Social Studies STAAR Vocabulary

________ is a location's distance north or south of the equator.

• Longitude

• Latitude

_________ was the African American surveyor who helped carry out French Engineer Pierre L'Enfant's plan.

• Benjamin Banneker

• Kobe Bryant

• Aaron Burr

• Alexander Hamilton

________________ is also called United Kingdom.

• America

• Britain

• Egypt

The imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is called the ________.

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

The economic system where the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit is known as ________.

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Feudalism

The document that declared the American colonies' independence from Britain is called the ________.

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the ________.

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Federalist Papers

• Emancipation Proclamation

The movement to end slavery in the United States was known as the ________.

• Suffrage Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Abolitionist Movement

• Temperance Movement

The war between the Northern and Southern states in the United States from 1861 to 1865 is called the ________.

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• World War I

• War of 1812

The system of government where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units is called ________.

• Monarchy

• Federalism

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy