Northern Pass
Chapter 4 Review
Persuasive Letters
Current Events
People and Stuff
100

The number of years (approximately) that NH residents have been fighting against Northern Pass.

8-10 years

100

What is the definition of a tenement?

Crowded, poorly built apartment buildings

100

Where does the "claim/thesis" belong in your persuasive writing?

The last sentence of the introductory paragraph

100

What scandal is currently unfolding that has several celebrities making headlines?

College admissions

100

Entrepreneur of the steel industry during the 1870s

Andrew Carnegie

200

Illness that may or may not be linked to living too close to electromagnetic power lines.

Leukemia

200

The most important work of the Freedmen's Bureau:

To provide education

200

Every new idea needs to have its own new ________.

Paragraph

200

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

Founder of Facebook

200

Spoke these words - "The war is over.  The rebels are our countrymen again."

Ulysses S. Grant

300

NH Governor in support of Northern Pass

Governor Sununu

300

A ____________ protects voters privacy, but has not always existed.

Secret ballot

300

If your pre-writing organizer had 2 great, solid ideas, how many paragraphs TOTAL would your letter end up having?

4 - Introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and 1 conclusion

300

What South American country is experiencing political unrest and refusing American aid (help) despite the suffering of its people?

Venezuela

300

Oil industry entrepreneur who created Standard Oil

John D. Rockefeller 

400

NH utility company responsible for the Northern Pass project 

Eversource

400

Racist rules put in place to prevent some Americans from voting

Jim Crow Laws 

400

What must be included at the end of your letter (after your conclusion)?

Signature

400

On Saturday, the Celtics beat the ___________ 

129 - 120.

The Atlanta Hawks

400

Our guest speaker from the NH Forest Society:

Jack Savage

500

I.B.E.W. stands for this:

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

500

Name of a person who sets up and runs a business

Entrepreneur

500

What is wrong with the following:

March 18 2019

It is missing a comma after the 18

500

Occurred in central New Hampshire last Thursday  morning as a "2.7"

Earthquake

500

One of the most important inventors and industrial leaders of the U.S.  He had a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey:  

Thomas Alva Edison

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