Themes of geography
This theme tells you where it is.
What is Location?
This word means any information, object or statement used to prove a fact.
What is evidence?
This means the formal acceptance of a law, idea, document, or declaration. It must be agreed upon by a large group of people.
What is Ratification? or Ratify?
This war resulted in France giving up land East of the Mississippi River to Britain. It also added a lot of debt that Britian had to repay.
What is the French and Indian War?
This term means that government power should be divided into different branches (ex. Legislative, Judicial, Executive)
What is separation of powers?
This term means fair treatment in the judicial system (courts, trials, etc).
What is due process?
This theme tells what it is like when you get there.
What is Place?
This word means a work that interprets, analyzes, or summarizes information from first-hand sources.
What is secondary source?
This word means an original, first-hand account of an event created by someone who witnessed the event.
What is primary source?
These were the primary combatants during the French and Indian War.
What are England and France?
This compromise dealt with the issues of slavery and how representation would be calculated in the federal government?
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This type of factor that influenced the revolution is defined as: Related to people's beliefs, culture, and relationships in society.
What is Social Factor?
This theme tells you how people and ideas get around.
What is movement?
A system where the people of a country, community, or group rule themselves.
What is self-government?
An area on Earth defined by one or more shared physical or human characteristics.
What is a region?
Fill in the blank: "Taxation without ________________" was a major cause of the American Revolution.
What is Representation?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Proclamation came after the French and Indian War and told colonists they could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This theme describes what people do to the environment.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
These are the core principles and values that guide a free society; emphasizing self-government, individual liberty, and equal justice under the law.
What are Democratic Ideals?
A system where citizens elect fficials to make laws and vote on policies for them.
What is representatie government?
This term means a set of things that people believe they should be free to do without restrictions.
What is individual rights?
This branch of government serves as the "commander and chief" of the armed forces.
What is Executive Branch?
This person believed the British king and Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.
What is a Loyalist?
This theme tells you what locations have in common (climate, religion, language, etc.).
What is region?
These ten amendments were added to the constitution to protect basic individual liberties- such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. These also place strict limits on governmental powers.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is one of three regios that North Carolina is divided into and is where we can find the city of Raleigh.
What is the Piedmont Region?
This document explained why the American colonies were breaking away from England
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This document was created to form the first American government but had serious weaknesses such as: Congress couldn’t enforce its laws, collect taxes, or control trade between states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This person would have supported a strong national government to unite the states and been focused on growing the economy.
What is a Federalist?