Chapter 7 Vocabulary US History
Across
- 7. law
- 8. special group of electors chosen to vote for president and vice president
- 12. a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
- 13. sharing power between the federal and state governments
- 14. a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases
- 15. branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law; headed by the president
Down
- 1. to fall in value
- 2. a system by which each branch of government limits power of other branches
- 3. lawmaking branch of government
- 4. having two separate lawmaking chambers
- 5. having the proper size in relation to other objects or items
- 6. the branch of government that includes the courts that settle disputes and questions of the law
- 9. a settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands
- 10. a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
- 11. the freeing of individual enslaved persons