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 |