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Colonies 1
Colonies 2
Transportation
States/Capitals
Final Jeopardy
100
This was one of the first Europeans to explore the Middle Atlantic region.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
New York City is at the mouth of this river.
What is the Hudson River?
100
This is a trading center where ships are loaded and unloaded.
What is a port?
100
Name the capital of Maine.
What is Augusta?
100
These are four major forms of transportation that helped the Middle Atlantic states grow and connect.
What are canals, seaways, highways, airplanes, subways, railroads with high speed trains
200
This is another nickname for the Middle Atlantic states.
What is the Breadbasket Colonies?
200
This term means to travel back and forth.
What is commute?
200
This is a contest among companies to get the most customers or sell the most products.
What is competition?
200
Name the capital of New York.
What is Albany?
300
This is a reason why immigrants moved to the Middle Atlantic Colonies during the 1800-1900s.
What are factory jobs?
300
This is a large city with suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area?
300
This means it is deep and wide enough for ships to use.
What is navigable?
300
Name the capital of Delaware.
What is Dover?
400
This is the name for a loosely united group of governments working together.
What is a confederation?
400
This are reasons the colonies wanted to declare independence from Britain.
What are because Britain made trading laws, gave lots of taxes and colonists had no representation?
400
This canal connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
Name the capital of New Jersey.
What is Trenton?
500
This is what the Middle Atlantic colonies are like today.
What is welcoming of all religions, large cities located on waterways, and a mix of people from different countries?
500
This is what the Declaration of Independence says.
What is that all people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
500
These resources are needed to produce steel.
What are iron, limestone and coal?
500
Name the capital of Pennsylvania.
What is Harrisburg?