Study Guide Name______
Unit 4: The United States
World Geography Date______Period_____
Vocabulary
1. census
2. per capita
3. American Dream
4. consumerism
5. American Dream
6. regionalism
7. abstract expressionism
8. skyscraper
9. Googie
10. blues
11. gross domestic product
12. third parties
Questions
1. What is the current population of the United States?
2. What racial/ethnic group makes up the majority of the nation’s population?
3. What percentage of the U.S. population lives in cities?
4. What is the most common language spoken in the United States?
5. What is the second most widely spoken language in our country?
6. What is the most populous religious group in the United States?
7. What percentage of the nation’s population is Muslim?
8. What are the five characteristics of civilization?
9. Who were the immigrant groups that began coming to North America in the 1500s?
10. When did the United States become independent?
11. What factors enabled the U.S. to become a world power by the late 1800s?
12. How did the international strength of our nation change during the mid-1900s?
13. Why did we accelerate our development of aerospace technology beginning in the 1950s?
14. List eight types of popular music that were created in the United States. In what region of the
country did most of these originate?
17. Where did many early blues artists call home?
18. When did rock and roll emerge as a popular style of American music?
19. Name two regionalist painters.
10. Name two abstract expressionist painters.
21. When were modern skyscrapers developed?
22. Who pioneered the Prairie style of American architecture?
23. What type of government do we have in the United States?
24. What type of economy do we have?
Concepts
1. Explain the difference between the melting pot and salad bowl concepts.
2. How can the American Dream be seen as both positive and negative?
Review all items from the Atlas and PowerPoint worksheets.
Be prepared to label all U.S. states.
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