U.S. Regions
This region includes states like New York and Massachusetts.
What is the Northeast?
The capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The first permanent English settlement in America (1607).
What is Jamestown?
The ocean on the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called the ___.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are in this region.
What is the Southwest?
This state is known as the "Sunshine State."
What is Florida?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
The Constitution begins with these three words.
What are “We the People”?
California, Oregon, and Washington are part of this region.
What is the West?
Sacramento is the capital of this western state.
What is California?
He was the second President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
The largest mountain range in the western United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Federalist Papers were written to convince states to ratify this document.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This region is known for farming and includes Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa.
What is the Midwest?
This Great Lakes state is divided into an Upper and Lower Peninsula.
What is Michigan?
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The ocean on the west coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The first U.S. Constitution, replaced in 1789, was called ___.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama are part of this region.
What is the South?
The only U.S. state made up entirely of islands.
What is Hawaii?
The war fought between the United States and Britain from 1812–1815.
What is the War of 1812?
The river that runs along the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This compromise counted enslaved people as “three-fifths” of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?