S.S. Final Exam
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- Christopher Columbus
- Italian explorer who sailed to the Caribbean trying to find a western route to Asia
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The American Constitution
- the highest law of the United States written by leaders in Philadelphia and approved in 1788
- William Clark
- went with Meriwether Lewis to explore lands west of the mississippi
- civil rights movement
- movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
- Interior Plains
- between the rockies in the west and the appalachians in the east is this large lowland. once covered by great inland sea
- tropics
- the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
- Mount St. Helens
- a volcanic peak in southwest washington
- labor force
- People who work for pay or who are looking for work
- Jane Addams
- social reformer who helped the poor
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- African American civil rights leader
- World War I
- War between the allies and central powers that lasted form 1914 - 1918. The U.S. joined the Allies in 1917 helping the allies to win the war.
- immigrant
- a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- Cold War
- A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
- Revolutionary War
- American colonists' war of independence from Britain, fought from 1775-1783.
- rain shadow
- the drier side of mountain
- Mississippi River
- River system in the mid part of United States
- indentured servant
- a person who is bonded or contracted to work for another for a specified time
- Pennsylvania Colony
- a place founded by William Penn where all people ,regardless of race or religion, were treated fairly
- permafrost
- permanently frozen layers of soil
- segregate
- to separate
- Harry S. Truman
- Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
- Continental Divide
- Mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of continent
- Winnipeg
- city in Canada's Interior Plains where winter temperatures are very cold (averages 0 degrees) yet there are summer temperatures
- Fugitive Slave Act
- of 1850 made it much easier to capture runaway slaves and includes much harsher punishment
- Imperial Valley
- has vast vegetable fields operated by agribusinesses and located in southern California
- abolitionist
- a person who wishes to abolish or end slavery
- Great Plains
- flat tree-less landscape that stretches through the central portion of north america from texas to canada
- St. Lawrence River
- runs east from Lake Ontario into the Altlantic Ocean
- Meriwether Lewis
- went with William Clark to explore lands west of the mississippi
- Thomas Jefferson
- Responsible for Louisiana Purchase and Declaration of Independence
- desert scrub
- desert vegetaion that needs little water
- Appalachian Mountains
- main mountain range running through the eastern US
- Woodrow Wilson
- President during World War I
- forests
- an area covered with trees
- Industrial Revolution
- the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
- Andrew Jackson
- Military hero and seventh president
- Reconstruction
- Time period after Civil War
- Articles of Confederation
- This document, the nation's first constituion, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1871 during the Revolution. The document was limited because states held most of the power, and Congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage
- indigenous
- Native to a place.
- climate zones
- Polar, temperate, and tropical
- communism
- No private ownership, everyone is equal
- settlement house
- a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services
- The Treaty of Paris
- Ended the War for Independence
- Manifest Density
- belief by native americans/ 1800s/ that US should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean
- Death Valley
- hottest and driest part of North America
- glacier
- a slowly moving mass of ice
- Rocky Mountains
- The major mountain range in Western North America.
- missionary
- a person who spreads his/her religious beliefs to others
- World War II
- this began when Germany invaded Poland in 1934; the US became involved when Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan in 1941
- Andrew Johnson
- President who takes office after assassination of Lincoln
- Homestead Act
- Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years
- Great Lakes
- a group of 5 lakes in central North America
- Franklin Roosevelt
- managed to pull Americans out of the Great Depression and lead them to victory in World War II
- agribusiness
- a large-scale farming enterprise
- George Washington
- Commander in the war of independence, 1st president of the USA
- Great Depression
- the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- William Penn
- Founder of Pennsylvania
- tributary
- a branch that flows into the main stream
- Vancouver
- a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada; it rains there year round
- Civil War
- Armed conflict over the issue of slavery
- Jacob Riis
- He wrote the book How the Other Half Lives after touring crowded apartments, where families lived jammed together and conditions were terrible
- tundra
- a cold dry region that is covered with snow more than half the year
- Grand Coulee Dam
- a dam on the Columbia River in the state of Washington and produces more hydroelectricity than any other dam in the U.S
- Abraham Lincoln
- President during the Civil War
- hydroelectricity
- electric power produced by rushing water
- providence
- areas in Canada divded like states in U.S.
- St. Lawrence Lowlands
- most canadians live here because of its proximity to the us mild climate and the trade routes the great lakes provide
- alluvial
- pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
- Jamestown
- First permanent English settlement in North America
- Louisiana Purchase
- Bought from France in 1803; double the size of the U.S.
- prairie
- a treeless grassy plain
- plantation
- large farm or estate