Government and Citizenship in Latin America

Vocabulary:

• British Parliamentary System

• Legislative

• Chamber of Deputies

• military

• democracies

• PAN: National Action Party

• Executive

• PRI: Institutional Revolutionary Party

• Judicial

• Supreme Court

• landowners

Understand the shift from dictatorial governments to democracies in South America and the positive effects of mandatory education, using word match,notes chart, and a written speech describing the shift from dictatorship to democracies.

Vocabulary:

• Bi­cameral

• republic

• literate

• Suffrage

• mandatory

• Uni­cameral

• People’s National Conference

Compare the different kinds of governments found in the Caribbean, using notes chart, and a written speech comparing governments of the region.

Vocabulary:

• Bicameral

• Fidel Castro

• Commonwealth

• Illiteracy

• Communist

• Parliament

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Parliamentary Democracy

• Dictator

• Republic