Chapter 1 AGS United States Government
Terms
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- Government
- Laws and Customs people live by
- colonist
- person who settles in a new country
- Democracy
- rule by the people
- veto
- reject or forbid a rule or law
- dictator
- person who rules wiht total control
- Senate
- a governing body that make rules and laws
- Jury
- citizens in court wholisten to both sides and decide verdict
- Monarchy
- rule by a royal family
- constitution
- A plan for government
- Puritan
- A member of a reigious group
- Stamp Act
- Taxes on American on papers, phamphlets and playig cards
- Minutemen
- armed men who fought in the Revolutionary War
- Magna Carta
- Limited the power of the King
- The Second Continental Congress
- ran the government during the Revolutionary War
- Declaration of Independence
- Listed the grievances against the king