Geography
The name for the 5 largest fresh water bodies of water in the United States
What is The Great Lakes?
To build settlements and develop trade in controlled lands
Name of the native group in Mexico who lived on the modern Yucatan Peninsula
Who are the Maya?
A person who takes up permanent residence in another country.
What is an immigrant?
A political system in which elections include candidates from more than one party.
What is a multi-party system?
A system of several mountain ranges that often run parallel to one another. Examples include the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains
What is Cordillera?
The nation which settled the Canadian province of Quebec
Who are the French?
The Catholic priest who led the first Mexican revolt in 1810
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
Established a French system of law and allowed the Catholic population to practice their religion freely in Canada
What is the Quebec Act?
The name of the one party ruling Mexico for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000
What is the International Revolutionary Party (PRI)?
The practice of growing just enough food to survive
What is Subsistence Farming?
The document, created by the United States government, to organize the government and states its powers
What is the Constitution?
The process in which large estates would be broken up and the land to be given to the poor
What is Land Reform?
Word that is now used to refer to native tribes
What is Indigenous?
This group settled in modern Mexico City, conquered by Hernando Cortes and the Spanish Conquistadors.
Who are the Aztec?
Flat area of land which makes up most of the center of North America
What are the Great Plains?
The process a person must go through in order to become a citizen in another country
What is naturalization?
The second general to lead a rebellion against Iturbide in Mexico
Who is Santa Anna?
The man who rode through the night to warn colonists of the British arrival
Who is Paul Revere?
This government style was created after the end of the Mexican Revolution
What is a republic?
Names of all five bodies of water mentioned above
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior (HOMES)?
The first ten rights given to the United States citizens under their new government. Name one!
What is the Constitution? Answers may vary
The four groups that make up the Mexican Class System prior to the Revolution
The document that created the United States
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Emiliano Zapata issued the Plan of Ayala to combat this person, in charge of the Mexican government at the time.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?