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?
This became a major issue of contention (arguments) between the North and the South through the early to mid 1800s.
What is slavery?
These are the people who elect their leaders in a democracy.
Who are citizens?
A Free Market/Free Enterprise economy is known as...
This was the incorrect name given to Native Americans by Europeans.
What is Indian?
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?
During the American Civil War:
The North was called this...
The South was called this...
What is the Union/USA?
What is the Confederacy/CSA?
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
These were crops grown purely for profit, ex: cotton, corn, potatoes, tobacco, etc.
What are cash crops?
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?
This declaration freed all slaves in the rebel Confederate States, issued by President Lincoln in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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?
"Separate but Equal" was the explanation given to legitimize this racist division of people based on race in the U.S. South (former Confederacy).
What is Segregation?
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 (Soviet Union, aka Communist Russia) that lasted from 1947-1991.
(We won by the way. 'Merica!)
What is the Cold War?
These three Amendments (laws) abolished slavery, made people born in the U.S. as citizens and gave African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
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?
This was the terrorist group that carried out 9/11 and this was their leader.
Btw, we eliminated him in 2011. 'Merica!
What is al-Qaeda? Who is Osama bin Laden?
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 laws, put in place in post-Civil War American South, limited African-American rights, enforced segregation etc.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
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?
This was the radical Islamic government of Afghanistan who sheltered terrorist groups from the U.S., causing the American invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.
They also limit the rights of women in their country and are an unlimited religious government causing many to flee to other countries (including the U.S.)
What is the Taliban?