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WorksheetsVocab Quiz 3 8th Grade 2023
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 25mins
A person sent or authorized to represent others such as an elected official.
Delegate
Emolument
Senator
Ordinance
The act of conducting negotiation between two or more nations or states.
Diplomacy
Warfare
Brinksmanship
Delegation
A plan of action adopted by one nation in regards to its diplomatic dealings with other countries.
Foreign Policy
Domestic Policy
Domestic Tranquility
Confederation
A document that established the first government of the United States after the states declared their independence.
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Magna Carta
Northwest Ordinance
A group of states or nations where the states retain most of their independence and give only a few powers to the central authority.
Confederation
Monarchy
Federalism
Oligarchy
Everlasting, permanent, endless
Perpetual
Emolument
Dependant
Diplomacy
The exchange of goods and services on a large scale.
Commerce
Diplomacy
Confederation
Economics
To have examined or recorded an area and features of a land to construct plans or a map.
Survey
Ordinance
Delegate
Emolument
Legislation, law or authoritative order.
Ordinance
Township
Diplomacy
Perpetuate
A political division of a county which has some self-governing powers.
Township
Ordinance
Survey
Articles of Confederation
Lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River that some states had claimed before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.
Western Land Claims
Surveyed
Ordinance
Articles of Confederation
An act under the Articles of Confederation that set up a standardized system for the sale of lands in the Northwest Territory.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Louisiana Purchase
Adams - Onis Treaty
Treaty of Cession
An act of the Confederation Congress that created a system for admitting new states in the Western Territory (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin).
Northwest Ordinance
Emancipation Proclamation
Western Land Claims
Diplomacy
a payment, fee, or profit from employment or office.
Emolument
Confederation
Perpetual
Commerce
Evidence
Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true.
Specific ways in which historians critically read a document that includes sourcing, contextualizing, closely reading, and corroborating.
An attempt to identify the origin of a particular historical account / artifact by who, why, where and when it was created.
A geographical area that shares at least one common trait.
Life
The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.
A possession such as land and objects, considered by philosophers to be a natural right.
An agreement between members of a society that individuals willing surrender some of their natural rights in exchange for protection by society in the form of laws.
A concept used in political philosophy to describe the conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence.
Resource
A source of supply, support, or aid that is necessary for human survival. A natural feature or phenomenon that enhances the quality of human life.
A particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.
Material evidence from the past.
Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true or valid.
Corroborating
The use of additional sources to determine the extent to which they support each other.
Thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.
Material evidence from the past.
The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.
Economic
Having to do with the use of resources that have value to individuals and societies, focusing on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods.
A geographic area that shares at least one common feature.
Rules and regulations made by the government.
An unwritten form of self-government that developed in the late 1500's to govern the Five Indigenous Nations.
Limited Government
The principle where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.
The first attempt by English colonists to establish a temporary, legally-binding form of self government.
An agreement entered into by the English King and rebel barons, protecting the barons from certain actions by the King.
Having to do with the natural features of an area and how humans interact with those features.
Liberty
Freedom, the ability to choose without outside interference, considered to be a natural right.
Political idea that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights.
The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.
Rules and regulations made by government.
Rules and regulations made by government.
Law
Magna Carta
Natural Rights
Resources
The principle where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.
Limited Government
English Bill of Rights
Natural Rights
Sociocultural
An unwritten government developed by Native Americans in the 1500's.
Iroquois Confederacy
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
Corroborating
The condition of being equal, or same in quality, measure, esteem, or value, especially before the law.
Equality
Rule of Law
Natural Rights
Perspective
A first hand account of an event.
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Propaganda
Magna Carta
The idea that people are endowed with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Natural Rights Philosophy
English Bill of Rights
Corroborating
Contextualizing
This English philosopher formed the basis for many American political ideas, including the rights of Life, Liberty, and property.
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Fredrick Nietzsche
C. S. Lewis
The right or duty of a people to overthrow a government that acts against their natural rights.
Right of Revolution
Law
Declaration of Independence
State of Nature
What continent is this?
Africa
South America
Australia
Eurasia
Identify the continent that is green
South America
Europe
Africa
Australia
What city is located closest to 70'W and 40'N?
Denver
Niagra Fallas
Boston
Houston
What ocean is to the west of North America?
Atlantic
Pacific
Southern
Indian
What type of map is shown?
Physical Map
Political Map
Climate Map
Population Map
Historian
A social scientist who is trained to study and write about the past.
An organizing framework for geographic inquiry.
Method for investigating geographic problems and issues.
The different sized "containers" or ways to group places together or organize investigations into human activities.
Economist
A social scientist trained to study the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
A social scientist trained to study the cultural development of humans.
A social scientist who is trained to study and write about the past.
A social scientist who is trained to study human societies and how people organize into groups.
This line of latitude circles the Earth at the halfway point and is 0 degrees latitude.
Equator
Prime Meridian
International Dateline
Tropic of Capricorn
What kind of map is this?
Physical Map
Political Map
Thematic Map
Special Purpose Map
Place this timeline in chronological order, left to right.
2672 BCE
1016 BCE
4 BCE
4 CE
742 CE
