completed A Nation of Cities Quiz

What technological advance allows people to enjoy fresh vegetables even if they live thousands of miles away from the farms that produced them?

refrigerated transport systems

What is a metropolitan area?

a large city together with its suburbs

Why has improved communication been so important to economic growth?

Better access to information improves business efficiency.

Which of the following was a result of the construction of the Erie Canal?

New cities were built along the shores of the Great Lakes.

Which of the following is at the top of the urban hierarchy?

metropolis

What kinds of natural resources helped the United States become wealthy?

farmland, forests, and minerals

What technology exists today that might be called a "mystic band" holding the nation together, as the telegraph was described in the late 1800s?

interent 

Why did it take just six weeks for a keelboat to float down the Mississippi to New Orleans but four months to make the return trip?

The return trip was upstream, against the flow of the river.

During the first century of United States history, what drove the westward movement of settlers?

Americans' desire for land to farm

The United States has a strong economy in large part because of its

democratic government.