History of the Americas Questions

The economy during this period, of 1955-75, was changing also due to the changes in __________

__________ mainly from Western and Eastern Europe had poured in the United States about 14 million between 1860 and 1900

To make room for settlers the US government removed Native Americans from their lands by __________ or by __________

The ____________ arrived at about the same time during the 1600s and 1700s; they settled tot he south on rivers and bay son the Atlantic Coast from present day Maine to Georgia.

By the end of the 20th century the United States would be the world's sole __________

The French came along in the early 1600s and settled along the northern Atlantic Coast and the St. Lawrence River in what is now ____________.

The building of the __________ brought people to the West and western cattle and products to markets in the East

The United States had been protected from foreign conflicts by its two vast __________ - the __________ and __________

With urban areas undergoing change more immigrants were pouring into the cities transforming the United States from a rural agricultural nation to an urban __________ one

Some Americans started to migrate to the __________ and __________ in the last half of the 20th century

in the second half of the 19th century millions of Americans settled on newly opened lands west of the __________ and in rapidly industrialized city of the North and Midwest.

During this period of unrest the US economy boomed; despite some period of economic downturn or ___________

The French and English fought in North America over _______________ and _________________ and in 1763, _______________ gained control of all of North America east of the Mississippi River.

The tensions between South and North led to the _________________ in 1861-1865 which took 4 years fighting and more years of political conflict to reunite the country.

In 1803 the United States doubled in size when the government purchased the vast plains region between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains from France known as the __________________.

European colonies often displaced the _______________ and in 1617 the Europeans brought _____________ to America to work as slave laborers on cotton and tobacco plantations in the South.

The coming of the Europeans also began what historians call the _____________________.

In the 1800's _____________ from _____________arrived in great numbers and settled in cities in the Northeast, where industrialization was beginning.

_______________ is people placing loyalty to their region, or section, above loyalty to the nation.

The free open land that had been available and suitable for settlement was known as the __________ and was now fully settled