Geography
Early Peoples
From Colonies to a Nation
Growth
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?
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?
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"?
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?
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