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

3. The study of the earth’s surface and its characteristics

4. What is physical geography?

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

6. What is human geography?

7. The movement of plants, animals, and people from one place to another

8. What is migration?

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

10. What is spatial or cultural diffusion?

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

12. What was the Battle of Lexington?

13. The date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

14. What was July 4, 1776?

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

16. What was the Battle of Yorktown?

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

18. What was “No taxation without representation?”

19. The three branches of the federal government

20. What are legislative, executive, and judicial?

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

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

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

24. What is a republic?

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

26. What is federalism?

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

28. What are the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment?

29. No unreasonable searches and seizures

30. What is the freedom guaranteed in the 4th Amendment?

31. The Amendment guaranteeing a citizen a fair jury trial?

32. What is the Sixth Amendment?

33. Daily Double

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

35. What is Due process?

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

37. What was 1861?

38. The year the Civil War ended when the South surrendered to the North

39. What was 1865?

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

41. What was 1787?

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

43. What was 1215?

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

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

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

47. Who were the Mongols?

48. The push factor that causeda large migration of Irish to come to the United States in the 1840’s

49. What was the Irish Potato Famine?

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