Semeser 1 Final - Terms Flashcards
Church members elect their leaders
Congregationalism
A law passed the required parents to get education for their children.
Act of 1642
A movement the rekindled the spiritual life of the colonies.
Great Awakening
Rights that cannot be given by government but given by God.
Unalienable Right
Any system of public rule or authority.
Government
Marring God’s image
Human Depravity
Conformity to a standard
Righteousness
The opposite of dictatorship
Popular Government
That power resides on regional governments
Confederate Government
Protects state power from the federal government
10th Amendment
The divisions of a country
Townships
Groups of elites rule a country
Oligarchy
When the people directly effect the government’s policy and actions.
Direct Democracy
Ruled by one person with supreme authority.
Autocracy
Absence of government
Anarchy
A government with power divided among national regional and local levels
Federalism
When the people directly elect their leader independent of the legislature
Presidential System
Government by the people
Democracy
A certain legal procedures enforced to protect the rights of the accused.
Due Process
The first Ten Amendments
Bill of Rights
The largest part of all voters who participate in governemnt electives.
Popular Majority
All citizens are the same
Equality
Largest group of elected officials.
Representative Majority
Largest group of the electorate.
Majority Rule
The first representative assembly in the new world.
House of Burgesses
One of two catalytic events foisted on American colonies by the
Stamp Act of 1765
Active protest in which business is withheld or refused.
Boycott
That was an assembly of American leaders that issued the Declaration of Independence
Second Continental Congress
Along with Christian political thought, this line of thinking was a major influence on those who created the Declaration of Independence.
Age of Enlightenment
Opposed constitution’s ratification
Anti-Federalist
Proposed making representation in the lower house based upon state population
The Great Compromise
Body of early American leaders that created the government we have today.
Constitutional Convention
Body of early American leaders that drafted a propsoal to meet and create a new government
Annapolis Convention
Supported the ratification of the constitution
Federalist
1st Amendment
Freedom of Expression
3rd Amendment
No quartering of troops
5th Amendment
Rights of the accused are protected
7th Amendment
Rights of the citizens in civil trials
9th Amendment
Unspecified rights of the people.
10th Amendment
Reserved rights of the state’s
12th Amendment
Separate ballast for president and vice-president.
14th Amendment
Citizenship Defined
16th Amendment
Income Tax
18th Amendment
National Prohibition
The principle that government is formed by the consent of the governed
Social Contract
