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Economics with Calbert at Home School

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Administration

Staff of the executive branch

precedent

Act or statement that becomes an example, rule, or tradition to be followed

Cabinet

group of senior officials appointed by the president that heads the executive departments and advises the president.

tariff

tax on imported goods

loose contruction

belief that the government has any power not forbidden by the constitutuin.

strict construction

belief the the government is limited to powers clearly stated in the constitution.

whiskey rebellion

1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed the federal excise tax on whiskey.

political party

organization of people that seeks to win elections and hold public office in order to shape government policy.

Democratic Republican

led by Jefferson, one of the first political parties in the United States.

Clan

Those belonging to or sharing the same common ancestry make up.

Middle passage

the enforced transport of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas.

Christopher Columbus

Italian explorer, dicovered the West Indies

Conquistador

Spanish Conquer

Columbian Exchange

the global exchange of goods and ideas after Columbus made his first transatlantic voyage in 1492.

House of Burgess

representative assembly of colonial Virginia formed in 1619.

Mayflower Compact

framework for self-government of the Plymouth Colony signed on the ship of the Mayflower in 1620.

Enlightenment

eighteenth-century movement during which European philosophers believed that society's problems could be sloved by reason and science.

Great Awakening

religous movement in the English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, whichwas heavily inspired by evangelical preachers.

English bill of rights

document signed in 1689 that gauranteed the rights of English citizents.

Thomas Jefferson

wrote the constitution, third president of the US and a founding father.

George Wahington

First president of the US.

bill of rights

first tens amendments of the constitution; written list of freedoms guranteed to citizens by the government.

Shay's rebellion

farmer's rebellion led by Daniel Shays against higher taxes in Massachusetts.

James Madison

Known as the father of the constitution

ratify

official approval

federalism

political system in which power is shared between the national government and the state gove.rnment

seperation of powers

principle that devides power among the executive, legislative, and the judicial branches of government.

checks and balances

system in which each branch of the government has the powr to monitor and limit the actions of the other two.

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