Review Vocabulary for Quarterly Assesment

Quarterly Assessment # 1 Review

Vocabulary

Limit – border

Proclamation – official announcement

Doctrine – government foreign policy

Policy – action taken by the government

Pleads – begs

Slain – killed

Dissolve – break up

Abolish – end, stop

Alter - change

Supremacy – controlling rule

Institute – started

Derive – take

Justification – reason for

Anarchy – no law or government

Despotism – tyranny, dictatorship

Laissez-faire – free market capitalism, the government does not control the economy, it keeps its “hands off”

Levy taxes – put a tax on

Grievances – complaints

Bi-Cameral Legislature – two houses – Senate and House (law making divisions)

Mercantilism – British trade policy

Ratify – accept, sign, approve

Establishment – build-up, create

Stake a claim – claim ownership

Ranking political party  – ruling, majority

Universal Suffrage – all people can vote

Interdependence – rely, depend on each other