Geography
Early Peoples
From Colonies to a Nation
Growth
New England States
Middle Atlantic States & Northeast Today
100
How many total states make up the region?
What is 10?
100
Provide an example of the life of early peoples changing with the seasons.
What is in summer there was farming and gathering near villages, and in the winter indoor work such as weaving and making tools was completed?
100
Where was the Declaration of Independence signed, and on what date?
Where is Philadelphia and July 4, 1776?
100
There was a surge of immigration in the late 1800s - early 1900s. To where did many immigrants enter the country, and into what jobs did they find themselves in?
What is Ellis Island, and many immigrants worked in factories and construction?
100
Fishing and shipping are important to most states in New England, except for one. Which state does not have a coastline?
What is Vermont?
100
What New York city hosted the Winter Olympics twice, in 1932 and in 1980?
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In what state do Amish and Mennonite communities live, in what is known as "Dutch Country"?
Where is Lake Placid?
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Where is Pennsylvania?
200
What minerals are particularly important in the region?
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What state is known as the granite state?
What are coal and granite?
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What is New Hampshire?
200
Provide the name of at least 3 Native American groups that called the region home?
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What were the 2 main language groups that the tribes fell under?
What is Penobscot, Wampanoag, Massachuset, Iroquois, Erie, and Delaware?
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What are Iroquoian and Algonquian?
200
When did Europeans begin settling in the Northeast, and for what purposes?
What is the 1600s; and they came for religious freedom, land, and money?
200
In what basic (yet major) ways did factory growth of the 1830s impact daily life?
What is longer hours, but steady pay?
200
Which two countries did many immigrants arrive from between the late 1800s and mid-1900s? Where are many recent immigrants arriving from?
What is Ireland and Italy, and more recently Somalia?
200
What FOUR states make up the Middle Atlantic states in the Northeast?
What are Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania?
300
What is the tallest mountain the region? Picture here. 
What is Mount Washington?
300
What is the name of this large pile made up of the hard outer remains of sea animals that people collected, ate, and left behind in the same place over many, many years; helping archaeologists understand long-term coastal living of Native American tribes?
What is a shell midden?
300
What was the rallying cry used by American colonists when British laws became too restrictive?
What is "no taxation without representation"?
300
What was the chronological order of changes in transportation during the 1800s?
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Who invented the steamboat and in what year was it launched?
What is roads (rough and slow), followed by river travel and the invention of the steamboat, and ending with the linking of major cities by railroads?
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Who was Robert Fulton, launching the steamboat in 1807?
300
Many towns in New England utilize a form of direct democracy. What does this mean?
What is citizens vote on local decisions?
300
What is the significance of Patriot's Day? What major event is held that day in Boston?
What is that it marks the first battles of the American Revolution? What is the Boston Marathon?
400
What was the impact of the Ice Age on the region?
What is glaciers covered most of the Northeast at one point, shaping mountains and valleys, and forming many lakes; also, leaving rocks behind?
400
What types of structures did the Algonquian people live in? What about the Iroquois?
What is a wigwam (Algonquian) and longhouse (Iroquois)?
400
British colonies relied upon trade to help the colonies grow, what types of goods die they harvest and produce? Must provide the 4 examples outlined in your notes.
What is grain, lumber, furs, and fish?
400
What are the SIX New England states?
What is Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont?
400
What two current female Supreme Court Justices are from the region?
Who is Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan?
*Ketanji Brown Jackson is also technically from the region (Washington D.C.) as was Ruth Bader Ginsburg (New York; pictured in the middle, above).
500
In what year was the Iroquois Confederacy formed, by whom, and for what purpose?
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What 5 nations made up the Iroquois Confederacy?
What is 1550, by Deganawida and Hiawatha, to promote peace?
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What are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and the Seneca?
500
Provide the dates for the following events (hint: they are in chronological order).
1) Giovanni Verrazzano sailed the Northeast coast
2) Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River area
3) Boston Tea Party Protest
4) American Revolution Begins
5) American Revolution Officially Ends
What is...
1) 1524
2) 1609
3) 1773
4) 1775
5) 1783
500
From the 1800s until the late 1900s, New England was a major manufacturing center. What areas of growth make up its modern economy?
What is technology, healthcare, education, and tourism?
500
Random Facts:
1) In what year did Maine become a state?
2) In what year was One World Trade Center opened?
3) What were the names of two major hurricanes that caused major damage to the region? They occurred in 2011 and 2012.
4) What is the largest park in the contiguous United States?
5) The game Monopoly is based upon what city?
What is...
1) 1820?
2) 2014?
3) Irene & Sandy?
4) Adirondack Park?
5) Atlantic City?