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chapter 7 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bicameral | a Goverment body with two different houses or chambers |
| Republic | a form of Goverment that every person and law is elected by the people |
| Ordinance | a law |
| Depreciated | when something goes down in value |
| Depression | a time where economic activity goes down and unemployment rises |
| Manumission | when an enslaved person is freed |
| Proportional | even in size |
| compromise | an agreement people make where both sides get something they want |
| Federalism | sharing power between the the federal and state goverments |
| legislative branch | the branch in the U.S Goverment that makes laws |
| Executive branch | The branch that Carry's out the Laws and policy's of the people. |
| Electorial College | a group that elects the vice and vice president of branches. |
| Judicial branch | the branch of government responsible for interpreting laws |
| Checks and balances | a system where each branch of goverment is able to check eachother |
| Amendment | something added to a document |
| Fedderalism |