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The economic term for growing just enough food for the immediate family to eat

What is subsistence agriculture?

Total value of all the goods and services produced by nation for the year

What is the Gross Domestic Product?

Higher standards of living Advanced technology Low birth and mortality rate High GDP High literacy rate

What are characteristics of a developed nation?

The economic term illustrated when nations are dependant on others for essential goods and services (such as the dependence of others on the Middle East for oil)

What is global interdependence?

Document that begins with the words, “We hold these truths to be self evident… that all men are created equal.”

What is the Declaration of Independence?

Document added to the Constitution in 1791 to guarantee the individual rights of citizens of the United States

What is the Bill of Rights?

English document written to guarantee a king could not hold a person in jail without telling him of the charges

What was the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

The papers written to support the ratification of the Constitution because the Articles of Confederation were so weak that many did not feel the country could survive unless the new form of government was adopted.

What were the Federalist Papers?

The type of economic system illustrated by feudalism

What is a traditional economic system?

The command market system used during the Age of Exploration when European monarchs tried to acquire gold and control the trade and manufacturing of the colonial possessions they had acquired

What was mercantilism?

The three economic questions that every country must answer

What are 1.What should be produced? 2.How it is to be produced? 3.Who should get it?

Three characteristics of a free enterprise capitalist system

What are Private property Profit Competition?

The 1789 challenge to the idea of hereditary rule and social mobility; the ideas later swept across Europe

What was the French Revolution?

The Age that challenged traditional thinking, replacing it with controlled experiments and observation to explain the world and nature

What was the Scientific Revolution?

Led by England with the mass production of goods in factories

What was the Industrial Revolution?

The name for the change begun when man began to grow his own food as well as developing more refined stone implements for tools

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

The principle in the Constitution that divides the functions of the government into legislative, executive, and judicial AND the reason for its use

What is the separation of powers and to keep one branch from having more power than the other?

The French philosopher who influenced Madison and others at the Constitutional Convention to divide the power of the government in order to control it

Who was Montesquieu?

What is the term that explains that the people have the supreme power and give it to those who govern?

Popular Sovereignty

The Amendment that guarantees rights not specified in the Constitution are kept by the people and can not be denied to them by the government

What is the 9 th Amendment?

Two of the major reasons the North was able to win the Civil War

What are: 1.An industrial economy 2.Resources necessary to fight a war 3.A navy 4.Larger population

The military leadership of such people as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson

What was the one advantage the South had over the North in the Civil War?

The preview of the breakup of the Union, occurring when South Carolina threatened secession over the tariff on imports?

What was the Nullification Crisis of 1832?

The provisions of the three post Civil War Amendments to the Constitution, designed to deal with the abolition of slavery

What is the 13 th Amendment which abolished slavery, the 14 th which defined state and national citizenship, and the 15 th which gave ex-slaves the right to vote?

The Declaration of Independence

The English philosopher and title of the work that greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence

Who was John Locke who wrote Two Treatises on Civil Government?