Foundations Vocabulary Flashcards

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Civics

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Understanding the laws of our land—how they are made, and how they can be changed if they do not serve us

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Direct Democracy

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Voters would gather in one place, and by a show of hands, make their wishes known.

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republic

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A government led by elected representatives rather than by a king or queen

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Magna Carta

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The “Great Charter,” (1215), presented a list of complaints and, set forth the principle that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law.

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Representative system of Government

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People elect officeholders to make laws and run the nation for them.

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grievances

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complaints

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Declaration of Independence

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A document written by Thomas Jefferson (1776) that lists all the colonists’ grievances against the king declared the colonists’ independence. 

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Virginia Declaration of Rights

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A document written by George Mason (1776) to protect the rights of Virginia’s colonists and the basis for the Bill of Rights.

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inalienable

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a right that cannot be taken away from a person.

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Treaty of Paris

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Officially ended the American Revolution in 1783