Service Jobs
Seventy-five percent of people in the United States and Canada are employed in...
Market Economic System
The freedom to own, operate, and profit from one's own business is the basis for a...
Silicon Valley
Home to about 20 of the world's 100 largest high-tech companies.
1 Billion Acres
Number of acres the United States used for agriculture.
Wheat Belt
Prairie Provinces of Canada and the Great Plains of the United States is known as...
Decreased
Since the 50's, the number of farmers in the U.S. and Canada...
Technology
Today, crops can be grown in nontraditional growing areas because of advances in agricultural...
20%
In both the United States and Canada, manufacturing makes up this much percent of economic activity...
Transportation
The region's largest manufacturing export is _____ machinery and equipment...
Service
A Post-industrial economy is one in which technology and ___ employ a large number of people...
NAFTA
This implementation created one of the world's largest trading blocs.
Retooling
Transforming old or abandoned factories for new uses, as is being done in Pittsburgh...
Automobile
In the United States and Canada, the most popular form of transportation is the...
Air Pollution
Heavy use of the automobile in the region has lead to ____
Monopoly
U.S. government monitors rates and services of broadcasting and telephone services to make sure these do not exist...
Surplus
Because the United States and Canada produce a ____ of goods, they have plenty of goods to trade with the rest of the world.
Trade Deficit
The large deficit of the United States caused by a lot of items being imported and less being exported.
Smart Border Action Plan
After the terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. and Canada created this to enhance border security...
Loyalists
Immigrants to Canada, called ____, remained loyal to the British government and fled to Canada after the American Revolution...
French
Most of Quebec's people are of this descent...
U.S.-Canada Border
Today, most of the Canadian population lives along the ____.
Toronto
Canada's largest city.
200,000
When Europeans arrived in what is now Canada, about ____ native peoples were already living there...
Great Britain
In 1670, territorial rivalry over what is now Canada began between France and ____.
The Quebec Act
In 1774, this gave French settlers the right to maintain their own language, religion, and laws.
Dominion
Self governing, but with close ties to Great Britain, Canada was created as a ____.
Nationalism
In 1885, British immigration fueled French ____ in Quebec.
WWII
Canada became a military and industrial power as a result of this war...
Barriers
FTA and NAFTA have eliminated trade ____ between Canada and the United States...
Separatism
Today many French-speaking Canadians support this reate independent countries
English/French
Canada's two official languages.
Christians
Largest religious group in Canada.
97%
Canada's literacy rate.
Production Center
Toronto has the world's third largest ____ in the English-speaking world.
Wealth
Canada is one of the ____ countries in the world.