History
What was the first region of the United States?
NorthEast
Which branch of government creates the laws?
Legislative
What does NAFTA stand for?
North America Free Trade Agreement
What mountain range runs along the East Coast of the U.S.?
Appalachians
What is the definition of "region"?
Places that have something in common.
What was the first country to establish territories in Canada?
France
What are the 3 levels of government?
National/Federal, State, Local
What vocabulary words means " the rapid growth of a city"?
Urbanization
What is a high mountain with a flat top called?
a Plateau
Which theme of geography describes what an area is like when you get there?
Theme of Place
What war gave ownership of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona to the United States?
The Mexican-American War
What vocabulary word means to divide the powers of government into levels?
Federalism
What vocabulary word means "farming just enough for you and your family"?
Subsistence Farming
Which of the Great Lakes is the largest?
Lake Superior
What vocabulary word describes "a person or country's way of life"?
Culture
From which country did the U.S. gain its freedom from?
Great Britain
What vocabulary word means " the government's response to a problem concerning another country"?
Foreign Policy
What do we call reasons that people need or want to leave their country?
Push Factors
What do we call a piece of land surrounded almost entirely by water?
A peninsula
This describes the world before it broke apart into continents:
Pangea
In what year was the Constitution written?
1789
Name one way that Canada and the United States government are similar.
They have limited governments; both are democracies.
Why was NAFTA so important to the economy of North America?
It removed the taxes on exports, creating "free trade".
Give an example of an archipelago.
Hawaiian Islands, Maldives, Caribbean Islands
What is the supreme law of the United States?
The Constitution