These two oceans on both sides of the United States have protected it from invasion: one to the east one to west
What are the Atlantic and Pacfic?
100
The capitol of the United States
What is Washington D.C.?
100
This mountain range in the east was the natural border of the American colonies BEFORE the Revolution
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
This 1896 war got the United States it's first overseas territories-- Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Phillippines and Guam.
What is Spanish-American War?
100
The southern U.S. climate Warm climate and long growing season made the South a good location for these large farms.
What are plantations?
200
This river runs from upstate New York to New York Harbor...it even passes Poughkeepsie!
What is the Hudson River?
200
The American Revolution started here with a Massacre and a Tea Party.
What is Boston, Masachussets?
200
This river was the natural border of the United States AFTER the Revolution?
What is the Mississippi River?
200
Also known as Russia, this large Asian nation was America's #1 rival during the the Cold War
What is the Soviet Union?
200
The northern U.S. waterways and coastlines made it a good location for ______________
What is industry?
300
This man-made waterway connected the Atlantic Ocean wit the Great lakes-- the boost in trade made New York the Empire State.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
It started out as a Dutch city of New Amsterdam and until the British took it over...now it's the Big Apple and the City That Never Sleeps
What is New York City?
300
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought this territory from France and more than doubled the size of the U.S.--and got control Mississippi River and New Orleans, too!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
This man-made waterway in Central America connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans-- and cut the trip from New York to California nearly in half.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
This river is the longest in the USA...at its mouth is the Delta and the port of New Orleans...."Les Bon Temps Rouillez!
What is the Mississippi River?
400
This city on the Mississippi is north of New Orleans...but it's " often called the Gateway to the West"
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
400
In 1941, Japan bombed this American naval base in Hawaii...the next day, the U.S. declared war!
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
This large agricultural area stretched across the South got it's nickname from it's #1 crop.
What is the Cotton Belt?
500
This river route follow the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Columbia until it reaches the Pacific Ocean...Lewis and Clark made the journey
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
This California city used to be run by the Spain... they first called it Yerba Buena?
What is San Francisco?
500
America first went to war with this nation to take Texas, and again to get what is now Arizona, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
What is Mexico?
500
This huge area of flat land in the middle of the U.S. grows so much wheat and corn that they call it the "Breadbasket of America".