Social Studies Review

Ancient Greece, Biographies, Geography

Greek Architecture

Architecture is the style of buildings.

Parthenon is Ancient Greek Building that many US buildings are modeled after

US Supreme Court Building, White House, Capitol

Greek Democracy

Greeks had Direct Democracy—every free MAN could vote directly for every law.

United States has Representative Democracy—we elect Senators and Representatives to vote for laws for us. Two senators from each state and representatives by population.

THREE BRANCHES

The three branches of government:

Executive—president—enforce laws

Legislature—Congress—make laws

Senate and House of Representatives

Judicial—Supreme Court—interprets laws

Biographies—Study of Our People in History

Paul Revere, Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony, Mary McCleod Bethune, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood

Marshall, LBJ, Cezar Chavez

Paul Revere

Along with William (Billy) Dawes, warned the people of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts that the British soldiers were coming.

Paul Revere (cont)

Paul Revere was a silversmith—he made beautiful silver objects

Paul Revere was a member of the Sons of Liberty—the group that threw tea into Boston Harbor

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was once a slave.

He escaped to New York wearing a sailor suit.

He was an abolitionist—wanted to free all slaves.

Frederick Douglass (cont)

The North Star was a newspaper he started to further his abolitionist cause. North Star was what slaves followed on Underground Railroad.

Mary McCleod Bethune

Educator—Started first school in US for young black women

Bethune-Cookman University—her school is now a university in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Mary McCleod Bethune (cont)

This is her first school in Florida.

Susan B. Anthony

Worked for Women’s Right to Vote

Also called Suffragehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99V6s25J94

Susan B. Anthony (cont)

Was an abolitionist like Frederick Douglass (they were friends).

Died before women got the right to vote in 1920. (19th Amendment)

Dollar was made with her picture.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Also called FDR.

Only president elected for FOUR terms.

Programs were called the NEW DEAL. (also called Alphabet Soup)

CCC—provided jobs--built parks

WPA—built

TVA—electricity in rural areas

FDR (cont)

President during Great Depression—stock market failed—banks failed

30% of US population out of work (unemployment)

President during World War II

Eleanor Roosevelt

Married to FDR

First lady—wife of president

First one to help American people

Helped poor, homeless,

Out of work

Thurgood Marshall

Lawyer who argued Brown versus Board of Education

First African American Supreme Court Justice—highest court in land

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Also called LBJ—became president when John F. Kennedy was shot

Was Senator and Vice President» Voting Rights Act of 1964—made poll taxes

illegal and made it illegal to discriminate during elections

» Civil Rights Act of 1965—Made discrimination against people of color in jobs, in recreation, etc. illegal.

LBJ (cont)

Diligence—faced with people who did not want African Americans to have voting rights and civil rights, he kept working until the laws were passed

Justice—he worked for justice for all people

Cesar Chavez

Wanted rights for migrant farm workers

Migrant means moving from place to place

Cesar Chavez (cont)

Started the UFW (United Farm Workers)

Boycotted grapes and lettuce—asked everyone to stop buying them

Marched in peaceful protest—followed Ghandi and MLK

Geography

LongitudeLatitudeHemisphere—earth divided in halfPrime Meridian—line of longitude that divides earth between eastern and western hemisphereEquator—line of latitude that divides earth between northern and southern hemisphere

Rivers and Mountain Ranges

Mississippi River

Hudson River

Ohio River

Rio Grande River

Rivers and Mountain Ranges (cont)

Appalachian Mountains

Rocky Mountains

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/usa-features-map-puzzle.htm

Economics

Supply and Demand

Trade and Barter

Opportunity Cost

ECONOMICS (CONT)

Opportunity cost—when you have to choose between two things you really want

Economics (cont)

Consumer—person who buys a product or service

Producer—person who makes or sells a good or service

Goods—things you buy (stuff)

Services—things people do

for you—barber, teacher

Economics (cont)

Scarcity—when there is not enough of something, makes the prices go up—like “Tickle Me Elmo.”

Assembly Line—when factories put products together one piece at a time; one person, one piece.

Economics (cont)

Natural resources—things that come from nature

Renewable—trees

Nonrenewable—oil

Capital resources—buildings, bridges

Human resources--PEOPLE