Geography
The largest body of water east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
Many of the first English colonists settled in this subregion
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights
Manufacturing, or making products to sell
What is industry
Large urban centers of culture, education, and business.
What are metropolitan areas
A group of huge lakes in the American Midwest and Central Canada
What are the Great Lakes
By the 1750s, this many English colonies existed in North America.
What are 13
Basic rights that belong to all citizens.
What are civil rights?
The invention that increased cotton farming profits.
What is the cotton gin?
New York City is made up of these urban areas
What are boroughs
The oldest and longest chain of mountains east of the Mississippi River
The government that controlled the New England colonies.
The religion with the largest number of followers in the U.S.
What is Christianity
Tourism is important because it brings this to economies.
What is revenue OR money/jobs
New Orleans culture reflects African, Caribbean, Spanish, and this influence.
What is French
An area where waterfalls flow from higher to lower ground
What is a fall line
Europeans were mainly attracted to the Americas because of this.
What are natural resources
The U.S. government built levees along the Mississippi River to do this.
What is prevent flooding
OR What is to control damage
Today, more Americans work in this industry than any other.
What is the service industry
The Trail of Tears is an example of many of these of Native Americans.
What are forced removals?
The Missouri and Ohio Rivers are these that feed into the Mississippi River
What are tributaries
Historians believe Native Americans came to North America by crossing this from Asia.
What is the Bering Land Bridge
The word meaning “living or occurring naturally in a place.”
What is indigenous OR native
Factories closing and jobs being lost gave the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England this nickname
What is the Rust Belt
During the Great Migration, thousands of these moved North.
What are African Americans