The spread of ideas, technology, and culture over time and space
What is cultural diffusion?
100
Using indicators such as income, education, birth rate/death rate, $ spent on food, population density and so on to determine quality of life
What is standard of living?
100
An offical change to a law or document of government
What is an amendment?
100
An original document, artifact, picture, journal, cartoon from the period in which an event occurred or a record from a person who participated in the event
What is a primary source?
200
This is the year of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
What is 1787?
200
The movement of people from one area/country to another
What is migration?
200
Growing crops just to support a family and not have any extra (surplus) for sale
What is subsistence agriculture?
200
This document protects individual rights such as free speech, freedom of the press, and jury trials
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Slanted coverage or one-sided information about an event; prejudiced information
What is bias?
300
He was the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
300
This type of geographic features includes mountains, seas, rivers, and valleys
What are physical features?
300
Large-scale production of goods by large companies or corporations
What are commercial industries?
300
The leading cause of the Nullification Crisis and the Civil War
What is states' rights?
300
Where the visual representations of important information are labeled on a map, chart, or graph
What is the legend?
400
The colonial grievance that the king refused to allow representatives to make laws was addressed in this document
What is The Constitution (Congress has the ability to make laws without President's approval)
400
When people learn to use and live with their environment
What is adapting to the environment?
400
The introduction of new technology which often changes lifestyle and production.
What are technological innovations?
400
The idea that abuse of power is controlled by the three branches of government watching each other and having the power to approve or disapprove certain actions of the other branches
What is checks and balances?
400
Putting things in logical order; using chronological order to organize events based on dates
What is sequencing?
500
The Confederate attack on Ft. Sumter, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to the Union General Ulyssus S. Grant occurred between these years
What is 1861-1865?
500
Describing similarities in the places and ways people move into and stay in a given area
What are patterns of settlement?
500
Central government owns most of the means of production in a country and controls most economic decisions
What is a command economic system?
500
The idea that power is divided between the federal government and the state governments
What is federalism?
500
The perspective from which a person views historical or current issues and events