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1
What is NAFTA?
Free trade between Canada, Mexico, and the US
It raises taxes on trade between Canada, Mexico, and the US
Disagreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US
It bans immigration between Canada, Mexico, and the US
2
What are intense storms that form over the tropical Atlantic Ocean?
tornadoes
earthquakes
hurricanes
volcanic eruptions
3
What is the right to rule oneself?
diaspora
Santeria
independence
isthmus
4
What is a time of rebirth?
Kyoto Protocol
Magna Carta
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
5
What is a series of military expeditions by European Christians to take control of Palestine?
Holocaust
Velvet Revolution
Crusades
Ice Age
6
What is a legendary place full of gold?
Brazil
La Violencia
Latin America
El Dorado
7
What is the post-WWII period of hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Renaissance
Feudalism
Magna Carta
Cold War
8
What is the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during WWII?
Velvet Revolution
Crusades
Holocaust
Ice Age
9
What are Spanish soldier-explorers?
conquistadors
paramilitaries
criollos
caudillos
10
What is precipitation that is acidic?
Ice age
Marshall Plan
Acid rain
Fascism
11
What is a plant community made up of grasses, mosses, herbs, and low shrubs?
City-state
Tundra
Acid Rain
Holocaust
12
What is a good or service that is produced within a country and sold in another country?
climate
import
export
diplomacy
13
How is French Guiana different from the rest of the South American countries?
It is not Catholic
It is the only country that doesn't speak Spanish
It is a territory, not a country
It has the largest oil industry in the continent
14
What is a thick forest of coniferous trees?
Pollution
Humanism
Tyrant
Taiga
15
What is the document which limited the king's power?
Industrial Revolution
Magna Carta
Cold War
Kyoto Protocol
16
What are governments controlled by a single leader?
democracies
parliamentary
monarchies
dictatorships
17
What is a movement for African-American equality?
Manifest Destiny
unlimited government
Civil Rights movement
Great Depression
18
What is an economy based on exports?
dictatorship
tariffs
boom and bust cycle
export economy
19
What are people who wanted to end slavery
paramilitaries
abolitionists
peninsulares
oligarchies
20
What did the Catholic Church build to sustain itself over time?
stone aqueducts
cathedrals
manors with castles
colosseums
21
What is a powerful leader?
humanism
republic
direct democracy
tyrant
22
What is a time of lower temperatures when much of the land was covered in ice?
Scientific Revolution
Ice Age
Fascism
Emigrate
23
What is the average temperature over a period of time?
climate
plantation
temperate
migration
24
How did Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press affect European culture?
Spread new ideas and information
Catholic Church became more powerful
Helped Renaissance artists like spread their work
Helped ships cross the Atlantic more quickly
25
What was a wave of political violence from 1948-1957?
austerity measures
MERCOSUR
El Dorado
La Violencia
26
The U.S. government has many features from Greek and Roman government.
False
True
27
What is Pax Romana?
epidemic
peace
war
food
28
What effect did Renaissance humanism have on the Catholic Church?
more people accepted Catholic teachings
more people criticized Catholic Church
more people supported Catholic Church
ended Catholic influence in Europe
29
How did the European Union encourages cooperation among nations?
tarrifs
common currency
limited trade zones
military alliance
30
What is a worldwide economic slump during the 1930s?
export
Constitutional Republic
Manifest Destiny
Great Depression
31
What are the two main industries in Brazil
oil and alpaca wool
sugar and oil
coffee and sugar
coffee and oil
32
Private businesses, not government, make decisions about economy in this economy
communist
free enterprise
diplomacy
socialist
33
What is an overthrow of the government called?
austerity measures
literacy
coup
boom and bust cycle
34
How were lords and knights connected in the Middle Ages?
Lords granted knights land in exchange for military service
Knights forced King John to sign the Magna Carta
Knights conquered the Holy Land and gave it to lords
Lords built monasteries for knights to live in
35
What are Spaniards born in the Americas
conquistadors
peninsulares
criollos
paramilitaries
36
What is a variety of living things?
hacienda
diaspora
biodiversity
ecotourism
37
What is a religious movement that led to the founding of Protestant churches?
Velvet Revolution
Ice Age
Reformation
Holocaust
38
What is a time in which new technologies transformed manufacturing and changed society forever?
Multinational Corporation
Industrial Revolution
Mechanized Farming
Cold War
39
What is a government structure in which there are no effective limits on government actions?
confederacy
diplocay
unlimited government
limited government
40
What are crops grown mainly for sale?
export
cash crops
import
migration
41
What is a government where citizens vote directly for laws?
tyrant
direct democracy
English Bill of Rights
republic
42
What is a natural defense?
austerity measures
MERCOSUR
terraced farming
immunity
43
Who was the leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
Christopher Columbus
Toussaint L'Ouverture
George Washington
44
Why did Europeans bring slaves from Africa to the Caribbean?
most of the native people died
the natives went on strike
they wanted entertainment from the African music
there was no culture
45
What is the process where water, ice, and wind remove rocks and soil from the Earth's surface?
erosion
diaspora
hurricanes
deforestation
46
What is the area of the Americas influenced by the countries of Spain, France, and Portugal?
offshore oil
Latin America
El Dorado
MERCOSUR
47
What is a wood that produces a red dye?
capoeira
brazilwood
tariff
offshore oil
48
What is a large commercial farm called?
diplomacy
migration
export
plantation
49
Who contributed to democracy in Athens?
Hitler and Stalin
da Vinci and Michelangelo
Gutenberg and Galileo
Solon and Pericles
50
Why did farmers abandon their land in the 1930s?
Gold Rush
World War 2
Dust Bowl
Manifest Destiny
51
What is a fuel that can be made from sugar cane?
El Dorado
MERCOSUR
offshore oil
ethanol
52
What are taxes on imports called?
criollos
offshore oil
paramilitaries
tariffs
53
What is a period of economic growth followed by a period of sharp decline?
offshore oil
boom and bust cycle
austerity measures
La Violencia
54
Galileo and Isaac Newton made great contributions during the Scientific Revolution
False
True
55
What is an area of land with water on 3 sides and connected to the mainland?
Taiga
Republic
Peninsula
Plains
56
Cuba has what type of government?
monarchy
dictatorship
parliamentary democracy
presidential democracy
57
Which shows the social classes in order from most powerful to least?
peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Native Americans
peninsulares, criollos, Native Americans, mestizos
criollos, mestizos, peninsulares, Native Americans
mestizos, criollos, Native Americans, peninsulares
58
What is oil mined from the sea?
paramilitaries
abolitionists
offshore oil
urban planning
59
What is an independent city that controls the surrounding area?
acid rain
emigrate
city-state
tundra
60
How was the government of ancient Athens different from most democratic countries today?
It was a direct democracy
People had no say in government
It was an oligarchy
Gave women the right to vote
61
What is government structure in which government actions are limited law?
limited government
diplomacy
unlimited government
Manifest Destiny
62
What effect has acid rain had in Europe?
It has made the farmland stronger
It has damaged historic buildings, forests, and lakes
It has led to drier conditions in the Mediterranean
It has improved the health of the people
63
What is a good or service sold within a country and produced in another country?
diplomacy
climate
export
import
64
What is it called when people vote to accept or reject a law?
oligarchy
referendum
urban planning
austerity measures
65
What are slow-moving masses of ice and snow?
loess
feudalism
glacier
Cold War
66
To leave an area and move to a new place is called what?
Tundra
Crusades
Ice age
Emigrate
67
What are people of Spanish and indigenous background?
Arawak
mestizos
Carib
Maya
68
What is the wall built to divide East and West Berlin in the Cold War?
Feudalism
Kyoto Protocol
Berlin Wall
Multinational corporation
69
What is a government in which citizens have the right to vote and elect officials?
English Bill of Rights
republic
direct democracy
tyrant
70
What is the harmful material released into the environment?
plains
pollution
taiga
humanism
71
How did the Spanish take over the Incan Empire?
They found the most gold and won it
They asked them nicely
They let the Sapa Inca rule and followed him.
They killed Atahualpa in front of his people
72
Who did Evo Morales help?
militaries
natives and the poor
businesses
politicians
73
What is a large area of flat or gently rolling land?
Taiga
Pollution
Plains
Peninsula
74
What is the planning of a city called?
ethanol
abolitionist
oligarchy
urban planning
75
What are armed forces not authorized by government?
paramilitaries
criollos
abolitionists
conquistadors
76
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were great Medieval artists.
False
True
77
Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
FDR
George Bush
George Washington
78
What is farming with machines?
mechanized farming
Magna Carta
multinational corporation
feudalism
79
Why does Costa Rica have a stable government?
they have no army
they have a communist government
they have many natural resources
they are very poor
80
What is the clearing of large numbers of trees?
erosion
deforestation
isthmus
diaspora
81
Who established the colony of Suriname in Caribbean South America?
Dutch
French
British
Spanish
82
What is democracy in which the people elect representatives to make the nation’s laws?
monarch
direct democracy
dictatorship
representative democracy
83
What is a small group that holds political power, or a system of rule by the few
democracy
oligarchy
paramilitary
dictatorship
84
How did the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine affect local people?
They grew wealthy from increased coal production
They had to leave their homes, abandoning the city
They fled at the time, but were soon able to return and rebuild
They used more nuclear plants
85
What is an economic and political partnership among member nations?
Totalitarianism
English Bill of Rights
Direct Democracy
European Union
