Economics
This term describes the system of producing, distributing, and consuming goods.
What is an economy?
This system allows citizens to vote for representatives.
What is democracy?
This complaint united colonists against Britain.
What is taxation without representation?
These explorers sought wealth in the Americas.
Who were Conquistadors?
This region connects North and South America.
What is Central America?
These three levels include raw materials, manufacturing, and services working together.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary activities?
This system limits power by dividing it among branches.
What is checks and balances?
This document contains the first 10 amendments.
What is the Constitution?
This war required alliances to strengthen nations.
What is World War II?
This geographic feature creates ocean shortcuts.
What is the Panama Canal?
This role of government includes maintaining order and providing services.
What is governing/creating and enforcing laws?
This form of rule is typically inherited through family lines.
What is absolute monarchy?
This movement involved settlers seeking land and opportunity.
What is westward expansion?
This event teaches consequences of prejudice and hate.
What is the Holocaust?
This mountain range is in South America.
What is the Andes?
This explains why economies rely on interdependence between sectors.
What is economic interdependence?
This system is controlled by a small powerful group.
What is oligarchy?
This change led to factory jobs and mass production.
What is industrialization?
This independence movement freed Mexico from Spain.
What is the Mexican War of Independence?
This adaptation includes high-altitude farming.
What is terrace farming/high altitude crops?
This concept explains balancing growth with environmental protection.
What is sustainable trade?
These first 10 amendments protect freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This describes why people moved west for farming and mining.
What is opportunity for land/resources? What is Manifest Destiny?
This motivation drove European colonization.
What is desire for wealth/resources/religious freedom?
This explains why culture differs by geography.
What is geographic influence on culture?