United States - Chapter 5

The Rocky Mountains form a _________ in the United States with rivers on the west flowing toward the Pacific Ocean and those on the east flowing towards the Mississippi River.

• continental divide
• tributary
• drainage basin
• canyon

Many Africans were brought to the United States in the 1700s and 1800s to work on __________ as slaves.

• plantations
• wagon trains
• coal mines
• factories

The __________ are an old range in the eastern United States found just to the west of the Piedmont.

• Appalachian Mountains
• Cascades
• Sierra Nevada
• Rocky Mountains

The United States was once made up of 13 __________ of Great Britain.

• colonies
• commonwealths
• territories
• states

The Missouri River is a __________ of the Mississippi River.

• tributary
• delta
• source
• mouth

The __________ cover much of the western United States and extend from Canada to the north and south into Mexico.

• Rocky Mountains
• Sierra Nevadas
• Cascades
• Appalachian Mountains

The area in the Northeast US from Boston to Washington D.C. is a ___________.

• megalopolis
• capital
• rural area
• tributary

The ____________ begins in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Mississippi River
• Missouri River
• Rocky Mountains
• Appalachian Mountains

____________ moved to the western United States in search of land and later gold.

• pioneers
• soldiers
• slaves
• colonists

Many people in the United States are ___________, speaking both English and a second language.

• bilingual
• monolingual
• indigenous