2015 Final Study Guide
Topic
Page #
Description
Apartheid
456-457
When did it begin and
end?
456-457
made it illegal for different races and ethnic groups to mix, thus
limiting the rights of blacks
Began in 1948
Ended in 1991
Africa
Who was South Africa’s
first black President
Slave/Triangle Trade
457
Nelson Mandela
443
The continent that was
responsible for the Africa
Scramble
Timeline
During the age of Exploration, Europeans purchased or captured
Africans, put them on to ships and brought them to the Americas
as slave labor. These slaves worked on cotton, sugar, tobacco
and other farms. The products of these farms were sent back to
Europe to make goods, which were sold to Africa in exchange
for more slaves, which went to the farms…
Europe
drought
What is the biggest cause
of Somalia’s famine?
Africa’s largest country
(as of 2012)
Africa’s most populated
country
Timeline
410
436
Sudan
Nigeria
North America
US Constitution
What does it do?
1st Amendment
Constitution Identifies the rights and responsibilities of the people
101
Constitution 1. freedom of speech
101
2. freedom of press
3. freedom of religion
4. right to petition
5. right of assembly
13th Amendment
Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as
101
punishment for a crime.
14th Amendment
Constitution addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws,
101
and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves
following the American Civil War.
15th, 19th, 25th
Amendments
Constitution 15th - prohibits the federal and state governments from denying
101
a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."
19th - prohibits any United States citizen from being denied
the right to vote on the basis of sex.
25th- deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes
procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice
President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.
3 Branches of
Government
Notes
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Who is in charge?
President
Congress
Supreme Court
What do they do?
Enforce laws
Make laws
Make decisions
about the laws
Current US leaders
Internet
President: Barack Obama
VP: Joe Biden
Speaker of the House: John Boehner
Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell
US government
limitations on religious
issues (what it cannot do)
523
Cannot say which religion people should follow and tax payer
money should not be used to support the goals of specific
religions
US economy in the
1900’s
Indigenous group of
Canada
Canada 2 types of
political divisions
First European group to
arrive in Canada
Canada’s most populated
region
Mayans
521
Became one of the leading economics in the world
491
Inuit
486
Provinces and territories
491
Vikings
Chart
542
Core region
Time period? A.D. 250 to 900
Location? Yucatan Peninsula
What did they invent to track time?
calendar
Aztecs
543
Time period? A.D. 1200 to 1519
Location? Central Mexico
Hernan Cortez
543
Where is he from? Spain
Why did the Aztec’s fear him?
They thought he was a God named Quetzlcoatl
What country colonized
Mexico?
543
Spain
Vocabulary
Dictatorship
Constitutional Monarchy
Voc
VOC
Traditional Economy
Market Economy
32
32
Command Economy
Environment
Refugee
32
VOC
VOC
Federal Republic
VOC
Drought
Representative
Democracy
VOC
VOC
government under the control of one all-powerful leader
Government in which a king or queen is the official head of
state, but elected officials run the government
People meet their needs on the basis of their customs
Individuals determine for themselves what to produce (supply),
and how much to charge ( price)
Government makes all the decisions
Natural surroundings
Person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or
disaster
Form of government in which the national and state
governments share powers
Long period of extreme dryness and water shortages
Government where the people are represented by elected
leaders
Middle East
Followers of Islam are
called…
A Jewish place of
worship
A Christian place of
worship
A Muslim place of
worship
The Jewish Holly Book
The Christian Holy Book
Foldable
Muslims
Foldable
Synagogue
Foldable
Churches
Foldable
Mosques
Foldable
Foldable
Torah
Bible
The Muslim Holy Book
Holy City to all 3
religions
5 Pillars of Islam
Foldable
Foldable
Warm-up,
Notes
Quran
Jerusalem
1.Declaration of faith
2.Obligatory prayer
3.Compulsory giving
4.Fasting in the month of Ramadan
5.Pilgrimage to Mecca
The most important
exported resource
Notes
Geography
Contiguous
Equator
Prime Meridian
Hemispheres
Understand how to use
Latitude and Longitude
Know the 7 Continents
Locate them on the map
Know the 4 oceans
Locate them on the map
Locate
Vocab
Areas that are joined together inside a common boundary
Ex. U.S. and Canada
an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from
both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern
hemispheres
the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes
through Greenwich, England.
One –half of the globe; the Equator divides the earth into
Northern and Southern Hemispheres; the Prime Meridian
divides it into Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Latitude – imaginary lines running north and south
Longitude- imaginary lines running east and west
North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Antarctica
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian
USA, Canada Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, China,
Russia, India, Australia, Continents and Oceans