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New Yor Review
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was an early artist of the Hudson River School? | Thomas Cole |
| Who mapped out the town of Rochester? | Nathaniel Rochester |
| Where was the center of the New York leather industry? | Gloversville |
| DeWitt Clinton poured water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic ocean in the____ | Wedding of the Waters |
| What was brought about as the result of the destruction of the Irish potato crop in 1845? | a famine |
| Who wrote action filled stories about life on the New York frontier? | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Most of the new settlers in the Genesee country were from what region? | New England |
| What is called the first "boomtown" in the country? | Rochester |
| Who was the Seneca leader who did not want to sell land to the Holland Land Comapny? | Red Jacket |
| Where did the American Navy defeat the British during the War of 1812? | Lake Champlain |