Territories controlled by people from a foreign land.
What are colonies?
100
Corn Belt
What is the region in the midwest that specializes in growing corn?
100
Name the 5 cities that make up the Megalopolis of the Northeast.
What are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Baltimore?
100
______ creates bacteria that uses up the oxygen in the water ,that marine life need to live, causing a "dead zone."
What is algae?
100
A huge powerful country.
What is a superpower?
200
United States declared their independence from the British in____.
What is 1776?
200
A large farm that produces one major crop to export.
What is a plantation?
200
The Northeast makes up ____ of a country's population.
What is 1/5?
200
Name 4 natural hazards that affect the United States every year.
What are hurricanes, floods, tornadoes & earthquakes?
200
Name the 2 states that joined the United States in 1959.
What are Alaska & Hawaii?
300
Civil War
What is the war that was fought in the United States between the north and south from 1861-1865?
300
Megalopolis
What is a group of cities in Northeastern US that has grown into one large built- up area.
300
The region in the United States that has many immigrants from the Caribbean, Mexico & Latin America.
What is the South?
300
Many opponents of gentrification argue that_______.
What is an increase in property value and property taxes?
300
The South is the region that makes up more than ____ % of the country's population.
What is 30?
400
The United States and the Soviet Union both built up their militaries and developed nuclear weapons during the _____.
What is the Cold War?
400
gentrification
What is the process of buying run down homes in a bad area and restoring them?
400
The region that is known for mining of gold & silver as well as for having many software companies.
What is the west?
400
For the past 50 years a majority of the immigrants to the United States come from ____ and ____.
What is Latin America & Asia?
400
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
500
1869
When was the construction of the railroad in the United States completed?
500
Trade deficit
What is the term that means the value of the exports are less than the value of imports?
500
The _____ makes up 25% of the United State's population.
What is the West?
500
Opponents to NAFTA believe______.
What is the idea that free trade allows American companies to move factories to countries with lower wages and business costs, causing unemployment in the United States?