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The secret network that helped slaves escape.

What is the Underground Railroad?

100
An ancient form of Egyptian writing that used pictures.
What are Hieroglyphics?
100
The body or institution that makes and administers society's laws.
What is government?
100
A round model of Earth's surface.
What is a globe?
100
The organized way in which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods and services.
What is economy?
200
The year The Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is 1776?
200
A government in which one person has absolute authority over a nation.
What is a Dictatorship?
200
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that state the freedoms and rights of individuals.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
An area of land having characteristics that make it different from another area of land.
What is a region?
200
An economic system based on private ownship of property.
What is capitalism?
300
This began when the stock market crashed in the 1930's.
What is the Great Depression?
300
Sources of energy found in the earth such as oil, gas, and coal.
What are fossil fuels?
300
The presidential power to refuse to sign into law a bill that has been approved by Congress; can be overridden by Congress.
What is a veto?
300
The movement of people from one location to another.
What is migration?
300
A market where stocks and bonds of corporations are bought and sold.
What is the stock market?
400
The Japanese city on which an atomic bomb was dropped.
What is Hiroshima?
400
The belief that all productive properties ahould be owned by the people as a whole.
What is Communism?
400
A formal agreement with another nation, which requires Senate approval.
What is a treaty?
400
The exact point on Earth where a place is found; can be expressed in degrees of latitude and longitude.
What is location?
400
The total amount of money owed by the federal government of the United States to its creditors.
What is national debt?
500
The year the Constitution was adopted.
What is 1787?
500
An international organization created in 1945 to promote peace throughout the world.
What is the United Nations?
500
A type of government in which a king or queen's word is law.
What is a monarchy?
500
The spread of cultural traits from one part of the world to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
The value in property after debt and other liabilities are paid.
What is equity?