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Geographic terms American Revolution The Constitution The Bill of Rights Key Dates Impact of Geography on History $200 $100 $400 $300 $100 $200 $300 $400 $100 $200 $300 $400 $100 $200 $300 $400 $100 $200 $400 $200 $300 $400 $300 $100 Credits

The study of the earth’s surface and its characteristics

What is physical geography?

The study of the distribution of people and how they interact with the environment

What is human geography?

Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Gilbralter; Dardanelles

What are examples of geographic choke points?

The spread of ideas and beliefs, products, and ways of doing things

What is spatial or cultural diffusion?

Battle known as the“Shot Heard Round the World” because it began the American Revolution

What was the Battle of Lexington?

The date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

What was July 4, 1776?

The battle fought in Virginia resulting in the British surrender and the independence of the American colonies

What was the Battle of Yorktown?

The argument the colonists used to resist the British policies, which had been changed to help pay for the French and Indian War

What was “No taxation without representation?”

The three branches of the federal government

What are legislative, executive, and judicial?

Veto, Senate approval of Presidential appointments, and declaring a law unconstitutional

What are examples of the checks and balances system in the Constitution?

The type of government patterned after the Romans in which the citizens elect representatives to carry out the powers of the government

What is a republic?

The principle that divides the powers and responsibilities of government between national and state

What is federalism?

Freedom of Expression-free speech, free press, freedom of religion, petition, and assembly

What are the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment?

No unreasonable searches and seizures

What is the freedom guaranteed in the 4 th Amendment?

The Amendment guaranteeing a citizen a fair jury trial in a criminal case?

What is the Sixth Amendment?

The protection of the 5 th Amendment that guarantees the government must follow certain rules in the prosecution of an accused person

What is Due process?

The year beginning the Civil War when seven Southern states seceded from the Union over the election of Lincoln

What was 1861?

The year the Civil War ended with the South surrendering to the North

What was 1865?

The date the Constitutional Convention met to draw up a new plan of government

What was 1787?

The date of the Magna Carta which began to limit the power of the English king?

What was 1215?

The four sites and the respective rivers of the first river valley civilizations

What are Egypt-Nile Tigris/Euphrates-Mesopotamia Indus-India Yangtze-China

The nomads on horseback who came from the grassy plains of central Europe to conquer the largest land empire in the history of the world

Who were the Mongols?

The push factor that caused a large migration of Irish to come to the United States in the 1840’s

What was the Irish Potato Famine?

The pull factor that caused the Pilgrims and Puritans to come to the New World?

What was the opportunity to worship as they please and escape persecution?

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