Core Concepts
A large, mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
A decline in economic growth for six months or longer.
What is a recession?
The Haudenosaunee nation once stood where this modern state now resides.
What is New York?
Who is Isaac Newton?
The capital of Arkansas.
What is Little Rock?
What is competition?
The act of concentrating on a limited number of goods or activities.
What is specialization?
The People of the Flint.
Who are the Mohawk?
He said "I think therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
The capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
The advent of machine-powered manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
The money earned by selling goods and services.
What is revenue?
The Haudenosaunee word for chief.
What is sachem?
His satirical wit landed him in the Bastille.
Who is Voltaire?
This famous speech begins "Fourscore and seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The momo a company has after subtracting the costs of doing business.
What is profit?
An organized way for producers and consumers to trade goods and services.
What is a market?
The women in charge of the longhouses.
What are clan mothers?
This French thinker advocated for individual liberty, and greatly influenced the founding documents of America.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This American president only served for 33 days, and was killed by pneumonia; likely caused by inclement weather during his inauguration speech.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Seams in Earth's crust.
What are faults?
The general increase in price.
What is inflation?
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Name the six tribes of the Haudenosaunee Nation.
What are the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Mohawk, the Seneca, the Cayuga, and the Tuscarora?
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This French thinker advocated for the separation of powers and checks and balances.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
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He wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" to canonize his ideas about motion of the heavenly bodies.
Who is Isaac Newton?