Civics Terms Flashcards

Rights and duties of members of a state.

Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The notion that power lies with the people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>King or queen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of people that make laws.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of law based on precedent and customs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An agreement among people in a society with a government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Investors provide partial ownership in a company organized for profit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An agreement, or contract, among a group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Area with owner-controlled land and government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Colonial Puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acceptance of other groups, such as religious groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A large estate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Areas of low, flat plains near the seacoast of Virginia and NC.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The philosophy or spirit of equality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The refusal to purchase certain goods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A representative to a meeting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-reliance and freedom from outside control.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A detailed, written plan for government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of individuals or state governments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To vote approval of.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of new constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as 3/5ths of other persons in determining representation in congress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group of people named by each state legislature to select president and vice president.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supporters of the constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers