Question | Answer |
What modern day countries were British colonies in the Western Hemisphere? | part of Canada, part of the U.S., Guyana, Jamaica, and Belize |
What modern day countries were French colonies in the Western Hemisphere? | part of Canada, part of the U.S., Haiti, and French Guiana |
What modern day countries were Dutch colonies in the Western Hemisphere? | Suriname |
What modern day countries were Portuguese colonies in the Western Hemisphere? | Brazil |
What modern day countries were Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere? | part of the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina |
What form of government were the Western Hemisphere colonies before the American Revolution? | monarchy |
What form of government did the Western Hemisphere countries change to after the American Revolution? | representative democracy |
What are the two main forms of representative democracy? | Presidential and Parilaimentary |
What type of representative democracy is the United States? | Presidential |
What type of representative democracy is Canada? | Parliamentary |
What two people led the revolutions in South America? | Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar |
Who led the Mexican Revolution? | Father Miguel Hidalgo |
Who simply declared Brazil independent from Portugal? | Dom Pedro II |
Which Western Hemisphere Country gained gradual independence from Great Britain? They became completely independent in 1931. | Canada |
What are the three branches of the U.S. government? | legislative, judicial, and executive |
What is the job of the judicial branch of the U.S. government? | explain or interpret laws |
What is the job of the legislative branch of the U.S. government? | make laws |
What is the job of the executive branch of the U.S. government? | enforce laws |
Who is the head of the legislative branch of the U.S. government? | Congress |
Who is the head of the judicial branch of the U.S. government? | Supreme Court |
Who is the head of the executive branch of the U.S. government? | President |
Who is the head of the legislative branch of the Canadian government? | Parliament |
Who is the head of the judicial branch of the Canadian government? | Supreme Court |
What are the two houses of the U.S. Congress? | Senate and House of Representatives |
What are the two houses of the Canadian Parliament? | Senate and House of Commons |
What form of economics was still the most common in the Western Hemisphere after the American revolution? | traditional |
What words mean an event or series of events that change the way a group of people live? | turning point |
What were the major effects of the turning point known as the American Revolution on the people of the Western Hemisphere? | most governments became representative democracies, European countries were almost entirely eliminated from the Western Hemisphere |
Which form of government elects representatives to speak for and make decisions for the people who elected them? | representative democracy |