North American Culture
A term used to describe an American worldview that all people have, or should have the opportunity for upward mobility, freedom, and equality through hard work.
What is The American Dream
Canada’s foreign-born population
What is 22%
The name of the proposed Free Trade Agreement among 12 Pacific Rim economies
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The time period during which the US began to take control of world politics
What is the end of World War 1
The environmental issue involving the Colorado River
What is pollution and draining
A system in which people succeed based on their own skills and not in relation to caste, class, religion, race, ethnicity, or kinship networks
What is meritocracy
US foreign-born population
What is 13%
Three Latin American countries that are a part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
What is Peru, Mexico, and Chile
A global challenge for the US in East Asia
What is Rising economic influence of China OR China’s use of coral reefs to expand their territory OR North Koreas nuclear capabilities, etc
This type of economy utilizes a combination of public and private enterprises and economic freedom, with a level of government interference.
What is a mixed economy?
This term describes the value of differences in society
What is multiculturalism?
This region has been placed on the back burner since 9/11. Most of the focus is now on immigration.
What Latin America?
Main export partners for the US (name at least 3)
What is Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, UK, and the EU
The United States redirection of resources and priorities to the world’s most populous region is commonly referred to as
What is “Pivot” to Asia
The main drivers of U.S. Wealth (name 2)?
What are abundant natural resources, well-developed infrastructure, and a broadly mixed economy play this role in the U.S. economy.
This colloquial term describes the mixing of multiple cultures in the US
What is the “melting pot”
The period of time during which the majority of US immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe
What is between the Civil War and WWII?
Main export partners for Canada (name at least 3)
What is US, China, UK, Japan, Mexico
A popular slogan implying that some banks and institutions play such large roles in the economy that if they were to fail there would be serious economic repercussions.
What is “Too big to fail”
A term that describes a situation in which the middle class is thinning, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.
What is the two-tier labor market?
This is the view in which the United States should always seek to ensure that the needs of people in the US are addressed before those of citizens in other countries.
What is the 'America First' View?
The continent from which the largest share of Canadian immigrants are from
Asia (including the Middle East)
What does USMCA stand for?
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
The percentage of world GDP produced by the US
What is 15%
Canada has this type of democracy.
What is a parliamentary system?