U.S. Government
This document is the foundation of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This was the war fought between the North and South in the United States from 1861–1865.
What is the Civil War?
This imaginary line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is the basic economic problem of unlimited wants and limited resources
What is scarcity?
This word means the rules or laws that govern a country or organization.
What is government?
This branch of government is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
In this order the President Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states still in rebellion "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Emancipation Proclamation
This process describes people moving from rural areas to cities in search of jobs and opportunities.
What is urbanization?
This economic system is based on supply and demand with little government control
What is capitalism (free market economy)
This term describes the process where countries become more connected through trade, technology, communication, and cultural exchange.
What is globalization?
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This was the first 13 colonies’ war for independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and valleys
What is a physical map?
What is equilibrium?
This term describes the expansion of voting rights to include groups that were previously excluded, such as women in 1920.
What is suffrage?
This principle divides government power among three branches to prevent abuse of power.
What is separation of powers?
This 1930s economic collapse led to massive unemployment, bank failures, and poverty, and triggered sweeping government reforms under the New Dea
What is the Great Depression?
This is the movement of people from one country to another to live permanently.
What is immigration?
This is a tax placed on goods imported from other countries.
What is a tariff?
This term describes a system where power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This case ruled that "separate but equal" racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty…”
(This speech was delivered during the Civil War and is considered one of the most famous in U.S. history)
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This geographic trend explains why many of the world’s largest cities are located near coastlines and rivers instead of inland deserts or mountains.
What is access to resources and transportation (or locational advantage)?
This happens when prices rise over time and the purchasing power of money decreases.
What is inflation?
This concept explains how prices are determined based on how much of a product is available and how much people want it.
What is supply and demand?