Geography Chp.12 Questions

A major growth in manufacturing occurred after the 1860's with the adoption of

steel production

Building larger factories to make more goods and thus reduce the price of an individual item is

economies of scale

Canada lagged behind the United States through the early 1900's economically due to

restrictions from its colonial ties to Britain

Fordism is

assembly of many components to make a few models of a product using a production line

Horizontal integration means that

one owner acquires many companies producing the same product

In the mid-1900s the main sources of immigrants were

Asia and Latin America

Industrialization in the United States first grew rapidly when transportation came to be based on the

railroad

Most of Canada's commercial timber production comes from

The West Coast

New England's economic boom of the 1990s, known as the "Massachusetts Miracle," was based on

high-tech industries

The capital of Canada is

Ottawa

The first commercial crop of the British North American colonies was

tobacco

Which group is not a major part of the opposition to independence for Quebec?

Native Cree people, English-speaking and other buisness owners, Recent, diverse immigrants

The value of manufacture products exceeded the value of agricultural products for the first time in

1860

The primary resource for the Native Americans who lived on the plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains was

bison

The first immigrants to the United States after the Native Americans came from

Northwestern Europe

Climatic environments within North America are mainly

temperate midlatitude

Francophones, or French-speaking people, make up about ___________ percent of the Canadian population.

25

The United States with 4.5 percent of the world's population uses _____ percent of the world's energy resources.

25

The majority of African Americans live in

Southeast

The Canadian region receiving the most federal economic aid is

the Atlantic provinces

Loyalists fleeing the incipient United States at the time of the American Revolution settled

both east of the St. Lawrence Valley and on the north and west shores of Lake Ontario

Most of Canada's commercial timber production comes from

The West Coast

The first commercial crop of the British North American colonies was

tobacco

The most important source of income to many Native American groups is

gambling casinos

The largest minority in the United States is

Spanish-speaking

In the late 1800s, the majority of immigrants to the United States came from

Eastern and Southern Europe

Canada gained a degree of independence through the British North America Act in

1867

The Canadian city with a pre-1800 historic heart is

Quebec

The Southern rural region that is one of the materially poorest in the United States is

the Mississippi Delta

Most of the population of Canada lives

in a narrow band near the U.S. border

The rapid growth of suburbs after 1945 depended on the development of

limited-access highways

In the mid-1700s, the _________ became the dominant colonial power in North America.

British

A second U.S. core, besides Megalopolis, is

The West Coast

The economic fortunes of Appalachia have been based on the unstable market for

coal

There were three main areas of settlements along the Atlantic coast in the 1700's, which of the following was not one of them

the Georgia Florida area