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100
This is known as the "Granite State"
New Hampshire
100
More than half our nation's crop of this is grown in Massachusetts
cranberries
100
They were already living here before any Europens arrived in America
Native Americans
100
These were built along rivers because the rushing water was used to power machines
factories
100
A huge, slow-moving mass of ice
Glacier
200
This state has a unique pink granite.
Massachusetts
200
We get maple syrup from this tree
maple trees
200
They were the first Europeans to arrive in America
Pilgrims
200
A person who cuts down trees is a
logger
200
a settlement started by people who leave their own country to live in another land
colony
300
This state supplies most of the United States lobster
Maine
300
This type of soil covers most of New England
rocky soil
300
Like the Pilgrims, theses people came to American for religious reasons
Puritans
300
The invention of this led to the industrial revolution.
machines
300
an open pit in the ground from which stone is mined
Quarry
400
Cheese is a major product of this state
Vermont
400
These are some of the resources that the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims to use to survive
corn, fish, hunting, farming, gathered berries
400
The name of the ship that the Pilgrims traveled to America on
The Mayflower
400
How is the ocean important to New England Economy?
The colonists traded goods across the ocean. They harvested fish. Whaling was a big industry.
400
a point of land reaching out into the ocean
Cape
500
This mountain range can be found in New England
The Appalachians
500
This extremely durable rock can withstand exposure to rain and is a huge resource in New England
Granite
500
The name of the colony that the Pilgrims started
Plymouth Colony
500
An economy in which factories and machines manufacture most of the goods
industrial economy
500
a place where ships can dock safely
harbor
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