| A | B |
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| constitution | A plan of government for a country. |
| republic | A country where the people elect representatives to run the country. |
| federal government | The national government. |
| Washington, D.C. | The place where our federal government is located. |
| citizens | A person who is born in a country or who chooses to become a member of that country by law. |
| civil rights | The individual rights of a citizen under the law |
| democracy | Where the people make the laws and run the government. |
| history | The study or record of what happend in the past. |
| primary source | Information that comes from the time being studied. |
| secondary source | An account of the past written by someone who was not an eywitness to those events. |
| perspectives | Points of view. |
| oral history | Spoken records. |
| historian | A person who studies the past. |
