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Appropriation - ✔✔money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
Apportionment - ✔✔Distribution of representatives among the states based on the
population of each state
Reconstruction - ✔✔the period after the Civil War in the United States when the
southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
Sedition - ✔✔an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to
cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Bipartisan - ✔✔representing two political parties
Sanctions - ✔✔something that forces obedience with a law or rule
Anarchy - ✔✔a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of
government)
Ballot - ✔✔the device voters use to register a choice in an election
Sharecropper - ✔✔A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the
rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
,Charter - ✔✔During the English colonial times the king whould give certain rights
Agression - ✔✔any warlike act by one county against another without a just cause
Center - ✔✔It could be used as another term for independent
Civil liberties - ✔✔the guarantees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property
from the arbitrary acts of government, including freedom of speech and freedom of
religion
Civil rights - ✔✔the rights due to all citizens no matter what color or gender
Doctrine - ✔✔(n.) a belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or
principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles
Dove - ✔✔an emblem of peace
Autonomy - ✔✔self-government, political control
Prohibition - ✔✔a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
Propaganda - ✔✔information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or
harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Disarmament - ✔✔the reduction of armed forces and weapons as a result of a
agreement between nations
,Bourgeosie - ✔✔the middle class
Fair deal - ✔✔An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman
that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the
Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress.
Empire - ✔✔A group of states, colones of terriotories joined together under the rule
of domenment power
Emigration - ✔✔migration from a place (especially migration from your native
country in order to settle in another)
Edict - ✔✔a formal or authoritative proclamation
Trusteeship - ✔✔Commission from the United Nations to a country to look after a
region, territory, or colony until the people of that land are believed ready for
independence and self-government.
Amnesty - ✔✔a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any
act of forgiveness or absolution
Amendment - ✔✔a change in, or addition to, a constitution or law
Alliance - ✔✔a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between
nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
, Allegiance - ✔✔the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their
sovereign)
Alien - ✔✔One who owes allegiance to a government or country other then the
country in which he or she resides
Agency - ✔✔Bureau that administers a governmental function
Administration - ✔✔Term of office of the excutive branch of government
Whig - ✔✔a supporter of the American Revolution also member of political party
that supported limitation of presidential power and opposed the democrates in the US
1836-1856
Values - ✔✔Soical principals, goals or standards held or accepted by an. Individual,
class or society
Delegate - ✔✔a person appointed or elected to represent others and a
representative to a convention
Medievil - ✔✔the time period in western European history known as the Middle Ages
it's between the 9th and 15th centuries
Manifesto - ✔✔a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or
government)
Mandate - ✔✔Authority givien by the league of nations to one nation to administer a
territory or geoghrapic area
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