Study sets matching "social studies voc"
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geography
scale
compass rose
longitude
the study of people, places and environments on the earth's su…
a tool used to show the distance between locations on a map
a tool that indicates the cardinal directions on a map or globe
imaginary lines on the earth's surface that measure distances,…
geography
the study of people, places and environments on the earth's su…
scale
a tool used to show the distance between locations on a map
regions
movement
human-environment interaction
absolute location
A geographic area that has similar physical or human character…
how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another
How people use, adapt to, or change their surroundings and how…
A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate syste…
regions
A geographic area that has similar physical or human character…
movement
how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another
Historian
Technology
Government
Social structure
A person who studies artifacts, people and event from the past
Use of scientific knowledge to do the things better and more q…
The way a country,city,or state is run or organized
The way people in a society are organized
Historian
A person who studies artifacts, people and event from the past
Technology
Use of scientific knowledge to do the things better and more q…
Use
Compare
Analyze
Summarize
To take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishi…
To estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity…
To examine methodically and in detail the constitution or stru…
To give a brief statement of the main points.
Use
To take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishi…
Compare
To estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity…
1. sagas
2. expedition
3. Renaissance
4. merchant
legends and stories about heroic deeds told by the Vikings
a journey made for a particular purpose
a period of cultural and artistic growth that spread throughou…
a buyer and seller of goods for profit
1. sagas
legends and stories about heroic deeds told by the Vikings
2. expedition
a journey made for a particular purpose
Civil Rights
Politics
Equal Rights
No Taxation Without Representation
A federal law that made it illegal to have segregation in publ…
The process by which we select our governmental leaders and wh…
a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would provide eq…
reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed…
Civil Rights
A federal law that made it illegal to have segregation in publ…
Politics
The process by which we select our governmental leaders and wh…
political party
electoral college
Democratic-Republican party
Federalist party
The aim of a _______________is to elect officials who will try…
When the system was first created, the members of the ________…
Led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the _______________…
The upper class and the elitists were strong supporters of the…
political party
The aim of a _______________is to elect officials who will try…
electoral college
When the system was first created, the members of the ________…
protest
monopoly
boycott
slogan
to go against; to express a strong disagreement
a company or group that has control over something;
a ban that forbids groups to buy, use or sell goods
a motto or catch-phrase
protest
to go against; to express a strong disagreement
monopoly
a company or group that has control over something;
republic
civil war
veto
spectator
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by…
A war between people of the same country.
(n.) the power to forbid or prevent; (v.) to prohibit, reject
a person who watches something, such as a sporting event
republic
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by…
civil war
A war between people of the same country.
acumen
abdicate
adulation
aloof
Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment
to give up a position, right, or power
Excessive praise or admiration
(adj.) withdrawn, standing apart from others (usually as a mat…
acumen
Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment
abdicate
to give up a position, right, or power
Fertile
Migration
Latitude and Longitude
BCE
Good soil for farming; rich with nutrients
A movement of people or animals from one region to another. Hu…
Longitude lines are lines that go vertically on maps. Latitude…
Before Common Era (also BC) Before year 1 on a timeline... Dates…
Fertile
Good soil for farming; rich with nutrients
Migration
A movement of people or animals from one region to another. Hu…
Rio Bravo (Rio Grande)
Penisula
Baja California
Gulf of Mexico
One of Mexico's few major rivers that forms part of the border…
A piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
A peninsula in western Mexico
A large gulf off the southeastern coast of North America
Rio Bravo (Rio Grande)
One of Mexico's few major rivers that forms part of the border…
Penisula
A piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
Environment
Civilization
Society
Interaction
the collection of surrounding things, conditions or influences
human society, where culture, science, industry, and governmen…
an organized group of people associated together for religious…
the direct effect that one has on another
Environment
the collection of surrounding things, conditions or influences
Civilization
human society, where culture, science, industry, and governmen…
map
globe
prime meridian
equator
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface…
a sphere that represents Earth's entire surface
divides the earth between the eastern and western hemispheres…
an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from…
map
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface…
globe
a sphere that represents Earth's entire surface
Abraham
Moses
Exodus
Ten Commandments
God promised to make this man's decedents into a great nation
A Hebrew leader who lead his people out of Egypt.
A journey
A code of moral laws
Abraham
God promised to make this man's decedents into a great nation
Moses
A Hebrew leader who lead his people out of Egypt.
map
compass rose
cardinal directions
intermediate directions
a diagram on a piece of paper that represents a smaller portio…
a part of a map that shows directions using symbols
one of the main directions on a map; north, south, east, and w…
directions which include northeast, northwest, southeast, and…
map
a diagram on a piece of paper that represents a smaller portio…
compass rose
a part of a map that shows directions using symbols
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
Jane Adams
(1847-1931) a US inventor who made over 1300 electrical invent…
(1847-1922) a scientist and inventor who is best known for inv…
(1835-1919) a US businessman and philanthropist, who started a…
founded the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chica…
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931) a US inventor who made over 1300 electrical invent…
Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922) a scientist and inventor who is best known for inv…
Vigilante
Transcontinental
Subsidy
Long Drive
People who take the law into their own hands
Extending across a continent
A grant of money from the government to a person or company fo…
The herding of cattle for 1,000 miles or more to meet the rail…
Vigilante
People who take the law into their own hands
Transcontinental
Extending across a continent
social classes
language
natural resources
culture
a ranking of people into higher or lower positions of respect
our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine t…
raw materials supplied by nature
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
social classes
a ranking of people into higher or lower positions of respect
language
our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine t…
legislature
Meusebach-Comanche Treaty
expand
boundary
a group of elected people who make new laws
settled land disputes between new immigrants and the Comanche
to spread out
a line that separates one place from another
legislature
a group of elected people who make new laws
Meusebach-Comanche Treaty
settled land disputes between new immigrants and the Comanche
classify
compare
conclusion
describe
arrange by assigning things into groups or categories based on…
to examine(2 or more objects, ideas,people,etc.)in order to no…
a reasoned deduction or inference
to tell or depict in written or spoken words
classify
arrange by assigning things into groups or categories based on…
compare
to examine(2 or more objects, ideas,people,etc.)in order to no…