Geography
Comprised of grasslands, prairies, mountains, hills, and valleys
Great Plains
Incandescent lamp
Thomas Edison
movement from one place to another
migration
no private business, government sets pricing of items
communist economy
Everyone must follow the rulers, including authority figures
Limited government
Ocean to the East of the Appalachian Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg
the process of making products or goods from raw materials by the use of manual labor or machinery
Manufacture
Private ownership with government involvement for safety and health
Mixed Economy
Citizens elect representative to be their voice in government
Representative Democracy
Ocean to the west of the Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Alkaline storage battery
Thomas Edison
A group that shares common culture traits, such as language
Ethnicity
Government makes all decisions on what to produce and how much to charge
Command Economy
ruler inherits the role
Monarchy
The Texas river that separates the Unites States and Mexico
The Rio Grande
telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
People who leave their homeland to live in another place
Immigrants
small scale, producing enough to feed and trade
the ruler is from one single party, citizens do not vote, citizens have no say in government decisions
Mexico and Canada
Graphophone
Alexander Graham Bell
In the United States, we live in an ethnically and culturally diverse society. This is often called a
Multicultural Society
Supply and demand, competition, and little government interference
Free Market Economy
Votes for leaders, does not have to chose one party to lead, people have a voice
Democracy