Economy & Society
People make goods and others buy them to meet their needs.
What is an economy?
Ruler is born into power.
What is an absolute monarchy?
Freedom Europeans wanted in North America.
What is Religious Freedom?
Groups countries formed in WWII.
What are alliances?
Region connecting North & South America.
What is Central America?
Group that makes laws and keeps order.
What is a government?
Leader takes power by force.
What is a dictatorship?
Unfair taxes without a voice.
What is taxation without representation?
Event teaching fairness and respect.
What is the Holocaust?
Shortcut for trade between oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
How traditions and beliefs are shared over time.
What is culture?
Citizens vote and choose leaders.
What is a democracy?
First 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Spanish explorers in the Americas.
Who are the Conquistadors?
Mountain range in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Three levels that work together: raw materials, goods, services.
What are economic activities?
Small group controls government.
What is an oligarchy?
System that limits power.
What is checks and balances?
War for Mexico’s freedom.
What is the Mexican War of Independence?
Farming in high places.
What is Terraced Farming?
Why government is important: structure, rights, solving problems.
What is a stable society?
Moving west for land and opportunity.
What is westward expansion? or What is Manifest Destiny?
Making goods faster with factories.
What is Industrialization?
This idea says people should be treated equally and have a say in their government, and it helped inspire revolutions.
What is equality and self-government?
Land shapes culture.
What is geography influencing culture?