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

Question: How did the Chesapeake Bay get it's name?
Answer: Native American word Chesapiook which means, "Great Shellfish Bay

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

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

Question: How did the Chesapeake Bay become polluted?
Answer: Factories dump waste.

The Narrangansett

Question: what was the Narrangansett home called?
Answer: Wigwam

Question: What were their rulers called?
Answer: Sachems

Question: What was the name of the English settler who visited Canonicus?
Answer: Roger Williams

Question: Where do the Narrangansett live today?
Answer: Canada and Rhode Island

Question: Name some Northeast Native American tribes.
Answer: Seneca, Mohawk and Oneida

NE Cities Grow And Change

Question: What is a commerce?
Answer: A commerce is a place where millions of people come to work, to shop and to enjoy themselves.

Question: What is a merchant?
Answer: A merchant is a shop in port cities to sell imported goods.

Question: Why was Pittsburgh, PA important to trade and the shipping goods?
Answer: Where three major rivers meet to ship and trade.

Question: What is a export?
Answer: A item sent from one country to be sold in another country.

Question: Name the three largest cities in the early history.
Answer: New York City, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

NE Landforms

Question: What is a glacier?
Answer: A sheet of ice.

Question: What is hydroelectricity?
Answer: Electricity produced by water.

Question: Where are the Green Mountains and the White Mountains located?
Answer: Vermont and New Hampshire.

Question: How were the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls formed?
Answer: Glaciers.

Question: Where does the Appalachian Mountains start and end?
Answer: Starts in Canada and ends in Alabama.

Important People

Question: William Lloyd Garrison
Answer: He fought against slavery.

Question: Seneca Falls, New York
Answer: Women's rights convention.

Question: Susan B. Anthony
Answer: Leader of women's rights convention.

Question: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
Answer: Told the life of a slave and fought against slavery.

Question: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Answer: Organized first women's rights convention.