Geographic
The Incas built a system of roads and bridges covering this many miles.
What is 25,000 miles?
This sport is known as 'America's Pastime'.
What is Baseball?
The period of economic downturn between 1929 and 1939.
What is The Great Depression?
The Mayans used this system of government.
What is a Theocracy?
Many indigenous people died when Europeans came to the Americas because they brought this with them.
What are diseases?
Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, and Henry Hudson were all explorers who searched for this.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This LA neighborhood is known for making movies.
What is Hollywood?
This system was developed by the Incas, and was used as a form of community service and tax.
What is the Mit'a System?
This is the belief that a nation's wealth is based on the amount of gold and silver they have.
What is Mercantilsim?
Along with rulers, these people held high power in Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
What are priests?
The Indian Removal Act led to the displacement of Native Americans and caused this event.
What was the Trail of Tears?
This form of storytelling kept ancestral lineages and moral lessons alive.
What is a griot?
This series of U.S. federal programs aimed to stabilize the economy after The Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
These were countries that depeneded on one crop and had little control over their economy.
What are Banana Republics?
The Spanish took advantage the Mit'a system in order to force indigenous people to do this.
What is Mining Silver?
After the Great Migration, these 4 other groups mainly migrated to the United States.
Who were Mexicans, Cubans, Jamaicans, and Puerto Ricans?
This the belief that happiness comes from buying more things.
What is consumerism?
The majority of this railroad was built mostly by Chinese immigrants.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These are people of European-Indigenous ancestry.
Who are Mestizos?
This was the belief that the United States had a duty from God to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Aztecs and Incas used these two different devices to help irrigate their crops by redirecting water, either from the rain or from water around their island.
What are Chinampas and Waru Waru?
This massive trend gave people a new way to exercise and travel.
What is bicycling?
This exchange brought horses, cows, and pigs to the Americas.
What was The Columbian Exchange?
The Mexican constitution was adopted in this year.
What is 1917?
This movement ended segregation and discrimination in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?