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| Question | Answer |
| CIVICS | Study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| E PLURIBUS UNUM | "Out of many one." |
| POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY | sovereignty of the people's rule iin the principle |
| NATURALIZATION | the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality |
| DUAL CITIZENSHIP | multiple citizenship, |
| IMMAGRANTS | people moving to another place without citizenship |
| REFUGEE | person outside their country |
| MELTING POT | metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" |
| SALAD BOWL THEORY | immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures like in the melting pot model, instead they retain them. |
| 14th AMENDEMENT | deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws |
| GOVERNMENT | system by which srar or community is controlled |
| autocracy | system of government by one person with absolute power. |
| oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution |
| democracy | all people are involved in making decisions about its affairs |
| direct democracy | people are allowed to vote |
| representative democracy | is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people |
| Enlightenment | a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition |
| Magna Carta | a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede |
| Glorious Revolution | was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau |
| English Bill Of Rights | is an act that the Parliament of England passed on December 16, 1689, creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen |
| Mayflower Compact | was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony |
| House of Burgesses | was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies |
| Bicameral | having two branches or chambers |
| John Locke | was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" |
| Natural Rights | The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| Social Contract | is a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment |
| Baron de Montesquieu | was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment |
| Separation of Powers | an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. |
| Triangular Trade | is a historical term indicating trade among three |
| Salutary neglect | as Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole |
| French Indian War | was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War |
| Mercantilist | belief in the benefits of profitable trading |
| Stamp act | an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies |
| Boycott | withdraw from commercial or social relations as a punishment or protest |
| Boston Massacre | was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers |
| Boston Tea Party | was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773,taxes on the tea |
| Intolerable Act | were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War |
| First Continental Congress | was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia |
| Olive Branch Petition | drafted on July 5, 1775, was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress |
| Second Continental Congress | was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775 |
| Declaration of Independence | the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain |
| Daniel Shays’ Rebellion | the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt |
| Philadelphia Convention | The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches |
| James Madison | was a political theorist, American statesman, and served as the fourth President of the United States |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776 |
| Quartering Act | is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing |
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