1. US History A Unit 1 Academic Vocabulary
Read the definition for each term.
Write a sentence correctly using each term.
You may handwrite on notebook paper, or type your sentence onto the slide and it to me.

2. Enlightenment
Period in European history characterized by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas in favor of education and reasoning.
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3. Levy
To impose or collect by legal authority
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4. Tariff Charge or tax placed on certain imported goods by a government.
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5. Salutary Neglect
British policy that allowed American colonists to rule themselves so long as Britain also benefited.
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6. Unalienable Incapable of being taken away or transferred to another.
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7. Democracy
Government by the people.
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8. Direct Democracy
System of government in which people participate directly in decision making through voting on issues.
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9. Republic
System of government in which people elect representatives to govern them; aka Representative Democracy.
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10. Checks and Balances
A system of constitutional government which guards against absolute power by providing for separate executive, judicial, and legislative bodies who share powers and thereby check and balance one another.
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11. Taxation
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
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12. Representation
Right of being represented by delegates having a voice in legislation or government.
Elected leadership.
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13. Petition
A formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit:
a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
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14. Executive
The person in whom the supreme executive power of a government is vested.
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15. Judicial
The branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
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16. Legislative
the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
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17. Compromise
Settlement of differences in which each side gives up something.
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18. Amendment Use in a sentence
An alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
A change made by correction, addition, or deletion: The editors made few amendments to the manuscript.
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19. Constitution
The system of fundamental principles according to which a nation or state is governed.
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20. Federalism A system of government in which power is
divided between national and state governments.
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21. Natural Rights Any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
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