Chapter 3
What are two things that have caused the mail to get so much faster?
What are planes, trucks, and trains?
Why were people drawn to the Midwest?
What is there was more land for claiming for their families?
Who is a person who buys goods and services?
What is a consumer?
What was found in 1848 that caused people to move west?
What is gold?
What is it called when most of the people live in the country?
What is the rural area?
What is the United States economy based on?
What is the free enterprise system?
What is the moving of goods, people, and animals from one place to another?
What is transportation?
What is to trade one kind of good or service for another?
What is to barter?
What is the money left over after all of the costs of a business are paid?
What is the profit?
What became the nation’s main economic activity during the 1700s?
What is farming and raising livestock?
What are three ways that communication has improved?
What are cell phones, internet, and email.
What is the development of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems?
What is technology?
What are two ways that people used to barter?
What are skills for skills, skills for goods, or goods for goods.
What 3 early technologies were used in the early Americas?
What are railroads, elevators, lights, and new drilling technologies?
What raw materials were rich in early America that led to industries being built?
What are coal and limestone?
What do we call it when a product is produced from goods and services from many countries? What is the way that people send and receive information?
What is Globalization? What is communication?
What is it called when most people live in the city? What are the resources of a country, state, or region and how the resources are managed?
What is urban? What is the economy?
What is the 1700s was North America’s greatest resource? What is the quantity of an item that consumers are willing to buy at different prices?
What is the land? What is the demand?
What is something that a person must have to live? What attracted the first Native Americans and European settlers to North America?
What is a need? What is the land and its resources?
What are the people that make products to sell? What is quantity of an item that sellers are willing to offer at different prices?
What are the producers? What is the supply?
What three ancient civilizations used money?
What are the Greek, Egyptians, and the Chinese?
Why was the land so important? When two regions depend upon one another is called what?
What is it was used for raising crops and livestock to feed their families? What are interdependent or interdepence?
What is something that a person would like to have but can live without? What is one thing a lot of people would barter for?
What is a want? What is shells, metal discs, or rocks?
What in the early United States did people trade for? What is it when you have to choose one product over another, and what is the product that you don’t choose called?
What is fur pelts? What is opportunity cost?
Why can’t one area produce all of the needs and wants of its people? What prevented a lot of people from selling their products in the past?
What is the varying climates of the U.S.? What is transportation and communication was poor?