VOCABULARY
U.S. HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
THE UNITED STATES TODAY
POTPOURRI
100
What is the process of moving from one place to another?
What is Migration
100
In 1803, how did President Jefferson double the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
Where is the highest elevation in the continental United States? located?
What are the Rocky Mountains
100
What type of economy does the United States have today?
What is a market economy
100
What form of transportation did the Eastern Woodland Indians mostly use?
What is a canoe
200
What is the average temperature and precipitation over a long period of time in a region?
What is Climate.
200
Which U.S. document guarantees individual rights and freedoms?
What is the U.S. Constitution
200
What term do we use to describe an area made up of several cities?
What is a metropolitan area
200
What are products made in this country and shipped to another country called?
What is an export
200
When did many Italian and Polish immigrants come to the United States?
What is the early 1900s
300
People whose religious beliefs differed from the official religion in their country?
What is a dissenter
300
The right for westward expansion is known as?
What is Manifest Destiny
300
Which region in the United States were plantations the most common?
What is the Southern colonies
300
What are products made in another country and shipped to this country called?
What is an import
300
What is a crop grown for export known as?
What is a cash crop
400
What is the process of making decisions through discussion?
What is diplomacy
400
Which war in the Americas came before the American Revolutionary War?
What is The French and Indian War
400
Where is population density likely to be the highest?
What is in urban areas
400
What goal established equality for African Americans?
What is the Civil Rights Movement
400
Which country did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory from?
What is France
500
Term used when the U.S. "took control of" Texas in 1854?
What is annex
500
What was a major reason that the colonist began the American Revolution?
What are British high taxes
500
Where is cultural diversity most likely to be the highest?
What is along the U.S-Mexico border
500
Which three countries signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
What are Canada, Mexico, and the United States
500
What event happened as a result as the U.S. government forcing thousands of Cherokees from their home in Georgia to Oklahoma?
What is The Trail of Tears
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