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This is the process of adding territory to a country.
What is annexation?
The internet, cellphones, and satellites are all forms of this.
What is telecommunication?
The U.S. provides this much of the world's coal.
What is one-fifth?
Canada is well known for its efforts to protect this.
What is the environment?
These were the first major inhabitants of North America.
What are American-Indians?
This man-made channel carries water over long distances.
What is an aqueduct?
The rise of this technology led to the growth of suburbs in the 20th century.
What are automobiles?
Completed in 1869, this connected the eastern U.S. to the Pacific coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Agriculture is the main economic resource of this Canadian region.
What are the Prairie Provinces?
Spain, France, and England all did this in the Americas.
What is colonization?
This is a tax on imported or exported goods.
What is a tariff?
This invention revolutionized communication.
What is the telegraph?
This mountain range runs from Canada to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Atlantic Provinces' main 2 sources of income.
What are fishing and forestry?
This system raises and lowers boats to different water levels along a canal.
What is a lock system?
This term means “per person,” often used when dividing a statistic by population.
What is per capita?
These helped cities grow by linking regions of the country together.
What are railroads?
The Eastern US megalopolis spans between these two cities.
What are Boston and Washington D.C.?
Around this percent of Canada’s population lives in cities.
What is 80%?
Most of Kansas is located in this US region?
What is the Great Plains?
NAFTA
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
This major change in manufacturing began in the 1700's and transformed economies worldwide.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This famous trading institution is known for commodities like grain.
What is the Chicago Board of Trade?
Canada became officially independent in this year.
What is 1931?
This U.S. city grew into a major hub because of its location at the intersection of waterways, railroads, and later air travel.
What is Chicago?