AH Vocab Mid-Term

Question 1

Revenue

Answer 1

Incoming money from taxes or other sources.

Question 2

Effigy

Answer 2

A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual.

Question 3

Commodity

Answer 3

A good that people buy and sell

Question 4

Petition

Answer 4

A formal request for government action.

Question 5

Inflation

Answer 5

When it takes more and more money to buy the same amount of goods; increase in price of goods or services.

Question 6

Bicameral

Answer 6

Having two separate lawmaking chambers.

Question 7

Federalism

Answer 7

Sharing of power between the federal and state governments.

Question 8

Enumerated Powers

Answer 8

Power specifically given to Congress in the Constitution.

Question 9

Reserved Powers

Answer 9

Power belonging only to the states.

Question 10

Concurrent Powers

Answer 10

Power shared by the states and federal government.

Question 11

Indentured Servant

Answer 11

A person who pledges his or her labor for an amount of time in exchange for some payment.

Question 12

Charter

Answer 12

Document from the sovereign granting a right.

Question 13

Headright

Answer 13

Land grant

Question 14

Constitution

Answer 14

Document stating the basic form of a government.

Question 15

Proprietary Colony

Answer 15

Colony in which an owner owned all the land and controlled the government.

Question 16

Export

Answer 16

To sell goods to other countries.

Question 17

Circumnavigate

Answer 17

To travel completely around something.

Question 18

Columbian Exchange

Answer 18

A global trade of people, goods, ideas, and diseases in the 1600s.

Question 19

Clans

Answer 19

A group of people who have a common ancestor.

Question 20

Hieroglyphics

Answer 20

A form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.

Question 21

Federations

Answer 21

A government that links and unites different groups.

Question 22

Civilization

Answer 22

Highly developed society.

Question 23

Theocracy

Answer 23

A society that is ruled by religious leaders.

Question 24

Mercantilism

Answer 24

A theory that a nation’s power depends on its ability to increase wealth by accumulating metals.