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Vocab Quiz 3 8th Grade 2023

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A person sent or authorized to represent others such as an elected official.

a)

Delegate

b)

Emolument

c)

Senator

d)

Ordinance

2.

The act of conducting negotiation between two or more nations or states.

a)

Diplomacy

b)

Warfare

c)

Brinksmanship

d)

Delegation

3.

A plan of action adopted by one nation in regards to its diplomatic dealings with other countries.

a)

Foreign Policy

b)

Domestic Policy

c)

Domestic Tranquility

d)

Confederation

4.

A document that established the first government of the United States after the states declared their independence.

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Constitution

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Northwest Ordinance

5.

A group of states or nations where the states retain most of their independence and give only a few powers to the central authority.

a)

Confederation

b)

Monarchy

c)

Federalism

d)

Oligarchy

6.

Everlasting, permanent, endless

a)

Perpetual

b)

Emolument

c)

Dependant

d)

Diplomacy

7.

The exchange of goods and services on a large scale.

a)

Commerce

b)

Diplomacy

c)

Confederation

d)

Economics

8.

To have examined or recorded an area and features of a land to construct plans or a map.

a)

Survey

b)

Ordinance

c)

Delegate

d)

Emolument

9.

Legislation, law or authoritative order.

a)

Ordinance

b)

Township

c)

Diplomacy

d)

Perpetuate

10.

A political division of a county which has some self-governing powers.

a)

Township

b)

Ordinance

c)

Survey

d)

Articles of Confederation

11.

Lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River that some states had claimed before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.

a)

Western Land Claims

b)

Surveyed

c)

Ordinance

d)

Articles of Confederation

12.

An act under the Articles of Confederation that set up a standardized system for the sale of lands in the Northwest Territory.

a)

Land Ordinance of 1785

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Adams - Onis Treaty

d)

Treaty of Cession

13.

An act of the Confederation Congress that created a system for admitting new states in the Western Territory (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin).

a)

Northwest Ordinance

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Western Land Claims

d)

Diplomacy

14.

a payment, fee, or profit from employment or office.

a)

Emolument

b)

Confederation

c)

Perpetual

d)

Commerce

15.

Evidence

a)

Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true.

b)

Specific ways in which historians critically read a document that includes sourcing, contextualizing, closely reading, and corroborating.

c)

An attempt to identify the origin of a particular historical account / artifact by who, why, where and when it was created.

d)

A geographical area that shares at least one common trait.

16.

Life

a)

The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

b)

A possession such as land and objects, considered by philosophers to be a natural right.

c)

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.

d)

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.

17.

Resource

a)

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.

b)

A particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.

c)

Material evidence from the past.

d)

Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true or valid.

18.

Corroborating

a)

The use of additional sources to determine the extent to which they support each other.

b)

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.

c)

Material evidence from the past.

d)

The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

19.

Economic

a)

Having to do with the use of resources that have value to individuals and societies, focusing on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods.

b)

A geographic area that shares at least one common feature.

c)

Rules and regulations made by the government.

d)

An unwritten form of self-government that developed in the late 1500's to govern the Five Indigenous Nations.

20.

Limited Government

a)

The principle where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.

b)

The first attempt by English colonists to establish a temporary, legally-binding form of self government.

c)

An agreement entered into by the English King and rebel barons, protecting the barons from certain actions by the King.

d)

Having to do with the natural features of an area and how humans interact with those features.

21.

Liberty

a)

Freedom, the ability to choose without outside interference, considered to be a natural right.

b)

Political idea that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights.

c)

The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

d)

Rules and regulations made by government.

22.

Rules and regulations made by government.

a)

Law

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Resources

23.

The principle where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.

a)

Limited Government

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Sociocultural

24.

An unwritten government developed by Native Americans in the 1500's.

a)

Iroquois Confederacy

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Corroborating

25.

The condition of being equal, or same in quality, measure, esteem, or value, especially before the law.

a)

Equality

b)

Rule of Law

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Perspective

26.

A first hand account of an event.

a)

Primary Source

b)

Secondary Source

c)

Propaganda

d)

Magna Carta

27.

The idea that people are endowed with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

a)

Natural Rights Philosophy

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Corroborating

d)

Contextualizing

28.

This English philosopher formed the basis for many American political ideas, including the rights of Life, Liberty, and property.

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Fredrick Nietzsche

d)

C. S. Lewis

29.

The right or duty of a people to overthrow a government that acts against their natural rights.

a)

Right of Revolution

b)

Law

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

State of Nature

30.

What continent is this?

a)

Africa

b)

South America

c)

Australia

d)

Eurasia

31.

Identify the continent that is green

a)

South America

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

Australia

32.
What continent is this?
a)
Asia
b)
North America
c)
Africa
33.
Which continent is located at letter "A"?
a)
Antarctica
b)
Africa
c)
Australia
d)
Asia
34.
Which continent is located at letter "D"?
a)
Asia
b)
Africa
c)
Europe
d)
Australia
35.

What city is located closest to 70'W and 40'N?

a)

Denver

b)

Niagra Fallas

c)

Boston

d)

Houston

36.

What ocean is to the west of North America?

a)

Atlantic

b)

Pacific

c)

Southern

d)

Indian

37.

What type of map is shown?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Climate Map

d)

Population Map

38.

Historian

a)

A social scientist who is trained to study and write about the past.

b)

An organizing framework for geographic inquiry.

c)

Method for investigating geographic problems and issues.

d)

The different sized "containers" or ways to group places together or organize investigations into human activities.

39.

Economist

a)

A social scientist trained to study the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

b)

A social scientist trained to study the cultural development of humans.

c)

A social scientist who is trained to study and write about the past.

d)

A social scientist who is trained to study human societies and how people organize into groups.

40.

This line of latitude circles the Earth at the halfway point and is 0 degrees latitude.

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

International Dateline

d)

Tropic of Capricorn

41.

What kind of map is this?

a)

Physical Map

b)

Political Map

c)

Thematic Map

d)

Special Purpose Map

42.

Place this timeline in chronological order, left to right.

a)

2672 BCE

b)

1016 BCE

c)

4 BCE

d)

4 CE

e)

742 CE

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)