Geography
A drawing of the Earth's surface.
What is a map
Rules that people must follow?
The capital of the United States is located where?
What is Washington, D.C.
The amount of money a business receives is more than its expenses
What is profit?
Situated along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Nickname for the home of Mesopotamia.
What is The Fertile Crescent
Name the four directions on a compass
What is North, South, East and West.
What are Executive, Judicial and Legislative
The leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This occurs when consumers want more of a good or service than producers are willing to make available at a particular price
What is a shortage?
What river was essential to the development of ancient Egyptian civilization?
What is the Nile River.
On a map, what is the section called that depicts the symbols on the map?
What is a legend
Name of the document that explains the rules of the US government?
What is the Constitution
An actor, he assasinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Who are the people who decide how to combine resources to create new goods and services?
Who are entrepreneurs?
What economic expansion expanded during the Industrial Revolution?
What is Capitalism?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
What is the Equator
Who breaks a tie in the US Senate
Who is the Vice President
The (city) first United States capital
What is New York City?
An increase in the amount of money (or money supply)
What is inflation
What global conflict ended in 1918?
What is World War 1
Derived from Greek meaning “whole earth”, what is the name by which the supercontinent which incorporated almost all of the land masses on earth is known?
What is Pangea
What is it called when the president of the United States formally blocks a bill passed by Congress from becoming a law?
What is a veto
The place that General Lee surrendered to effectively end the Civil War.
Where is Appomatox Courthouse, Virginia
Father of modern economics, wrote the "Wealth of Nations"
Who is Adam Smith
What genocide targeted European Jews during World War II?
What is Holocaust?