Geography
The Major Mountain Range of the western US
Rocky Mountains
____________sailed the Ocean Blue in _____.
Columbus 1492
Region home to Virginia, Maryland.
Southern Colonies.
Theory of how the first people came to the Americas.
Land Bridge theory
Branch of government which includes the Senate and House of Representatives.
Legislative Branch
River running from Colorado south - it becomes US-Mexico border.
Rio Grande
Other than gold - European explorers were seeking .........
Northwest Passage
Rocky soil - natural harbors, fast shallow rivers.
New England
Mississippians - People of the midwest and south who lived along rivers before Columbus.
Mound builders
Branch where members are appointed and confirmed, not elected.
Judicial
Major Mountain Range of the Eastern US.
Appalachians
These Scandinavians beat Columbus to the Americas but weren't the first here.
Vikings
Diverse, Quakers, Breadbasket
Middle Colonies
Great Plains nomads hunted without the use of _____________ prior to Columbus.
Horses
President's check (power) over congress.
Veto
Mountain Range of the Inca
Andes
Sailor for England and the Netherlands - cast away in his own bay.
Henry Hudson
Type of government found in the rural south - and the US today.
Representative
South American food which would dominate the Irish diet after Columbus.
Potatoes
The legislative body which decides elections when no party has a majority of electoral votes.
House of Representatives.
Carolina farming region between the Mountains and the Tidewater.
Piedmont
As a result of this practice - people began to abandon their nomadic lifestyles.
Farming
Pilgrims - Puritans - Pequots
New England
Lake Texoco -- causeways --- Chinampas -- Tenochtitlan
Aztecs
2/3 of the House and Senate can cancel a president's veto. This is called an ___________
Override