Northeast Vocabulary
the top of a mountain
What is a peak?
The Northeast today includes
What is mountains and coastal harbors?
In a democracy, leaders are chosen by
What is the people?
On the Erie Canal, boats can travel from Lake Erie all the way to
What is New York City?
the war in which the American colonies won independence from Great Britain
What is The American Revolution?
direction would you go if you were to travel from the state capital of Connecticut to the state capital of Vermont
What is northwest?
This gave our nation its freedom
What is the American Revolution?
This phrase best describes New York City
What is city of skyscrapers?
a ditch dug across land that often connects two waterways
What is a canal?
state capitals located very near bodies of water, including rivers, bays, lakes, and oceans
What are Annapolis, Harrisburg, Albany, Hartford, Providence, and Boston?
This document protects your right to say what you think
What is the Constitution?
Mass production is a way of
What is making large quantities of the same product?
a water elevator used to raise and lower boats
What is a lock?
two states that do not have Atlantic fishing industries
What are Vermont and Pennsylvania?
This document declared the colonies breaking free from the King of England
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The branch of government makes laws
What is Congress?
a very tall building
What is a skyscraper?
two states that do not touch the Atlantic Ocean
What are Vermont and Pennsylvania?
place where first battle of American Revolution was
What is outside of Boston?
Number of locks on the Erie Canal
What are 83?