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A-History Final
History Review Ch. 1-18 6th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Communist leader who agreed to a plan of "restructuring" | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| American war in which the North and South fought against each other | Civil War |
| an Islamic terrorist group responsible for attacks including the 9/11 attack | al Quaeda |
| the U.S. entered World War II because of this attack | Pearl Harbor |
| second longest and largest river in the world | Amazon |
| world's largest shell | Horse |
| first successful English colony in America | Jamestown |
| largest canyon in the world | Grand Canyon |
| most prominent landform in eastern North America | Appalachian Mountains |
| permanently frozen ground | permafrost |
| first European city in the Americas | Isabela |
| second largest country in the world | Canada |
| capital of Equador | Quito |
| man who led the expedition that discovered the North Pole | Peary |
| Indians who built the first great civilization of the Western Hemisphere | Inca |
| one of the countries where the U.S. military attacked terrorists in the "War on Terror" | Afighanistan |
| first American to orbit earth | John Glenn |
| Operation Desert Storm was directed against this country | Iraq |
| person who wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values | Conservative |
| President during World War I | Woodrow Wilson |
| second largest island in the West Indies | Hispaniola |
| language of the Incas | Quecha |
| agreement or understanding between two or more countries | treaty |
| probably the greatest inventor in history | Thomas Edison |
| cruel dictator of the Soviet Union during World War I | Joseph Stalin |
| most famous pioneer during colonial times | Daniel Boone |
| world's largest island | Greenland |
| capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War | Richmond |
| the first black man to reach the North Pole | Matthew Henry |
| the power of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II | Adolf Hitler |
| one of the best known circuit-riding preachers | Peter Cartwright |
| turning point of the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg |
| founder of the Methodist church | John Weasley |
| emperor of the Aztecs | Montezuma |
| Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs | Hernando Corte`s |
| capital of Puerto Rico | San Juan |
| what country is called the "Island of Springs",and its capital is Kingston | Jamaica |
| what two countries make up Hispaniola | Hati and the Dominican Republic |
| where is probaly the place where Columbus landed | San Salvador |
| the only country the U.S. owns | Virgin Islands |
| largest island in the West Indies | Cuba |
| when people are given a fixed daily allowance of food | rationed |
| the zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Capicorn | Torrid Zone |
| largest rodent in the world | Capybara |
| world's largest tropical rain forest | Amazon River Basin |