Lesson 1
A body of water that allows people to travel
Waterway
In 1620, a group of Puritants called... arrived at Plymouth Rock, Massachusettes
Pilgrims
A time in which big innovations were occuring
The Industrial Revolution
A famous author with an award samed after her who lived in the Northeast
Louisa May Alcott
An international organization that promotes world peace, espect for human rights, and better living standardes.
United Nations
The major mountain range that is located in the Northeast region.
The Appalachian Mountians
William Penn established a colony of ....... in Pennsylvania.
Quakers
Materials that are not made by people
Raw materials
An island in New York Harbor where immigrants would land.
Ellis Island
To arrange
Negotiate
A large pit where people dig stones or other materials out of the earth
Quarry
To object
Protest
The first steamboat
The Clermont
A movement where people in the North fought agaisnt slavery
The Abolitionist Movement
A document that set out the UN's main purposes
Unitied Nations Charter
The Atlantic Coastal Plain
What occured after the colonists found out about the taxes on their tea
The Boston Tea Party
He created morse code in the 1830s.
Samuel Morse
The movement where women fought for the right to vote
Women's Suffrage Movement
What the letters D.C. stand for
District of Columbia
These planst were used by colonists to make tea during the Revolutionary War.
Sassafras and the New Jersey Tea
These two men rode around on horses to warn people that the British were coming.
Paul Revere and William Dawes
She created the flat-bottomed paperbag in 1868
Margaret E. Knight
In what century was public transportation created
1900s
He helped to plan and design Washington D.C.
Benjamin Banneker