Northeast Region Vocabulary

Someone who travels for pleasure

• tourist

• suffrage

• sachem

• wetu

A country area

• urban

• suburban

• rural

• wetu

When people catch fish faster than natural processes can replace them

• population density

• overfishing

• sachem

• suffrage

A government document that protects the ownership of a new idea or invention

• population density

• peninsula

• patent

• suffrage

The right to vote

• population density

• peninsula

• patent

• suffrage

A group of workers, usually in the same type of job, who have joined together to demand better wages and working conditions.

• population density

• labor union

• patent

• suffrage

Land surrounded by water on three sides

• population density

• sound

• patent

• peninsula

A ruler or leader among some Native American groups

• sachem

• wetu

• tourist

• peninsula

A measure of how many people, on average, live on each square mile of land in a certain area.

• overfishing

• population density

• tourist

• rural

An area of soft, wet spongy ground where moss grows.

• bog

• quarry

• wetu

• rural