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The Constitution

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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?

The movement of plants, animals, and people from one

place to another

What is migration?

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 4th

Amendment?

The Amendment guaranteeing a citizen

a fair jury trial?

What is the

Sixth Amendment?

The protection

of the 5th Amendment that guarantees the

government must follow certain rules in the prosecution of an accused person

What is

Due process?

The year the Civil Warbegan when seven Southern

states seceded from the Union over the election of

Lincoln

What was 1861?

The year the Civil War ended when the South

surrendered 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?

What were the four sites and the rivers of the first river valley civilizations?

What are

Egypt-Nile

Tigris/Euphrates-Mesopotamia

Indus-India

Yangtze(Yellow)-China

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

world

Who were the

Mongols?

The push factor that causeda large migration of Irish to come to the United States in

the 1840’s

What wasthe 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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Barbara Caffee, Social Studies Co-coordinator for CFBISDand the 8th Grade American History teachers of CFBISD

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