Global Geography
U.S. Geography
U.S. 1 Review
Reconstruction
Vocabulary
100
What continent is the United States in?
North America
100
What is the name of the very big river that runs down the middle of the United States?
Mississippi River
100
What is the name of the war that was fought between the North and South over slavery?
The U.S. Civil War
100
What area of the country was mainly destroyed because of the Civil War?
The South
100
What term means an agreement?
A treaty
200
What is the largest continent?
Asia
200
What war did the 13 colonists fight in to gain independence from England?
The American Revolution
200
What city was a successful industrial city during the 1800s? (Hint: It is in Massachusetts)
Lowell, MA
200
What is the amendment that ended slavery?
The 13th Amendment
200
What term means to take land, sometimes by force?
Annex
300
This flag is from one of the seven continents. What is it?
South America
300
The area highlighted in white doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803. What is the name of this land acquisition?
The Louisiana Purchase
300
What is the name of the machine that took seeds out of cotton?
The Cotton Gin
300
What amendment gives "equal protection" under the Constitution? (Hint: It's the same one that defines citizenship.)
The 14th Amendment
300
Define Amendment.
A change or addition to a document.
400
What continent did most of the slaves who worked on the plantations in the South come from?
Africa
400
In what part of the United States did Black Codes and Jim Crow laws happen?
The South
400
What is the name of the machine that made textiles?
The Loom
400
What acts were passed to stop racial segregation and discrimination in the South?
The Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875
400
What term does the image above show?
Segregation
500
What 4 countries from Europe mainly colonized North and South America? (Hint: Think languages!)
France, Spain, Portugal, and England
500
Name a state that would have had Black Codes or Jim Crow laws.
Any state in the South
500
What are the names of the two sides that fought in the U.S. Civil War?
The Union and Confederacy (North and South)
500
What court case decided that "separate but equal" is allowed?
Plessy v. Ferguson
500
What term does the image above show?
Intergration