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The Land
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Birthplace of the Nation
Growth and Change
Northeast Today
100
Water that separates a mainland and an island
What is a sound?
100
This is when people catch fish faster than natural processes can replace them.
What is overfishing?
100
This is the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
This is a document that gives someone the right to make and sell an invention.
What is a patent?
100
In addition to people driving their own cars, this is a characteristic of a rural area.
What is "more farms"?
200
8 of the 11 states in the Northeast region are this.
What is the smallest states in the country?
200
This is why coal is such an important natural resource in the Northeast.
What is "it can be used as a fuel"?
200
This is how some Native American groups were able to keep settlers from Europe off of their lands.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
200
This is one of the problems that was created by industrial growth in the Northeast.
What is "cities grew so fast that there was not enough housing"?
200
In addition to people being more likely to using public transportation systems, this is a characteristic of urban areas.
What is "there are more people"?
300
This is the purpose of lighthouses along the Atlantic coast.
What is they guide ships at sea during the night?
300
This is how much of the electricity used in the state of New York is provided.
What is "by a hydroelectric plant on the Niagara River"?
300
This is why many colonists felt that the laws British leaders had passed were unfair.
What is "the colonists had not been allowed to vote on the laws"?
300
This caused many people to work together to reform working conditions.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
300
After World War II the demand for this began to drop.
What is steel?
400
This is the highest mountain peak in the Northeast region.
What is Mt. Washington?
400
This is the way heavy snows in Vermont can be considered a resource.
What is "it attracts tourists to ski"?
400
This is how Frederick Douglass contributed to the abolitionist movement.
What is "he traveled and spoke about what life was like for a slave"?
400
This is what happened if an immigrant did not pass the health checks.
What was "sent back to their home countries"?
400
After World War II laws were passed in Pittsburgh to do this.
What is clean up the air?
500
This is the largest lake of the Northeast that is the furthest north.
What is Lake Champlain?
500
The tourism industry includes these businesses.
What are resorts, hotels, and restaurants?
500
Frederick Douglass and this person spoke about being a slave.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
500
In addition of having their eyes and throats checked to make sure they were healthy, immigrants had to have this checked.
What is identification and other records?
500
Today the city's steel industry is gone and these are important industries.
What are high-tech industries?