America's Geographic Setting
The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with it.
Geography
A person who settles in a colony is called a what?
Loyalists supported this king.
King George III (The Third)
This "Cradle of Civilization" located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is where the first writing system, cuneiform, was developed.
Mesopotamia
What are the three branches of government?
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
These lines can pinpoint any location on Earth.
Latitude and Longitude
The first three English settlements in America were Roanoke, Plymouth, and this place.
Jamestown
Patriots dressed up as Native Americans and pushed boxes of this into Boston Harbor in protest of taxes.
Tea
Built as grand tombs for Pharaohs, these massive stone structures are most famously found on the Giza Plateau in Egypt.
The Pyramids
The Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) has how many justices?
9
Soil, water, trees, and minerals (copper).
The voyage of ships carrying enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to the West Indies and the American continents, was called what?
The Middle Passage
I was written in 1776.
The Declaration of Independence
This ancient Greek city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy and was home to famous philosophers like Socrates and Plato.
Athens
What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called?
The Bill of Rights
People that moved from place to place were called what?
Nomadic
Puritans came to America to practice this freely.
Religion
I helped the American colonists win the American Revolution over the British. (2)
The French and the Spanish
This 4,000-mile-long trade network connected China to the Roman Empire, allowing for the exchange of goods, religion, and technology.
The Silk Road
This system was placed into the Constitution in order to have a strong, lasting government where the power was equal.
Checks and Balances
Location, Place, Movement, Region, and Human-Environment Interaction
What industry was very important to the southern colonies in the 1700s?
Farming
This event in 1783 ended the American Revolution in which the British formally announced the American colonies had won the war.
The Treaty of Paris
This "lost" city of the Inca Empire is perched high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and remained hidden from Spanish conquistadors for centuries.
Machu Picchu
The first amendment to the Constitution says that American citizens have the freedom of assembly, religion, press, and what else?
Speech