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Vocabulary
Section 1: Chapter Atlas
Section 2: History of the US
Section 3: The US Today
Big Ideas
100
A crop grown for money.
What is a cash crop?
100
The climate throughout the US is considered ______?
What is temperate or moderate?
100
The idea that the US was destined by God to go from "Sea to shining sea".
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
An ________ is a good shipped out of the country while an ______ is a good shipped into the country.
What is an export and import?
100
In the 1960s African Americans struggled for equal rights. This was called the __________.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
200
An economy where individuals and businesses make the majority of buying and selling decisions.
What is a market economy?
200
What is the most common natural disaster in the US?
What is flooding?
200
Native Americans were greatly affected by European ______ that spread throughout North America during the early days of our history.
What are diseases?
200
What does NAFTA stand for?
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
200
NAFTA is a trade agreement between which countries?
What are Canada, the US and Mexico?
300
The process of making decisions through discussion.
What is diplomacy?
300
The growth of towns and cities is often related to how close and area is to __________(2 words).
What are natural resources?
300
Why did England want to establish colonies in North America?
What is they wanted to gain wealth.
300
_________ is a pattern of activities, language, and habits common to a group of people.
What is culture?
300
Which half of the US is more densely populated?
What is the easter half?
400
Large farms used for growing cash crops.
What is a plantation?
400
The process of moving from one place to another.
What is migration?
400
During the 1860s the North and South disagreed about whether _______ was OK or not.
What is slavery?
400
The _______ has made the US culture more accessible to the rest of the world.
What is the Internet.
400
Name one of the 2 countries where most US immigrants came from before the Civil War.
What is Ireland or Germany?
500
During the US colonial period, a(n) ________ was someone who had a religion that was different from that of the colony.
What is a dissenter?
500
The growth and expansion of the US has had a negative impact on our environment causing _______.
What is pollution?
500
During the _______________ our economy and country suffered greatly.
What is the Great Depression?
500
Why might an immigrant want to become a US citizen?
What are better opportunities, security, and a better way of life.
500
What was one of the ways that immigrants contributed to American society in the early 1900s?
What is worked in factories/built railroads/ or opened businesses?