U.S. Geography
This is how Native Americans reached the Americas.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
First permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
These are the people who elect their leaders in a democracy.
Who are citizens?
A Free Market/Free Enterprise economy is known as...
What's the most common Amendment refereed back to?
x2 What is at least one of the rights that come with it?
What is the first Amendment?
x2 Religion, Speech, Assembly, and Petition.
Two largest rivers in the United States.
What is the:
1. Missouri River
2. Mississippi River
This European empire colonized and ruled the Thirteen American Colonies.
What is England/Britain/British Empire?
A President can serve this long in one term:
What is four years?
Mixed Market Economy where the government controls some of the economy but not all is called...
Socialism
How many Amendments are there?
What is 27 Amendments?
These are the large mountains in the western half of the U.S. that go up into Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Great Depression crippled the world's economy in 1929, notably in the United States where 25% of American workers were out of work. This economic plan created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt combated the Great Depression in the U.S. by creating jobs and stimulating the economy.
What is the New Deal?
Current constitution of the U.S., created our modern government system with power shared between the federal and state governments, created the presidency and the Supreme Court.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
A Command Economy features an economy run by the government with total control over the economy and people.
What is Communism?
What year was the constitution ratified?
What was the year of 1788?
This has caused the Appalachian Mountains to become smaller than what they were thousands of years ago
What is weathering/erosion?
This was the ideological, political and economic rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR that lasted from 1947-1991.
What is the Cold War?
First constitution of the U.S., created a weak and ineffective central government, couldn't acquire tax revenue, no president or Supreme Court. All power was held by the States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is the economic system of the United States which allows little to no government interference (very hands off).
What is Free Market/Free Enterprise/Capitalism?
What Amendment is "Suit Against States"?
What is the 11th Amendment?
The slow but steady movement of these caused the rivers, canyons and valleys to form tens of thousands of years ago.
What are glaciers?
This was the belief that it was the United States of America's God-given right to expand westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These are the three branches of the U.S. federal (national) government.
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
During the Colonial Period of European colonization, this was the economic system between European nations and their oversea colonies.
What is mercantilism?
What is the 21st Amendment for?
What is Repeal of Prohibition?