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What is a physical feature found in the Northeast?
What is: Mountains
What product comes from Northeast quarries?
What is: Granite
What is one of the main reasons that immigrants came to the Northeast?
What is: To make a better life
How long is a century?
What is: 100 years
What is a Glacier?
What is: Huge, slow-moving masses if ice
What group formed the first confederation in North America?
What is: The Iroquois
Which Northeast city had the largest immigration center in the United States during the early 1900's?
What is: New York City, New York
How long is a decade?
What is: 10 years
When did England start the eight colonies in the Northeast?
What is: The 1600's
Which person opened the world's first electric power plant during the industrial Revolution?
Who is: Thomas Edison
What is an example of a primary source?
What is: A Photograph
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is: Thomas Jefferson
Who was the author of "America the Beautiful"?
What is: Katherine Lee Bates
Who was the English explorer of the Northeast coast?
Who is: Henry Hudson
Who came up with a plan for the Iroquis?
Who is: Deganawida
Who was the leader of the American Army during the American Revolution?
Who is: George Washington
What are two ways that glaciers helped shape the Northeast?
What is: They scraped away soil and formed basins that filled with water and created lakes. They left behind poor, rocky soil
In 1500, why did only Native Americans live in the Northeast?
What is: European explorers and settlers had not arrived yet
How might a harbor and a port be related?
What is: Harbors are where ships can dock safely so ports might be harbors
What is a record of an event that was made by a person who was not there?
What is: A secondary source