisions for them. |
| rule of law | the idea that not just one person rules the nation but the laws as well |
| separation of church and state | the principle of that there is not one official religion |
| squatter | a farmer who settled on land without legal ownership |
| status quo antebellum | the way things were before the war |