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Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He opened the world's first electric power plant | Thomas Edison |
| The first people to form the first confederation in North America | Iroquois |
| He was the leader of the American Army during the American Revolution | George Washington |
| She was author of America the Beautiful | Katharine Lee Bates |
| He was an English explorer of the Northeast Coast | Henry Hudson |
| These people came up with a plan for peace for the Iroquois | Hiawatha and Deganawidah |
| This is made by people who took part in or saw the event | primary source |
| Mountains and valleys are physical features of what area of the US? | Northeast |
| Immigrants came to the Northeast because | they had bad lives and were looking for better lives |
| What three colonies became states first? | Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania |
| What Northeast city had the largest immigration center in the US? | New York, New York |
| During what time period were the eight colonies started Northeast? | 1600's |
| What is a huge slow moving mass of ice? | glacier |
| Where did marble and granite come from in the early Northeast? | quarries |
| Who were the only people in the Northeast in the 1500's? | Native Americans |
| What formed the Great Lakes? | Massive glaciers |
| What scraped soil away exposed top soil? | Glaciers |
| What is a protected area of water where ships dock? | harbor |
| What is an area where ships trade goods | port |
| What caused growth in Northeaster cities in the 1800's and 1900's? | Immigration and factory work |
| What was the effect of colonies being angry about Britain's over taxing? | US became an independent nation |
| What where 3 changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution | steam machines became popular electric power plants provide electricity Electricity lead to inventions like the telegraph and lightbulb |
| A factory in which fibers such as cotton and wool are woven into textiles, or cloth | textile mill |
| A period in which new sources of power were used to replace machines powered by hand, allowing people to make more goods faster | industrial revolution |
| A huge urban region formed when two or more metropolitan areas grow together | megalopolis |
| A large city together with nearby cities and suburbs | metropolitan area |
| A person who lives in a colony | colonist |
| A major, sudden change in government or in people's lives | revolution |
| A settlement that is ruled by a faraway government | colony |
| An official statement | declaration |
| freedom | independence |
| A loosely united group of governments that work together | confederation |
| a waterway dug across land | canal |
| A settlement that is ruled by a far away government | colony |
| Growth of cities | urban growth |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| When was the declaration of independence signed? | July 1776 |
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