What is the exact location of a place on the Earth's surface
100
What event finally pushed the U.S. into World War II?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor
100
What difficult dilemma did the Founding Fathers face when creating the U.S. Constitution?
What is how could they strenghten the central government while still protecthing the individual rights people had fought so bravely to win from the British?
100
What are first hand accounts of events created by people who lived through them called?
What is primary sources
200
What is the purpose of the European Union?
What is to create a single economic market in Europe by getting rid of tariffs and other barriers to trade by creating a common currency known as the Euro
200
Name two advantages the U.S. had over the nations of Europe at the end of World War II
What is the war was not fought on American soil and the nation's resources and infrastructure remained in tact
200
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
What is the cetnral government did not have the authority to hold together the new nation
200
What is an author's personal opinion or feelings that may lead them to support one side of an issue
What is bias
300
List three push factors that led people to emigrate from Europe to the United States
What is a population boom that led to a shortage of jobs, political instability, lack of religious freedom, desire to avoid forced military service
300
What was the goal of the policy known as containment?
What is the U.S. would keep communism limited to areas where it already existed, but not allow it to spread
300
What are the five basic principles that served as the foundation of the U.S. Constitution?
What is limited government, popular sovereignty, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances
300
Distorted information that is spread to convince someone to support a cause or movement of some kind
What is propaganda
400
Define immigration
What is when an individual moves into a new homeland
400
How did the Marshall Plan fit the overall goal of containment?
What is the U.S. hoped that by giving countries in Western Europe money, they would not turn to communism as a way to solve their postwar problems.
400
Why did the Founding Fathers make amending the Constitution a difficult process?
What is they thought they would sacrifice stability if they made it too easy to change the Constitution
400
"Since everyone is doing it, it is beneficial". This statement is what type of logical fallacy?
What is bandwagon
500
The phenomenon of the world becoming more connected because of technology
What is globalization
500
What was the doctrine of mass retaliation?
What is the U.S. focused on building a nuclear arsenal with such destructive capability that it would act as a deterrent to Soviet attack
500
What is precedent?
What is decisions about the language of the Constitution means
500
What are the characteristics of a credible source?
What is free of bias, information is based on facts, author provides credentials