Geography
Another name for lines of longitude
What are meridians?
War between French and British that caused blockades that hurt American trade. Native Americans sided with the British.
What is the war of 1812?
A system for producing and distributing goods and services to fulfill people's wants
What is an economy?
A group of 28 countries that has agreed to protect each other in case of attack; founded in 1949
What is NATO?
Freedom of religion, controlling the US from afar, high taxation, lack of representation in Britain
What are the reasons for the American Revolution?
The tropic of cancer
What is 23.5 degrees North?
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
Who is Robert E Lee?
the country's central banking system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and interest rates
What is the Federal Reserve System?
A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society
What is the constitution?
Supreme Court case that decided US Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves could not be taken away without due process
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford?
A set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on Earth's surface with a portable electronic device
a notion held by 19th-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
established to ensure fair competition
What is the fair trade commission?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
A prolonged war between the communist armies of North Vietnam and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam
What is the Vietnam War?
conical, cylindrical, azimuthal
What are types of map projections?
1954 case that overturned Separate but Equal standard of discrimination in education
What is Brown v Board of Education?
a tax levied by the US IRS on the annual earnings of individuals, corporations, trusts and other legal entities
What are Federal Taxes?
A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president
What is a parliamentary system?
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
What is the Truman Doctrine?
a process in which a section of the Earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range
What is orogeny?
a law making body made of two houses
What is bicameral legislature?
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
Control public schools, local elections, control trade, provide laws for safety
What is state powers?
fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
What is the red scare?