Ch 7 Vocab
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| depression | a period when economic activity slows and
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| unemployment | increases
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| manumissions | the freeing of individual enslaved person
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| convention | meeting
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| proportional | having the proper size in relation to other objects or items
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| compromise | a settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands.
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| bicameral | having two separate lawmaking chambers
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| republic | a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
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| ordinance | law
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| depreciate | to fall in value
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| abandon | to give up.
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| clause | a special condition in a formal document
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| Reformation | a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches
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| federalism | sharing power between the federal and state governments
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| legislative branch | lawmaking branch of government
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| executive branch | branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law; headed by the president
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| checks and balances | a system by which each branch of government limits power of other branches
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| amendment | a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
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| tradition | longstanding cultural belief and practice
reside to exist in
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| Electoral College | special group of electors chosen to vote for president and vice president
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| judicial branch | the branch of government that includes the courts that settle disputes and questions of the law.
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