Theme History-How America Works

Vocabulary Word List for History-How America Works (230)

• A

  acts, administration, adoption, advantage, advice, advise, advocate, affiliation, agenda, agreement, allocate, article, assist, attitude, authority, authorization

• B

  balance, ballot, basic, belief, bicameral, bipartisan, bipartisanship, branch, budget, bureaucracy

• C

  cabinet, campaign, candidate, capital, caucus, check, citizenship, clause, cloture, committee, concurrent, conduct, consent, constituent, constitution, contribute, contribution, control, cooperation, council, court, courtesy, crossover, curtail

• D

  debate, debt, decision, deficit, delay, delegate, democracy, department, detente, direct, doctrine, domestic

• E

  efficacy, election, enforce, engage, enterprise, equality, evidence, exclusive, exemplify, expire, express

• F

  faction, federal, filibuster

• G

  gerrymandering, goal, government, grant, guilt

• H

  honor

• I

  ideals, identification, ideology, illegal, impact, impeach, implied, impound, inadmissible, inalienable, incumbent, inefficiency, influence, inherent, initiative, insight, interpretation, interstate

• J

  job, joint, judgment, judicial

• K

  keen

• L

  lame duck, law, leader, legal, legislator, legislature, lobby, lobbyist, local

• M

  machine, major, majority, management, maritime, meeting, member, minority

• N

  nation, national, nominate

• O

  official, oligarchy, outcome, override

• P

  parties, partisan, petition, philosophy, policy, political party, poll, popular, population, power, presidential, prevent, primary, procedure, process, proper, protection, public, public domain, punishment, purpose

• Q

  quality, quest

• R

  range, recall, referendum, representative, requirement, reserve, responsibility, restraint, review, reward, rights, rule safe seat

• S

  search, security, sedition, seizure, select, separation, share, signature, special interest, spending, split, state, status, strict, successful, suffrage, support, supreme, system

• T

  tax, technique, tension, term, threaten, ticket, two-thirds, tyranny

• U

  unconstitutional, unicameral, unity, unpopular

• V

  various, veto, violation, vital, vote

• W

  ward, wealth, wide, worthy

• X

• Y

• Z

  zeal

• A

  AMENDMENT

• B

  Bill of Rights

• C

  CONCEIVE, Congress

• E

  Electoral College, ENUMERATE, ESTABLISH, Executive Branch

• F

  FEDERALISM, First Amendment, Founding Fathers

• L

  LEGISLATIVE

• O

  ORDAIN

• P

  PERFECT, PERPETUATE, POSTERITY

• R

  RATIFICATION, REPUBLIC

• S

  SECURE, SIMULTANEOUS, Speaker of the House

• T

  TRANQUILITY

• U

  UNIQUENESS

• W

  Whip