Civics Vocabulary (2019-2020) Civics/Citizenship/Governments (Ch. 1 & 5 ...

Civics Vocabulary (2019-2020)

Civics/Citizenship/Governments (Ch. 1 & 5) 1. Civics 2. Citizenship 3. E pluribus unum 4. Diverse/diversity 5. Service economy 6. Values 7. Popular sovereignty 8. Institutions 9. Naturalization 10. Alien 11. Immigrant 12. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 13. Oath of Allegiance 14. Denaturalization 15. Expatriation

16. Deport/deportation 17. Refugees 18. Government 19. Democracy 20. Direct democracy 21. Representative democracy 22. Republic 23. Monarchy 24. Authoritarian 25. Absolute monarchy 26. Dictatorship 27. Totalitarian 28. Responsibilities 29. Duty 31. Community 32. Volunteerism

Roots of American Democracy and North Carolina Government (Ch. 2 & 12)

1. Enlightenment

34. Plantation

2. Monarch

35. Triangular trade

3. Magna Carta

39. King George III

4. Rule of law

40. Mercantilism

5. Legislature

41. Navigation Acts

6. Parliament

42. Albany Plan of Union

7. Glorious Revolution

43. French and Indian War

8. English Bill of Rights

44. Proclamation of 1763

9. Precedent

45. Stamp Act

10. Common law

46. Quartering Act

11. John Locke

47. Boycott

12. Natural Rights

48. Stamp Act Congress

13. Social contract

49. Repeal

14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

50. Declaratory Act

15. Baron de Montesquieu

51. Townshend Acts

16. Separation of powers

52. Boston Massacre

17. Colony

53. The Tea Act

18. Jamestown, Va.

54. Boston Tea Party

19. Joint-stock company

55. Coercive Acts

20. Charter

56. Delegate

21. Virginia House of Burgesses 22. Plymouth, Ma.

57. First Continental Congress 58. Lexington & Concord

23. Mayflower Compact 25. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 26. Proprietary colony

59. Independence 60. Second Continental Congress 61. Thomas Paine

27. Royal colony

62. Thomas Jefferson

28. Puritans

63. Declaration of Independence

30. Pilgrims 32. Indentured servants

64. Mecklenburg Declaration 65. The Halifax Resolves

The U.S. Constitution/Federalism/N.C. Constitution (Ch. 3 &4)

1. A constitution

5. Confederation Congress

2. The Constitution (U.S.)

6. Ratified

3. Bicameral

7. Ordinance of 1785

4. The Articles of Confederation (AOC)

8. Northwest Ordinance

9. Shays's Rebellion 10. The Philadelphia Convention/Constitutional

Convention 11. The Virginia Plan 12. The New Jersey Plan 13. The Connecticut Plan/The Great

Compromise 14. The Three-Fifths Compromise 15. Electoral College 16. Federalists 17. Federalism 18. Anti-Federalists 19. Preamble 20. Articles 21. Legislative branch 22. Executive branch 23. Judicial branch 24. An amendment 25. Necessary and Proper Clause 26. Expressed powers 27. Reserved powers 28. Concurrent powers 29. The Supremacy Clause 30. Civil liberties 31. The Bill of Rights

32. Search warrant 33. Indictment 34. Grand jury 35. Double jeopardy 36. Due Process 37. Eminent Domain 38. Bail 39. Suffrage 40. Poll taxes 41. Civil rights 42. Discrimination 43. "Jim Crow" Laws 44. Segregation 45. Affirmative action 46. Racial profiling 47. Miranda v. Arizona 48. Gideon v. Wainwright 49. Dred Scott v Sanford 50. Tinker v Des Moines Iowa School District 51. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Kansas 52. Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1964 53. Voting Rights Act of 1965 54. Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972

Politics/Political Parties/Elections/Public Opinion (Ch. 9-11)

1. Political Party

30. propaganda

2. Two-party system

31. Political Action Committee (PAC)

3. Alexander Hamilton

32. soft money

4. Thomas Jefferson

33. incumbent

5. Third party

34. canvassing

10. Multiparty Systems

35. endorsements

11. One-Party System

36. Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)

12. Platform

37. hard money

13. Plank

38. Federal Election Commission (FEC)

15. National Convention

39. Buckley v. Valeo

16. Political machine

40. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act aka:

17. Direct primary

McCain Feingold Act

18. Closed primary 20. Open primary 21. National Voter Registration Act

41. McConnell v. Federal Election Commission 42. public opinion 43. public opinion poll

22. polling place 23. ballot

44. mass media 45. interest groups

24. absentee ballot

46. public agenda

25. exit poll

47. prior restraint

26. electorate

48. public interest group

27. Electoral College, elector

49. nonpartisan

28. winner-take-all system

50. lobbyist

29. recall

51. public policy

The Legislative Branch: U.S. Congress, N.C. General Assembly (Ch. 6 & 13, Sect. 1)

1. Bicameral

15. Ex post fact laws

2. U.S. Congress

16. Joint resolutions

3. The House of Representatives

17. Special-interest groups

4. Census

18. Filibuster

5. Gerrymander

19. Cloture

6. The Senate

20. Voice vote

7. Majority party

21. Standing vote

8. Minority party

22. Roll-call vote

9. Congressional Committees

23. Veto

10. Seniority

24. Pocket veto

11. Elastic clause

25. N.C. General Assembly

12. Impeach

26. Statutes

13. Writ of habeas corpus

27. Legislative oversight

14. Bills of attainder

The Executive Branch: U.S. President; N.C. Governor (Ch. 7 & Ch. 13, Sect. 2 & 14)

1. 270 electoral votes

27. Governor

2. President (POTUS) 3. 22nd Amendment

28. Commute 29. James B. Hunt

4. Vice President (VPOTUS) 5. 25th Amendment

30. Lieutenant Governor 31. Beverly Perdue

6. Article II

32. The Council of State

7. Executive order

33. Clerk of Superior Court

8. Appointments

34. The N.C. Supreme Court

9. Pardon

35. Bayard v. Singleton (1787)

10. Reprieve

36. State v. Mann (1830)

11. Amnesty

37. Leandro v. State of North Carolina

12. Foreign policy

38. County

13. National security

39. Ordinances

14. Foreign-Policy Bureaucracy

40. Municipalities

15. Treaties

41. Incorporated

16. Executive agreement

42. Charter

17. Ambassador

43. "home rule"

18. Trade sanctions

44. Annexation

19. Embargo

45. At-large elections

20. Executive Office

46. County Manager

21. Cabinet

47. Sheriff's Department

22. Federal bureaucracy

48. Department of Register of Deeds

23. Independent agency

49. Special District

24. Executive agencies

50. Expenditures

25. Government corporation

51. Revenues

26. War Powers Resolution

The Judicial Branch: Federal Judicial System, NC Judicial System (Ch. 8, 13 Sect. 3, 15 & 16)

1. Circuit

13. Remand

2. Jurisdiction

14. Reverse

3. Exclusive jurisdiction

15. Opinion

4. Concurrent jurisdiction

16. Precedent

5. District courts

17. Federal judges

6. Trial courts

18. Magistrates

7. Original jurisdiction

19. U.S. Attorneys

8. Appeals courts

20. US. Marshals

9. Appellate jurisdiction

21. The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

10. U.S. Courts of Appeals

22. N.C. Supreme Court

11. N.C. Court of Appeals

23. Justices

12. Uphold

24. Judicial review

25. Docket 26. Brief 27. Majority opinion 28. Concurring opinion 29. Dissenting opinion 30. Stare decisis 31. Criminal law 32. Civil lawsuits/cases 33. torts 34. Misdemeanors 35. Felony

Amendments 1-27 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution

Landmark Supreme Court Cases 1. Korematsu v. US 2. Roe v. Wade 3. US v. Eichman 4. Engle v. Vitale 5. Gideon v. Wainwright 6. Texas v. Johnson 7. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier 8. Schenck v. US 9. Gregg v. Georgia 10. Mapp v. Ohio 11. US v. Nixon 12. Furman v. Georgia 13. New York Times v. US 14. Brown v. Board of Education 15. Plessy v. Ferguson 16. Reed v. Reed 17. Marbury v. Madison 18. McCulluch v. Maryland 19. Gibbons v. Ogden 20. New Jersey v. TLO 21. Bakke v. Regents of the University of California 22. Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education 23. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US 1964 24. Bethel School District v. Fraiser

36. Plaintiff 37. Defendants 38. Settlement 39. Verdict 40. Prosecution 41. Juvenile delinquent 42. Mandatory sentencing 43. Penal code 44. Probation 45. Due Process

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