Show:
On the Map
Vocabulary
Breaking up with Britain
American History
Economics/Foreign Relations
100
Mountain range located in the east, running from Alabama and Georgia to Maine
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
A product made in another region or country and brought in to sell.
What is an import?
100
Colonists believed these were too high, and protests over these eventually lead to declaring independence.
What are taxes?
100
Where Native Americans settled depended on this.
What is natural resources?
100
If the supply is low, this is usually high.
What is demand?
200
These are the four most important directions.
What are the cardinal directions?
200
“Things” grown to be sold for a profit. Examples include tobacco and cotton.
What is a cash crop?
200
This major event brought the United States out of the Great Depression.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The type of economy the United States has.
What is a market economy?
300
These mountains are found in California
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
300
Moving from one area to another.
What is migration?
300
During this, colonists dressed up as Indians and threw a beverage into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
An area of shacks that people lived in during the Great Depression.
What is Hooverville?
300
Farm products are our most important ______, a good that is shipped to different parts around the world.
What is an export?
400
These mountains run from New Mexico into Alaska.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
400
The belief that early Americans had the God-given right to expand their country across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The war against Britain is known as this.
What is the Revolutionary War?
400
During this war, the North and the South fought. The North wanted freedom for slaves and the South promoted slavery.
What is the Civil War?
400
This is an area where particular types of businesses are found.
What is an economic region?
500
These two oceans are located on the coasts of the United States.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
500
A movement that promoted equality for African Americans in the 1960s.
What is the civil rights movement?
500
Britain's government was lead by a king. This is the title used to describe that type of government.
What is a monarchy?
500
Japan bombed this Naval base, bringing the United States in to World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
The act of talking through problems. This is usually done with foreign nations, but doesn't always work.
What is diplomacy?