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What is the United States’ largest city?
What is the United States capital?
Los Angeles
Washington D.C.
Whom are called the first Americans?
The American Indians (Native Americans)
What was the first permanent European settlement, and which country established it?
St. Augustine, established by Spain
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What were the main reasons for colonists to come to America?
Religious freedom
Economic opportunities
What was the largest industry in the United States before the 20th century?
Agriculture.
The agricultural heart of the United States is?
Midwest
America is rich in mineral resources, which are:
Coal, iron, copper, silver, and gold.
In the late 19th century, this échame the leading economic activity in the United States:
Manufacturing
With what economy they replaced the industrial economy?
The development of electronics and telecommunications equipment
How many colonies grew in Jamestown and Plymouth?
13
What is the main form of transportation in the United States?
Auto-mobiles
What is the most used means of transportation in the United States for business and leisure travel?
The airplane
Who invented the telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
What has replaced the radio as the main form of home entertainment?
The television
What is the other name that the US has because it is a nation of immigrants?
The Melting Pot
What is the spoken language in the US and what is the language that a minority group speaks?
English
Spanish
What is the religion that the half of the American follow?
Protestant
How many years has the United States been a missionary field ?
50 years
What place does the United States occupies in the list of most populous country in the world?
The third place
What were some industrial centers in the United States during the Age of Industry?
Which inventors helped the establishment of the Age of Industry?
Thomas Edison, Alexander Bell, and Henry Ford
Where are most of the United States petroleum reserves?
Where are most of the United States coal?
Alaska and Texas
Kentucky, West Virgina, and Pennsylvania
What gave end to the American War for Independence?
The Treaty of Paris
Why did most of rural population went to the city during the Age of Industry?
This change happened because of the enormous technological advancement of the age. As the new advacements were greatly concentrating in the city; this, combined with the new tecnology result in less manpower needed, town people moved to the city for further opportunities in different fields.