Unit 6 United States

The United States is a federal republic, which divides power among national, state, and local governments, but it is also a representative democracy, which means that

• each person has one vote.

• the national government is more powerful than the state and local governments.

• the people rule through elected representatives.

• elected officials are not answerable to their constituents.

The economy of the United States is run on a free enterprise system, in which

• goods and services are sold or traded at the highest profit margin possible.

• the government retains strict controls over businesses, resources, and technology that are sold or traded for profit.

• businesses, resources, and technology are worker-owned and operated.

• the government exerts little control over businesses, resources, and technology operated for profit by private individuals.

Along with human migration, Europeans were also involved in the Columbian Exchange between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, which included the exchange of

• cultural trading, such as art, music, and dance

• arms and ammunition.

• plants, animals, and diseases.

• political and philosophical ideas.

Many American corporations are involved in business worldwide and are called

• multinationals.

• service industries

• free enterprise.

• postindustrialists.

The subregion of the United States also known as “the rustbelt” is

• the South.

• the West

• the Midwest.

• the Northeast.

During the 1800s, sectionalism within the rapidly growing United States eventually led to

• the Louisiana Purchase

• slave labor.

• westward movement.

• the Civil War.

A majority of Americans work in fields such as information processing, finance, medicine, and education, which are parts of the

• postindustrial economy.

• service industry

• exports industry.

• free enterprise system.

A region that includes several large cities, their suburbs, and nearby towns is called a

• suburban area.

• megalopolis.

• development sector

• metropolitan area.

The United States is currently in what is called a postindustrial economy because

• manufacturing is no longer the country’s most important industry

• World War II caused a significant change in how the country’s industry operated.

• the country leads the world in trading.

• the country’s industrial output is the greatest in the world.

Most of the tribes that experienced removals to Indian Territory originated in which region of the country?

• the West

• the South

• the Midwest

• the south and midwest