EXPLORING THE NORTHEAST

Who opened the first electric power plant?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Hudson

• Homer Simpson

The capital of New Jersey is ?

• Hartford

• Boston

• Trenton

• Monpelier

What is the name of the mountain range in the Northeast?

• Rocky Mountains

• Himalayan Mountains

• Applachian Mountains

Which Northeast city had the largest immigration center in the early 1900's?

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Albany, New York

• Trenton, New Jersey

• New York, New York

Changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution:

• Steam Engines replaced water powered engines

• Electric power plants provided electricity

• New inventions such as the telephone and light bulb

• All of the above

Cities saw urban growth because

• immigrants arrived in the US

• people stayed to work in factories

• farming became a way of life

• Both A and B

An English explorer of the Northeast

• Henry Hudson

• Katherine Lee Bates

• Thomas Jefferson

• Christopher Columbus

A __________________________ is a huge, slow-moving mass of ice.

• boulder

• glacier

• Great Lakes

At times, the Northeast’s weather can be extreme, _______________________ or snowstorms with strong winds, sometimes occur.

• tornados

• hurricane

• blizzards

In most Native American villages in the Northeast, people shared the ________________________ and its ________________________.

 

• resources/ toys

• resources/ toys

• land / resources