| A | B |
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| Appalachians | mountains along the east side of the US |
| Rockies | mountains along the west side of the US |
| Mississippi River | runs 2,348 miles from near Canada border to the Gulf of Mexico |
| Yukon | drains Alaska and NW Canada |
| St. Lawrence | drains Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Colorado River | river that created the Grand Canyon |
| Rio Grande | river that borders between US (Texas) and Mexico |
| Great Lakes | created by glacial erosion |
| Great Salt Lake | lake located in Utah |
| Bering Strait | body of water that separates Alaska from Russia; location of land bridge where Asians crossed to come to the Us |
| England | country that settled the 13 colonies that eventually became the US |
| Spain | country settled California, Florida, and the SW |
| France | country that settled Louisiana and parts of Canada |
| Northern colonies | good fishing & timber; Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Mass, & Conn |
| Middle colonies | New York, New Jersey, Penn, & Delaware |
| Southern colonies | Virginia, Maryland, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, & Georgia; plantations |
| July 4, 1776 | date of the US Declaration of Independence |
| British Commonwealth | limited unification of former English colonies |
| Manifest Destiny | expansion of US territory from "sea to shining sea" |
| Louisiana Purchase | in 1803 the US bought it from France |
| Mexico | US took Texas and the SW from this country |
| Russia | the country the US bought Alaska from |
| Constitution | the document that sets up the US government |
| Bill of Rights | first 10 Amendments to Constitution |
| Representative Democracy | type of gov't in the US |
| executive branch | President in US, Prime Minister in Canada |
| legislative branch | Congress in US; Parliament in Canada |
| judicial branch | Supreme Court |
| 10 | number of provinces in Canada |
| 50 | states in the US |
| Catholic | major religion in Canada |
| Protestant | major religion in US |
| Quebec | French speaking province of Canada |
| Washington, D.C. | capital of the US |
| Ottawa | capital of Canada |
| Governor-General | Queen's representative in Canada; figure head |
| 435 | number of representatives in US House of Reps |
| 100 | number of Senators in US Senate |
| William Seward | US Secretary of State who bought Alaska |
| parliament | legislative branch of Canada |
| House of Commons | lower house of legislature in Canada |
| Prime Minister | executive branch of Canada |
| cajuns | Fr. speaking group of "Acadians" who moved to Louisiana |
| Cold War | state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military actions |
| industrialization | the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc. |
| civil war | war withing the US over the issue of slavery and states' rights |
| 2 | number of Canadian territories |
| Acadians | French who migrated to Louisiana and became known as cajuns |
| Contiguous | sharing a border; touching |
| Commercial agriculture | the business of producing crops to sell |
| Colonize | to build settlements and developed trade in a foreingn territory for its own benefit |
| Subsistence farming | farming to grow only enough food for families to eat, not to sell |
| Rain shadow effect | process in which moist air rises up a mountain range and then cools and falls as precipitation, leaving the other side of the range mostly dry |
| Great plains | flat area of land east of the rocky mountains |
| Great lakes | five large freshwater lakes between Canada and the United states |
| Aquifer | a layer or rock beneath earth that contains water |
| Cenote | an underground pool of water |
| Grand canyon | rock formation in southwestern united states that has been cut deeply by the Colorado River over millions of years |
| Cordillera | A system of several parallel mountain ranges |
