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Chapter 6
Unit 2 United States and Canada Vocabulary Quiz Review
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Social Studies
9th Grade
11/14/2012

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The West
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North America region, consisting of 13 states that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the Pacificyea
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Megalopolis
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a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together
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Free Enterprise
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an economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technolog, and buisnesses and can operate them for profit with little control from the goverment
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New England
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the 6 northern states in the northeast united states main, vermontm new hampshire, massachusetts, rhode island, and connecticut
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Migration
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the movement of poeple within a country or a region
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Frontier
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free, open land in the American West that was available for settlement
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Metropolitan Area
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a functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically
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The Midwest
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the region that contains the 12 states of the north central united states
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The Dust Bowl
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A drought that caused rivers to dry up, livestock to die and crops to wither millions of poeple fled to the west to escape this hard time during the 1930s
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Export
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a product or good that is sold from one economy to another
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The South
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the region that contains 7 states
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