A | B |
"We the people..in order to form a more perfect Union" | The Preamble to the Constitution |
"We hold these truths to be self-evident" | Declaration of Independence |
"Give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
"I regret that I have but one live to give..." | Nathan Hale |
"We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately" | Benjamin Franklin |
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy" | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
popular sovereigny | rule by the people |
federalism | power is shared by the national and state governments |
checks and balances | each branch can control (to a degree) the other two branches |
separation of powers | power is split among three branches |
republicanism | people vote for representatives |
businesses owned by all in a society who share the work and profits | Socialism |
Representatives elected to govern | Republic |
Strong, central government with a dictator (like Mussolini) | Totalitarianism |
Collectivization eliminated private property | Communism |
"Total" rule of a dictator who does not abide by laws or a constitution | Fascism |
Something that actually existed, was written, or filmed in a time period | Primary source |
Something about a time period or event that was not experienced first hand | Secondary source |
The process of "staying uninvolved" as the U.S. at the start of WWII | isolationism |
Great Britain and France tried to satisfy Hitler initially usiing this policy | appeasement |