Vocabulary
Vocabulary and more
Need to know Facts
More Facts and an Essay
One essay and a little map review
100
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
a nonliving material that is found in the earth
What is mineral?
100
the continent millions of immigrants came to America from in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is Europe?
100
They guide ships at sea during the night
What are lighthouses?
100
State furtherest North in the Northeast Region
What is Maine?
200
a workers' group that tries to get better pay and working conditions
What is labor union?
200
goods that are sent to other countries for sale
What is export?
200
this important product from the Northeast is made from the sap
What is maple syrup?
200
This fruit is commonly grown in bogs in Massachusetts and New Jersey
What are cranberries?
200
The nation's capital
What is Washington, D.C.?
300
a place where stone is dug, cut, or blasted out of the earth
What is quarry?
300
a huge sheet of ice
What is glacier?
300
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed here
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
300
Some Native American groups formed this to keep settlers from Europe off of their lands
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
300
The ocean that borders the Northeast Region
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
when people catch fish faster than natural processes can replace them
What is overfishing?
400
the port city of the Northeast that most of the immigrants to the U.S. came through in the 1800s
What is New York City?
400
a problem caused by industrial growth in the Northeast
What is cities grew so fast there wasn't enough housing, spread of diseases or too much pollution?
400
A reason the colonists felt that the laws British leaders had passed were unfair
What is the colonists had not been allowed to vote on the laws?
400
This state and its capital are alliterated
What is Delaware (Dover)?
500
a term for clothing factories that are crowded, dirty, and unsafe
What is a sweatshop?
500
this is a natural resource in the Northeast used for fuel
What is coal?
500
People that run ski lifts work in this industry
What is the tourism industry?
500
Three things immigrants to the United States could expect when they arrived at Ellis Island in New York Harbor?
What are medical and records inspections, crowds of people and the Statue of Liberty?
500
Reason the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire affected the movement for labor reform
What is people wanted better working conditions?
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