Physical Geography
This river is the fourth longest in the world.
What is the Mississippi River?
These cities became major seaports.
What is Boston and New York?
In July 1776 colonial representatives adopted this important document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the age that an American citizen can vote.
What is 18?
These four regions make up the US states>
What is NE, Midwest, West, and South?
These lakes make up the largest group of freshwater lakes.
What are the Great Lakes?
These were large farms that grew one plan crop.
What is a plantation?
To win their independence colonists fought the British in this war.
What was the Revolutionary War?
This is the term used to refr to someone who can speak two languages.
What is bilingual?
A string of large cities that has grown together.
What is a megalopolis?
The US has two main mountain ranges. One is located in the East and one in the West.
what are the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains?
This was land inhabited and controlled by people from another land.
What is a colony?
This very important document spells out the powers and functions of the branches of government.
What is the US Constitution?
Approximately 7 out of 10 Americans are are descended from this immigrants from this continent.
What is Europe?
Ten percent of the US population lives in this state.
What is California?
This term refers to a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
These were the first people to travel west.
What are pioneers?
In the preamble of the US Constitution a specific wording was used to express the longing for peace within the US. The words were ......
What is "domestic tranquility"?
When did Europeans first begin settling n the US?
What is the 1500's?
This region is the most densely populated is the US and this region is the largest.
What is the Northeast and the West?
This area of higher ground that divides the flow of rivers towards opposite ends of a place is called the...
What is the continental divide?
This was discovered in the 1840's and drew many people west.
What is gold?
In 1781 George Washington led American forces against the British in this battle in what state?
What is the Battle of Yorktown and Virginia?
In 1992 the US, Mexico, and Canada signed this agreement that made trade easier and cheaper between them.
What is NAFTA the National American Free Trade Agreement?
What three states in the west region are major producers of wheat?
What are Montana, Idaho, and Washington?