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Nifty Fifty Northeast History and Culture

Natural Boundaries of the Northeast

Question: Name four Natural Boundaries of New York state.
Answer: Lake Champlain, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Delaware River

Question: What forms the Natural Boundary between the states of Vermont and New Hampshire?
Answer: Connecticut River

Question: Name the body of water that forms a Natural Boundary between Connecticut and New York.
Answer: Long Island Sound

Question: The Delaware River forms a Natural Boundary between which states?
Answer: Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

Question: The Potomac River forms a Natural Boundary between Maryland and which Southeast state?
Answer: Virginia

Natural Boundaries of the Northeast - The Regions

Question: Using your map, create a Natural Boundary question for the class to answer:
Answer: What river runs through the Green and White Mountains?

Question: Where can a plentiful amount of grapes be found in the Northeast?
Answer: A plentiful amount of grapes can be found in New York.

Question: Where can you find many cranberry farms in the Northeast?
Answer: You can find many cranberry farms in Massachusetts.

Question: What is a bog?
Answer: A bog is an area of soft, wet, spongy ground.

Question: What is sap?
Answer: Sap is the liquid that circulates in a plant carrying food and water.

The Region's Resources

Question: How is sap made into maple syrup?
Answer: Holes are drilled in the tree and a spout id put in. The sap, when it comes out is taken to the sugar house. To get maple syrup, workers boil the sap. As it boils, water evaporates and pure maple syrup is left.

Question: How did the Chesapeake Bay its name?
Answer: The Chesapeake Bay got its name from the Native American Chesepiook.

Question: The Chesapeake Bay is home to many types of seafood - crabs, oysters, and clams, for example. Why is the Chesapeake Bay's seafood so important to the people who live there?
Answer: The Chesapeake Bay's is so important to the people who live there because many families there earn their living harvesting the sea.

Question: How is the Chesapeake Bay becoming polluted? 
Answer: It is becoming polluted because factories dumping wastes.

Question: Name two other bays in the Northeast region.
Answer: Massachusetts Bay and Delaware Bay

The Narrangansett People

Question: What did the Narrangansett base their society on?
Answer: The Narrangansett based their society on cooperation.

Question: What was an example of how the Narrangansett cooperated with each other?
Answer: The Narrangansett cooperated with each other by clearing fields just for one family.

Question: What was the Narrangansett home called? What was it made of?
Answer: The Narrangansett home was called a wigwam. It is made of wooden poles and bark.

Question: What were their rulers called?
Answer: The Narrangansett rulers were called Sachems.

Question: Who was the English settler that visited the Grand Sachem, Canonicus?
Answer: Roger Williams was the English settler that visited the Grand Sachem, Canonicus.

The Narrangansett People - The Beautiful

Question: What kind of relationship did Roger Williams have with the Narrangansett? What did he learn from them?
Answer: Roger Williams had a friendly relationship with the Narrangansett. He learned their language from them.

Question: Where do the Narrangansett live today?
Answer: Some Narrangansett lived in a reservation in Rhode Island. Others live somewhere in the Northeast.

Question: What are names of some of the other Northeastern Native American tribes?
Answer: Some of the other Northeastern Native American Tribes name are: The Iroquois Confederacy, The Seneca, the Mohawck, the Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga.

Question: What is a glacier?
Answer: A glacier is a huge sheet of slow moving ice that covers land.

Question: How were the Great Lakes and Niagara formed?
Answer: About twelve thousand years ago when the ice began to melt it carved out the Great Lakes and Niagara Gorge.