Chapter 11 Vocabulary

leadership style in which government authority is imposed onto many aspects of citizen's lives

• dictatorship

• authoritarian

• democracy

• communism

settlement of a conflict or disagreement by each side giving up something in order to get something

• belittle

• trade

• altercation

• compromise

written plan for government

• constitution

• democracy

• Bill of Rights

• ammendments

gathering of people meeting for a common purpose

• electoral college

• convention

• election

• assembly

people selected to represent the U.S. states by formally casting the votes that officially select the president and vice president in the U.S

• voters

• electors

• electoral college

• framers

system of government in which states share power with the national government

• federalism

• communism

• democracy

• centralized government

person who shapes or creates a plan or system

• authoritarian

• author

• electoral college

• framer

trade without taxes or other restrictions

• unrestricted trade

• free trade

• fair trade

• limited trade

rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government

• regional rights

• local rights

• national rights

• states' rights

plan that stated that larger states should have more representation in the national government

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5's Compromise