Glossary Flashcards
What does Sovereignty mean?
The right for America to rule itself.
What is The Constitution mean?
How the government interacts with people, stops the federal government from being too powerful.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Protect the rights of American people, granted citizenship and equal civil.
Written by the founding fathers.
What is the Supreme Court?
They are federals in charge of talking on any challenges, ending up in the supreme court.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
An Amendment which protects states rights from being interfered with from the federal government.
What is the Federal system?
The idea of National powers, state powers and shared powers.
What is the Congress?
Formed from the senate and the house of representatives.
What is the Confederacy?
The Southern states that come together, to fight against the Northern states states which were the union.
What is Civil War?
Led to legal freedom for black slaves and minorities.
1861-65
What is the American Dream?
The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
What does WASPs stand for?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Who were the Pilgrim Fathers?
The Puritans and Settlers
Who were the Founding Fathers?
The men who wrote the constitution and who wrote the Bill of Rights
What is the Fillbuster?
If you wanted someone to stand up for you, on a vote on a bill they would talk for hours to stop them.
Also, wouldn’t get toilet breaks.
