United States, Study Guide
In what year did the United States declare
independence?
In what year was the US Constitution written?
What was the Great Compromise?
What are the 6 regions of the country from east
to west?
What issue was the cause of the Civil War?
What is unique about the Great Lakes?
What does continental United States mean?
Where does the US rank in physical size?
Where does the US rank in population?
Where does the US rank in GDP?
How many people live in the United States?
What are the three branches of the US
government?
Who runs the executive branch?
What are the two parts of the legislative branch?
How did the first Americans come here? (not the
Pilgrims)
How many original states were there?
What kind of representative democracy does the
United States have?
In our federal republic, power is shared between
the three branches of the national government.
How else is power shared?
What kind of economic system does the United
States have?
Why is Madison considered the Father of the
Constitution?
What was the main reason the 13 colonies
declared independence from Great Britain?
Why is a large, diverse republic better than a
small one?
1776
1787
When the convention decided to have
members of the House be chosen by population
and each state would get 2 Senators regardless
of population.
Atlantic coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains,
Central Lowland, Great Plains, Rocky
Mountains, Pacific coast.
slavery
They are all connected and they are the largest
group of freshwater lakes in the world.
The 48 states that are all connected. Not Alaska
and Hawaii.
3rd
3rd
1st
320 million
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
President
House of Representatives and Senate
They crossed a land bridge called Beringia
during the Ice Age.
13
federal republic
Between the central government and the
states.
A free enterprise system where private
companies compete free of government
control.
He created the basic framework for the
Constitution and he wrote the Bill of Rights.
Great Britain began taxing the colonies and
trying to run the colonies from Great Britain.
The colonists wanted their own elected
governments to govern.
No single faction can take over and violate the
rights of others.