Government
Geography
Trade
Big Business
100
Is voting a requirement or a responsibility?
Voting is a civic responsibility.
100
This giant mountain range stretches from Canada in the North to the United States in the South.
The Rocky Mountains
100
The United States limits the number of Mexican-made cars that can be brought into the country each year.
Embargo - Quota - Tariff
Quota
100
Why did Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain hire the sailor, Christopher Columbus?
They were hoping he could find a new trade route to Asia.
200
Who leads the Executive Branch of the U.S. government?
The President of the United States
200
These large bodies of water straddle the US-Canadian border.
The Great Lakes
200
Canada places a small tax on each bottle of maple syrup imported into the country.
Embargo - Quota - Tariff
Tariff
200
Samuel Slater came up with this factory system that employed entire families, including children.
Rhode Island System
300
The federal governments of Canada, Mexico and the USA are divided into 3 equal branches. What are they?
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
300
Which tribe would you expect to see in the hi-lited area -
Comanche or Iroquois or Maya
Maya
300
Because of an outbreak of brucellosis in Argentina, it is illegal to bring Argentine beef cattle into the U.S..
Embargo - Quota - Tariff
Embargo
300
The American System of Manufacturing in the 1800s and early 1900s used this group of newcomers to provide labor in American factories.
Immigrants
400
The Indian Removal Act forced thousands of Indians off their ancestral homes and allowed this group of people to take over those lands.
European Settlers
(white/American settlers of European ancestry)
400
The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan on artificial __________ connected to the mainland by a series of bridges and causeways.
islands
400
Explain how the Columbian Exchange affected cuisine and dietary habits in Europe and America.
The Columbian Exchange led to new ingredients being used in dishes on both sides of the Atlantic. For example, Italian food was transformed when tomatoes from America were introduced to Europe.
400
Why in the world would anyone want to dig a big ditch across Central America?
The Panama Canal made it much easier to trade goods between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans and between the Western & Eastern hemispheres, because goods no longer had to be shipped around the tip of South America.