Unit 3 North America Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. It was the first continuous railroad line across the United States that joined the East and West coasts.
  2. 7. The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
  3. 8. idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.
  4. 11. this can refer to the theory that there was a landmass that connected North America to Asia. Which would explain how earlier humans migrated into the continent.
  5. 12. second longest river in North America
  6. 13. the South was defined as all states south of the 18th century Mason–Dixon line
  7. 15. one of the principal rivers in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.
Down
  1. 1. The process of settling or establishing control, influence and military occupancy over the indigenous people of an area.
  2. 2. established a free-trade zone in North America.
  3. 3. It is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
  4. 5. This was the exchange of goods and people between the Old World and the New World during the Age of Exploration (Europe, The Americas, and Africa).
  5. 6. The significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s.
  6. 9. The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803
  7. 10. Freedom The ability and right to freely exercise and practice whatever religion you choose or are a part of.
  8. 14. Lakes largest freshwater lake system in the world