US History
These New England Colonies were founded by groups of settlers who wanted to practice religion in their chosen way.
What are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire?
The Supreme Court case establishing the legal status of segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
a system in which the people consent to the structure and limits of a government as outlined in a constitution; developed through its rejection of a monarchy, rule by a king or queen.
What is a constitutional democracy?
a system in which the means of production and development are privately owned and traded - first described in 1775 by Adam Smith.
What is capitalism?
horizontal line running around the center of the globe representing 0 degrees latitude and dividing the globe into two hemispheres (Northern and Southern).
What is the Equator?
workers who signed a contract to work for a number of years to pay off a debt, often their passage to the colonies
What are indentured servants?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution, protecting many individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
a type of government based on public ownership of economic resources and property to ensure wealth equality. In theory the economic system is managed by the community.
What is socialism?
What is supply?
the usual or average weather conditions in an area over a long time period.
What is climate?
To spread the special freedom of democracy to the edge of the continent.
What is "manifest destiny?"
This can NOT be passed without the input of the president, the state legislatures, Congress, and state conventions.
What is an amendment?
a type of government based on common ownership of the means of production in a classless society, but a central, controlling government provides citizens with basic necessities.
What is communism?
The consumers' need for available goods and services in a capitalist econmy.
What is demand?
describes information about population
What is demographic?
issued in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, as a military order to free slaves in rebel states
They could not vote until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920.
Who are women?
document signed by King John of England in 1215 establishing that the king was subject to the same laws as citizens.
What is the Magna Carta?
when there is too much demand and not enough supply.
What is inflation?
The migration of people from one area to another in search of trade, food, adventure, and freedom, including to new areas of the world.
What is diaspora?
Lasting from 1947 to 1991, it was a long period of tension between Western democracies and the sphere of communist influence with the Soviet Union at its center.
What is the Cold War?
a body of people assigned to states based on population, who formally elect the US president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
The three branches of the US Government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
When there is too little demand and too much supply.
What is deflation?
The imaginary longitude line of 0 degrees that runs through Greenwich, England and divides the globe into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?