🗺️ Geography & Early Civilizations
What type of climate is hot, humid, and full of rainfall and wildlife?
What is Tropical?
In what type of government do elected citizens run the country?
What is a Republic?
What agreement removed trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico?
What is NAFTA?
What amendment banned slavery in all of the U.S.? (#)
What is the 13th Amendment?
Believing in one god is called what?
What is Monotheism?
Building a dam to control flooding is an example of which theme of geography?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
What principle keeps one branch of the U.S. government from becoming too powerful?
What are Checks and Balances?
Who believed that government should protect the natural rights (life, liberty, and property) of it's citizens?
Who is John Locke?
The 14th Amendment gives what protection to citizens born in the US?
What is citizenship?
What form of writing was created in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians?
What is Cuneiform?
The movement of goods and ideas across the Silk Road reflects which geographic theme?
What is Movement?
What principle of government says that the people's government should not be all powerful?
What is Limited Government?
What document was the first to limit the English king's power?
What is the Magna Carta?
Which reformer worked to improve public schools through more days and trained teachers?
Who is Horace Mann?
What do we call the spreading of cultural ideas from one group to another?
What is Cultural Diffusion?
Why did early civilizations settle near rivers?
What is to access fresh water for farming and trade?
What is the main role of the Executive Branch? hint: to _______ the laws
What is to enforce laws?
What principle says government power comes from the people?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What economic term describes the value of final goods and services produced per year in a country? (hint: it's an acronym!)
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
What is the most important natural feature needed to start a civilization?
What is Water?
Athens and Rome are examples of what kind of ancient communities?
What are City-States?
What is a government called where one person has unlimited power?
What is an Autocracy?
What document, passed in 1688, protected the rights of British citizens and allowed free elections?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
**FINAL** What system divides power between the national and state governments?
(also one of our government principles we talk about- shared power of fed and state gov)
What is Federalism?
Which theme of geography groups places by similar features like language or climate?
What is Region?