US Geography
This mountain range is located primarily in the eastern United States, running from Maine to Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Who was the general of the Continental Army?
The president who was assassinated at the end of the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The branch that enforces laws and is responsible for government departments like State, Defense, Transportation and Energy
What is the Executive Branch?
Second most spoken language in the United States
What is Spanish?
A U.S. region known for its large areas of fertile farmland
What is the Midwest?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
The main cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
The branch of the government that makes laws, approves the federal budget and declares war.
What is the legislative branch?
The Southwest United States
What was the home of Native American tribes like the Navajo & the Pueblo?
The Mississippi River is commonly used as a dividing line between these two broad parts of the United States
What are people's unalienable rights?
Constitutional amendment that allowed all men, regardless of color and race, to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The 1920 amendment that gave women of all colors the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Printing too much money, or having too much money available in the economy
What are causes of inflation?
Utah, Texas, Oregon, New Mexico, North Dakota, Arkansas
What are states WEST of the Mississippi River?
Independence
What was the central cause of the American Revolution?
The common name used for Southern laws that required the segregation of black and white people
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The branch that decides on the constitutionality of laws and who are appointed FOR LIFE
What is the judicial branch?
This indigenous group had women who gathered wild rice in the Great Lakes.
Who are the Ojibwe?
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, New York
What are states EAST of the Mississippi River?
Where was the 'Shot Heard Round the World?'
This 1863 document declared enslaved people in the Confederacy to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This system keeps any one branch of government from becoming too powerful by giving each branch ways to limit the others.
What are checks and balances?
An economic downturn where millions of people lost their jobs, homes and savings
What is the Great Depression?