Vocabulary
Means "connected to"
What is contiguous?
This extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian boarder. It was purchased in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This river divides the United States into two parts.
What is the Mississippi River?
A law that made public land in the western states free to farmers.
What is the Homestead Act?
An area where a severe drought dried the southern Great Plains so much that crops died. Strong winds carried dry soil away, covering areas in dust.
What is the Dust Bowl?
A region of parallel mountain chains.
What is a cordillera?
This river runs north to south and goes through New Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This range runs along the California-Nevada border
What is the Sierra Nevada range?
Silver and copper mines, lumber and fish canneries are examples of this.
What are primary industries?
These attracted many Americans to the western states.
What are land and resources?
People who are always on the move.
What is nomadic people?
What are the Great Plains?
The reason why the Great Salt Lake is salty
What is because it does not have an outlet?
This is what some called the purchase of Alaska.
What is "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox"?
A trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the USA that pledged to remove all barriers to trade among themselves.
What is the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
One means "towns" or "villages" in Spanish. The other means a church based community led by Catholic priests that were used to house Native people.
What is the different between Pueblos and Missions?
This river stretches from the Mississippi through western Montana.
This is another name for Mount McKinley
What is Denali?
This caused the war with Mexico (the United States won)
What is wanting California and other land that were part of Mexico?
City not by a seaport or on a navigable part of a river. Some examples are Denver, CO, Austin, TX, Las Vagas, and Phoenix, AZ.
What are interior cities?
Firms that rely on machines, advanced technology, and mass-production methods to farm large areas.
What are agribusinesses?
The Continental Divide (an imaginary line separating rivers flowing in opposite directions) is located here.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This state gets nearly a quarter of its electricity from wind power
What is South Dakota?
This group of people placed settlements along the Mississippi River. New Orleans, example.
Who are the French?
This problem has prompted scientists to develop ways to remove salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming.
What is limited water resources?