A. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
B. Iowa, Louisiana, California, Maine, and Arizona.
C. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
A. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, and Massachusetts.
• Most of the original 13 colonies are in the Northeast. The states are Delaware (the first state), Pennsylvania (the second state), New Jersey (the third state), Connecticut (the fifth state), Massachusetts (the sixth state), Maryland (the seventh state), New Hampshire (the ninth state), New York (the eleventh state), and Rhode Island (the thirteenth state).
Purple= Northeast states
Northeast United States
Here are the states with their capitals.
• Augusta• Albany• Annapolis• Boston• Concord• Dover• Harrisburg• Hartford• Montpelier• Providence• Trenton
• Maine• New York• Maryland• Massachusetts• New Hampshire• Delaware• Pennsylvania• Connecticut• Vermont• Rhode Island• New Jersey
• New York is called the big apple because of the horse races around New York, New York. The prizes for winning were often called “apples”.
B. The big Apple
A. Lighthouses
• Maine is a state that has a very rugged seashore that makes it very dangerous for ships. Lighthouses help guide the way for safe passages.
B. The Appalachian Mountains
• The Appalachian Mountains run through every state in the eastern United States except Florida.
B. The Statue of Liberty
• The U.S.A got the Statue of Liberty as a gift from France. Before the twin towers were bombed you could go up into it. New York was afraid the Statue of Liberty would be bombed, and people would be hurt.
A. The Chrysler Building
B. The Sears Tower
C.The Empire State Building
D.The Division of Wildlife Center
C. The Empire State Building
• At 102 stories tall it was the tallest building in the world for 41 years. It was built in 1931.
D. Niagara Falls
• At 167 feet tall Niagara Falls is the largest waterfall in the U.S.A. It is on the border of New York and Ontario, Canada.
A. True
• The word “Chesapeake” comes from the Algoquian Indian root “Chesepiooc”, meaning “Great Shellfish Bay”. This bay is world famous for its oysters.
C. Long Island
• Long island is made of sand and rock left behind by glaciers in the last ice age. It is separated from New York by the East River.
A. Tourism
• Every big city in the Northeast gets a lot of tourists visiting historic places, landmarks, and having shopping experiences.
P.S. Sarah & Samantha on Wall St. enjoying a fresh pretzel.
A. New York to Albany to Washington D.C.
B. Boston to Baltimore to Washington D.C.
C.Boston to New York to Baltimore
D.Washington D.C. to Boston to Augusta
B. Boston to Baltimore to Washington D.C.
• The Megalopolis, nicknamed BosWash is a continuous urban area stretching from Washington, DC to Boston, Massachusetts. A majority of the population of the northeast live and work in the Megalopolis.
D. All of the above
• The headquarters for the largest banks and insurance companies in the world and the world’s largest stock exchanges are located in the BosWash Megalopolis cities. Most of the jobs in this area come from these companies being located here.
B. Trees
• The hardwood forests in the New England mountains change into beautiful reds, yellows, and golds in the fall season. The pretty colors attract tourists from all around the United States.
A. Bridgeport, Connecticut
B. New York, New York
C.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D.Manchester, New Hampshire
C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• On July 4, 1776 the U.S made the Declaration of Independence. It announced that America was a free country not controlled by the British. The liberty bell was rung during important events when the United States gained independence.
A. The Massachusetts tea party
B. The French tea party
C.The New York tea party
D.The Boston tea party
D. The Boston tea party
• The Boston tea party isn’t a tea party at all. It happened in 1773 when the colonists threw crates of English tea off of ships in Boston Harbor. They were protesting unfair taxes.
C. 1775-1783
• The revolutionary war happened because the U.S wanted to be freed from the British's grasp.
Although the Northeast is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes, it has a humid continental climate.
A. True• The Northeast has a wide
range of temperature between cold snowy Winters and warm Summers, which is like a continental climate. Most of the winds in the Northeast blow from the west and across land not from the Atlantic Ocean, which is to the east. Moist air from the Atlantic Ocean helps make the weather not as severe as the middle of the United States. Spring and Fall are mild with more rain in the Spring.
B. Bas Mitzvah and Bar Mitzvah
• These Jewish festivals celebrate a boy or girl becoming of age. Many people in the northeast are of Jewish faith.
What religion found in eastern Pennsylvania has members
that live a plain and simple life like it was still the 1700’s?
A. Amish
• The Amish people live a simple life like people did over 300 years ago. They don’t use electricity or cars and dress very simply. They believe that modern technology would separate them from God so they avoid it.
B. False• The answer is Ireland and
Italy. During the Industrial Revolution of the 1800’s in the Northeast, many Irish and Italian people immigrated to the United States looking for a better life. Most of the descendants of these immigrants still live in the Northeast. They celebrate their Irish heritage on St Patrick’s Day in March and their Italian heritage on Columbus Day in October.
D. All of the above• Maine is the main producer
of blueberries and lobster. Vermont’s maple forests produce the most maple syrup. Baked beans became popular in the 1700’s when Boston had a lot of molasses, which was a main ingredient in baked beans. At the time Boston made rum from sugarcanes imported from the Caribbean and made molasses from the left over sugarcanes.
B. Catholic• More people in the
Northeast are of Catholic faith than any other region. Rhode Island has more Catholics than any other state with them 63% of all the people there. Most of the immigrants that came to the Northeast were from Europe and Latin America and catholic is the main religion in those areas.
Bibliography
• http://.wikipedia.org.
• http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/maps/thematic/appalachian-trail-map.jpg
• Our Fifty States by: Mark H. Bockenhauer and Stephen F. Cunha
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