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Economic Documents Economic
Terms Documents Systems
Eras of
Change
Principles American
Civil
of the
War
Constitution
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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
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What is the
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 13th Amendment
which abolished slavery, the
14th which defined state and
national citizenship, and the
15th 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?