U.S. History
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
The 3 branches of U.S. government
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
0 degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
Type of economic system based on a free market
What is capitalism?
This ancient civilization is known for its monumental burial practices
What is Ancient Egypt?
The act of several Southern states leaving the Union
What is the secession?
This document announced the separation of 13 colonies from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The 7 continents of the world
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
These 2 amounts determine the market price of a product
What are supply and demand?
The thought of this period, also known as the Age of Reason, inspired the American and French Revolutions of the late 1700's
What is the Enlightenment?
The idea that expanding Westward was good and inevitable, part of God's plan
What is Manifest Destiny?
The number of elected members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
The Equator divides the world into these halves
What are hemispheres?
A measure of economic growth that includes all production within boundaries
What is Gross Domestic Product or GDP?
During this period, serfs worked the lands owned by nobles, and knights pledged service to their lords under the feudal system
What is The Middle Ages (or Medieval Period)?
Colonists responded to tariffs imposed by Britain in this act of protest
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The system for electing U.S. presidents
What is the electoral college?
The Northernmost state of the United States
What is Alaska?
The central banking system in the U.S., established in 1913
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
"The Great War"
What is World War I?
The U.S. President who decided to drop the first atomic bombs
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This Supreme Court ruling overturned the legal status of racial segregation
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Western coast of Africa meets this ocean
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This business situation is illegal under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What is a monopoly?
"The War on Communism"
What is The Cold War?