The Northeast

The largest city in New England is

• Philadelphia

• Boston

• Portland

• Providence

The Erie Canal connects the Great Lakes to the

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

• St. Lawrence Seaway

• Mississippi River

Which of these shaped many of the Northeast's physical features?

• basins

• marble

• glaciers

• granite

Where did most early European settlers in the Northeast come from?

• Holland

• Canada

• England

• France

Most People in New England work in which industry?

• manufacturing industry

• service industry

• farming

• fishing

Pollution is

• the spreading of urban areas

• the growth of cities

• the freedom to govern oneself

• anything that makes a natural resource dirty

A colonist is ___

• an early hunter

• an early settler

• a settlement that is ruled by a faraway government.

• a settlement in the Americas

Who ruled the colonist before the American Revolution?

• France

• Spain

• Britain

• Native Americans

What are the three crops that farmers grow in the Northeast?

• Strawberries, apples and oranges

• blueberries, banana, and apples

• potatoes, cranberries, blueberries

• potatoes, banana, cranberries

Why did the Iroquois tribes form a confederation?

• to fight with each other

• for the union

• to gather all the Native Americans

• to stop fighting with each other