Vocabulary
A large area of seawater that separates a mainland from an island.
What is a sound?
Its capital is Hartford.
What is Connecticut?
The highest peak in the Northeast Region
What is Mount Washington?
Colonists felt British laws passed were unfair due to this reason
What is being unable to vote on laws?
In these areas, most people live in apartments
What are urban areas?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
The capital of Massachusetts.
What is Boston?
This natural resource found in the Northeast is used a fuel.
What is coal?
By forming groups with other tribes, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, the Native Americans were able to do this
What is keep European settlers off their lands?
The heavy snow in Vermont that attracts tourists to ski is considered this
What is a resource?
When people catch fish faster than natural processes can replace them.
What is overfishing?
Trenton is its capital.
What is New Jersey?
This large body of water is the furthest North of the Northeast Region
What is Lake Ontario?
Labor unions were formed due to this tragic event
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Once filled with steel factories, this city is now home to high-tech industries, including businesses that make computer software, robots, and medical equipment
What is Pittsburgh?
A government document that protects the ownership of a new idea or invention.
What is a patent?
Maryland's capital.
What is Annapolis?
This body of water provides much of the electricity used in the state of New York
What is the Niagra River?
This lead to many problems in the Northeast including poorly built, unsafe housing for immigrants coming into the cities.
What is industrial growth?
At Ellis Island in New York Harbor, immigrants to the United States could expect these
What are identification, record, and health checks?
The dome-shaped home built by the Wampanoag people.
What is a wetu?
The capital of Maine.
What is Augusta?
The other Great Lake found in the Northeast Region
What is Lake Erie?
These historical figures contributed to the abolitionist movement by traveling and speaking about what life was like as a slave
Who were Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth?
Pennsylvania, a colony founded by William Penn, was formed so settlers could have this
What is religious freedom?