2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Map Skills Civil War LandGovernmentPlaces
An imaginary line that is halfway between the N. and S. Poles
What is the equator?
The relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance
What is a scale?
A map that shows the kind of things that are made or grown in an area
What is a product map?
A map that shows landforms
What is a physical map?
Imaginary lines on a map or globe that measure the distance E or W of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
President of the U. S. during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The secret route that slaves used to escape to freedom in the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
A slave who escaped and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, returning to the South 19 times
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Large areas of flat or nearly flat land
What are plains?
The low, rounded mountains found in the eastern United States
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The height of land above seal level
What is elevation?
A low, bowl-shaped area of land that is almost completely surrounded by land
What is a basin?
A method of mining where huge power shovels are used to dig out ore
What is open-pit mining?
A written plan of government
What is a constitution?
The lawmaking branch of government
What is Congress or the Legislative Branch?
A government that is run by the people it governs
What is a democracy?
The branch of government headed by the President; it sees that laws are carried out
What is the Executive Branch?
The rights of all people to be treated equally under the law
What is civil rights?
A large farm which used slaves as workers
What is a plantation?
A place ruled by another country
What is a colony?
A word used to describe the edge of a settlement
What is a frontier?
The place in Pennsylvania where Washington’s troops spent a long harsh winter
What is Valley Forge?
A place in New York Harbor where immigrants had to be approved before entering the U. S.
What is Ellis Island?