Geography
Regions divide a place into smaller units.
How many regions make up the United States?
What are 5 regions?
England established colonies along the Atlantic Coast.
In 1607, name the first English colony (state) to be established.
What is Virginia?
Name this level of government:
I am responsible for the people in the town or city.
What is local government?
An economy is a system used to distribute resources to meet people's w_____ and n_____.
Complete the sentence.
What are wants and needs?
Most Americans are _____, or descendants of people who traveled to America to live here.
Complete the sentence.
What is immigrants?
Natural resources can be renewable or nonrenewable.
Are these renewable or nonrenewable:
Wheat and lumber
What is renewable?
In 1791, this was added to the United States Constitution. It guarantees U.S. citizens personal freedoms.
What is the name of this document?
What is the Bill of Rights?
True or False:
The first step in "How a Bill Becomes a Law" is members of the Senate or House of Representatives must propose the bill.
The first step is an idea for a bill is developed.
Congress proposing the bill is the second step of the process.
_____ limits the amount of goods and services that are available.
Complete the sentence.
What is scarcity?
True or False:
Native Americans were already living in [America] when Europeans arrived.
The United States can be divided into many regions made up of states with common features.
Name the regions of the United States.
What are the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the West.
In 1929, the United States stock market crashed.
What happened after the stock market crashed in the 1930s?
What is (any of the following):
*banks failed
*trade lessened
*less money was spent
There are 9 United States justices who serve the Supreme Court.
Who appoints them?
What is the president?
To get revenue the government needs to operate, it must c_____ t_____.
What is collect taxes?
People celebrate their past because...
Complete the sentence starter.
What is ...they want to keep their history alive and pass along their traditions, celebrations, and practices?
A region's climate depends on its geography.
Name two things that can affect a region's climate.
What are the equator, elevation, and/or being near large bodies of water?
The United States became involved in World War I after Germany bombed a civilian ship. The United States joined with its allies as the Allied Powers to defeat the Axis Powers.
Name 3 of those countries.
What are Great Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, and China (any three).
The legislative branch is also called Congress.
The legislative branch has 2 bodies: _____ and _____. Name these.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The United States Mint is part of the Treasury Department and has six locations throughout the U.S.
Of those six locations, where is the Mint's headquarters located?
What is Washington D.C.?
How do people celebrate in America?
Name two common practices.
What are watching parades, watching firework displays, listening to marching bands, playing patriotic music?
The sun shining on Earth as it turns gives us 24 time zones.
When it is 12:00pm (noon) in Florida, what time is it in California?
What is 9:00am in California?
Following World War II, America fought additional wars.
Name four additional wars that were fought.
What are:
K-Korea
A-Afghanistan
I-Iraq
V-Vietnam
In the Executive Branch of government, there is a leader for the federal, state, and local levels of government.
Provide the title of the leader who leads each level (federal, state, local).
What are:
Federal-President & Congress
State-Governor & General Assembly
Local-Mayor & City Council
State and local governments have the power to tax its citizens.
Name the 3 main types of taxes that the government collects.
What are income tax, sales tax, and property tax.
The Latin phrase E pluribus unum is on the Great Seal of the United States.
What does it mean?
What is "out of many, one"?