| A | B |
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| A U.S. city noted for its steel industry | Pittsburg, PA |
| U.S. city known for its meatpacking industry | Chicago, IL |
| A harbor where the U.S.S. Maine was sun | Havana, Cuba |
| Territories acquired by the U.S. as a result of the victory in the Spanish-American War | Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam |
| WWI alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia | Allies |
| WWI alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungry | Central Powers |
| The U.S. area central in 1920's - 30's for African-American artists, writers, and musicians | Harlem, NY |
| Turning point battle during WWII and decisive victory for U.S. in the Pacific | Midway Island |
| Country invaded by Germany that began WWII | Poland |
| Turning point in WWII in Eastern Europe; involved German invasion and Soviet victory | Stalingrad |
| Site in France that was the beginning of an American/Allied liberation of Western Europe known as D-Day | Normandy |
| Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs during WWII | Hiroshima, Nagasaki |
| Nation that controlled Eastern Germany after WWII | Soviet Union |
| Nation that occupied and rebuilt Japan after WWII | United States |
| Nation that sent missiles in Cuba directed at U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviet Union |
| Country where U.S.sent troops to stop Chinese/Communist aggression from the North; eventually ends in cease-fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops | Viet Nam |
| Action taken by these 11 states during the American Civil War (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) | Secession |
| First major battle of the Civil War | Manassas, VA |
| Civil War battle in which North gained control of the Mississippi River and divided the South | Vicksburg, MS |
| Turning point of the American Civil War | Gettysburg, PA |
| The end of the Civil War; Lee surrenders to Grant | Appomattox, VA |
| Confederates launch attack that begins American Civil War | Fort Sumter, SC |
| Compromise of 1850- California enters as free state- territory that would make own decision about slavery | Southwest |
| Territory that doubled size of U.S.; purchased from France by Thomas Jefferson | Louisiana |
| Per Thomas Jefferson's request, the two men who explored territory wet of Mississippi River to the Pacific | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark |
| First armed conflict of the American Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord, MA |
| Turning point of Revolutionary War; colonial victory | Saratoga, NY |
| Final colonial victory of War for Independence; surrender of Lord Cornwallis | Yorktown, VA |
| City of two Revolutionary War events- "tea party" and "massacre" | Boston, MA |
| Mountains west of Coastal Plain extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama | Appalachians |
| Land area west of Interior Lowlands, east of Rocky Mts.; flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands | Great Plains |
| Area of U.S.determines directional flow of rivers; located in Rocky Mts. | Continental Divide |
| Major river of U.S. with its source in MN and mouth in LA; links farms/industry with ports to all parts of world | Mississippi River |
| Colonies with hilly terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline, Boston Harbor, Appalachian Mts. | New England |
| Colonies with Appalachian Mts., Coastal Lowlands, harbors, bays, wide/deep rivers | Mid-Atlantic |
| Colonies with Atlantic Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Appalachian Mts., good harbors, rivers | Southern |
| Present-day state that contains first English settlement; Roanoke Island (the Lost Colony) | North Carolina |
| First permanent English settlement; sponsored by the London Company as economic venture | Virginia |
| Territory acquired by U.S. from Spain in a treaty; would become southern pennisula state | Florida |
| Territory added to U.S. after becoming independent republic | Texas |
| Territory became state after U.S. won war with Mexico; site of Gold Rush in 1840's | California |
| Waterway completed in 1800's connecting Albany, NY on the Hudson to Buffalo, NY on Lake Erie | Erie Canal |
| Trails of the Westward movement that began in Independence, MO/ended in Oregon and New Mexico | Oregon, Santa Fe |
| Native Americans who inhabited the mild, rainy Pacific Northwest Coast | Kwakiutl |
| Native Americans who inhabited present-day Alaska/Northern Canada; both Arctic areas where temperatures remain below freezing most of year | Inuit |
| Native Americans who inhabited the Great Plains | Sioux |
| North American area explored by French, Robert La Salle | Mississippi River Valley |
| Area of U.S. explored by Spanish, Coronado | Southwest |
| Present-day state settled by religious groups seeking to avoid persecution in Europe | Massachusetts |
| Present-day state settled by people of English debtor's prison; came to New World for new life/economic freedom | Georgia |
| WWII alliance among Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union, Canada | Allies |
| Surprise Japanese attack of U.S. in Dec. 1941; brought U.S. into WWII | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Two states that form noncontiguous U.S. region | Alaska, Hawaii |
| Region of U.S. containing TX, NM, OK, AZ | Southwest Region |
| U.S. region containing CO, UT, NV, MT, WY, ID | Rocky Mt. Region |
| Region of U.S. containing OH, IN, IL, MI, WI, MN, IA, MO, KS, NE, SD, ND | Midwest Region |
| U.S. region containing states of OR, CA, WA | Pacific Region |
