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Geographic Features
Immigration
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Final Jeopardy
100
The continental U.S. has this type of climate.
What is temperate.
100
This was the easiest way for settlers to travel.
What are rivers.
100
This doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
What is the Lousiana Purchase.
100
Nafta has made an agreement with these countries.
What are America, Canada, and Mexico.
200
These are areas that have experienced a steady shift in population from the countryside to cities and they are geographically close together.
What are metropolitan areas.
200
The highest elevations in the U.S. are located here.
What are the Rocky Mountains.
200
Polish and italian immigrants came to the U.S. during this time period.
What is the early 1900s.
200
USAID provides this
What is food aid.
300
The southern colonies made money from plantations by growing this.
What is a cash crop.
300
This region was the last that was settled by U.S. citizens.
What is the West.
300
Many immigrants came to the U.S. because of individual rights and freedoms that were guaranteed by
What is the Constitution.
300
This natural resource has allowed the U.S. to experience economic growth.
What are crops (soybeans and corn)
300
this idea impacted the lives of the Native Americans because it pushed them off of their lands.
What is Manifest Destiny.
400
Agricultural goods in the United States are sent to other nations around the world using this.
What is export
400
Immigrants contributed to American society in the early 1900's by
What are working in factories, building railroads, and opening businesses.
400
this was one of the causes of the Civil War in the U.S.
What is the South wanting new slave states and the North did not.
500
The decisions to know what to buy or sell are made by individuals and buisnesses in the U.S. through this.
What is a market economy.
500
this has caused the population in the U.S. to increase in the last 10 years.
What is immigration.
500
the Native American cultures lives were disrupted when the Europeans arrived and introduced this
What are unfamiliar diseases.