Chapter 4- The US East of the Mississippi

Question 1

What has caused the mountains in the Appalachian Mountain system to wear down over time?

Accepted Answer

erosion

Question 2

The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the United States.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

In which state does the Mississippi River begin?

Accepted Answer

Minnesota

Question 4

Where did many of the first English colonists settle during the 1600s?

Accepted Answer

New England

Question 5

What army was Atlanta a supply depot for during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Confederate

Question 6

What is the term for a supersized city?

Accepted Answer

megalopolis

Question 7

What is the relocation of people from the South to the North called?

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 8

What was the early settlement in Florida called?

Accepted Answer

St. Augustine

Question 9

Why did settlers pour into the southern states during the 1830s?

Accepted Answer

They went to look for gold

Question 10

How did the first Native Americans come to North America?

Accepted Answer

They crossed a land bridge from Asia.

Question 11

What are the two largest metropolitan areas east of the Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

New York and Chicago

Question 12

The U.S. government has three parts: legislative, executive, and judicial.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

The Great Lakes border the United States and ________.

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 14

What type of government describes the United States?

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 15

The Boston-Washington corridor has a population of about how many people?

Accepted Answer

50 million

Question 16

The United States east of the Mississippi River is divided into four subregions.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What is the U.S. claim to lands in the Ohio Country known as?

Accepted Answer

Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 18

What two well-known mountain ranges are part of the Appalachian Mountain system?

Accepted Answer

Blue Ridge and Great Smoky

Question 19

Which is the largest subregion in the eastern United States?

Accepted Answer

Southeast

Question 20

Why did settlers want to move inland and away from the coastal areas?

Accepted Answer

Towns along the coastal areas were too crowded.

Question 21

What is the forced migration of thousands of Cherokee known as?

Accepted Answer

Trail of Tears

Question 22

Organic farming produces foods that are filled with toxins.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

What type of climate do coastal areas tend to have?

Accepted Answer

mild

Question 24

What was the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States?

Accepted Answer

St. Augustine

Question 25

What is the name of the legislative branch of government?

Accepted Answer

Congress

Question 26

Who were the first people to settle in North America?

Accepted Answer

Native Americans

Question 27

Which group is the second largest ethnic group in the United States after Caucasians?

Accepted Answer

Hispanics

Question 28

Which river has had the most impact on the nation's history?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi and Ohio

Question 29

Which invention increased harvests and profits for cotton farmers?

Accepted Answer

cotton gin

Question 30

Where does cotton grow well?d

Accepted Answer

sandy soils

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