Unit 2 Test Review-Mr. Dupuy

Why did North America's major cities develop along rivers?

Missionaries were not sent by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Indigenous Americans to Christianity.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused health problems and harmed wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

Who were the leaders of the Mexican Revolution.

Who discovered the Americas?

The _______ Peninsula is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico.

The top social class of colonial Mexico.

Carib, Aztec, Choctaw, Maya, Pueblo, and many more cultures thrived in America prior to European contact.

The North had a plantation economy and the South and Caribbean had a manufacturing economy.

The business of producing crops to sell.

Mexican Revolutionary leaders wanted freedom from _______, or harsh government.

A _______ is a Spanish soldier-explorer.

This lake separates the US from Canada.

This mountain range can be found in Mexico.

The cultural traditions of the _______, _______, and _______ of West Africa are present in Louisiana.

What caused the US to enter WWII?

What natural resources come from Mexico's mountains?

Which Mexican civilization studied astronomy, developed a calendar, and had a system of writing?

Texas joined the US when it was _______ in 1845.

Characteristics of Caribbean and Southern US economies in the 19th century:

Humid equatorial climates have high temperatures and lots of rainfall.

The US Constitution is considered a “living” document because it allows for _______, or formal changes to law.

_______ produced one quarter of the world's sugar.

This causes one side of a mountain to be dry and the other side fertile.

What is true of the Great Lakes?

The capital of Canada

What percentage of African prisoners of war voyaged to Brazil and the Caribbean?

What happened to the Americas in the 1500s?

At the center of North America lie the 48 _______, or connected, United States.

Characteristics of humid equatorial climates include: