AP Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards
Vocabulary List 1
Bicameral
Def: (of a legislative body) Having two branches or chambers. Part Of Speech: Adjective.
Coercion
Def: The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Demagogue
Def: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument./(in ancient Greece and Rome) A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Despotism
Def: The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way./A country or political system where the ruler holds absolute power. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Direct Democracy
Def: Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly.
Representative Democracy
Def: Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.
Enlightenment
Def: the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened./The action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth.(2) A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Part Of Speech: Noun. Ex:
Federalist Papers
Def: The Federalist Papers definition. A series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in the late 1780s to persuade the voters of New York to adopt the Constitution.
Imperialism
Def: A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force./Rule by an emperor. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Institution
Def: A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose./an organization providing residential care for people with special needs./An established official organization having an important role in the life of a country, such as a bank, church, or legislature./A large company or other organization involved in financial trading.(2)An established law, practice, or custom./A well-established and familiar person, custom, or object.(3)The action of instituting something. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Nation State
Def: A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Popular Sovereignty
Def: Popular sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the people’s rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
Separation Of Power
Def: An act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
