The Northeastern United States

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The Northeastern United States

• New England, and the Middle Atlantic regions

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Chapter 6 Preview (Map on page 117)Question 1

• Where are most cities located on the coast, in
  the mountains, or along interior lakes?
• Question 1 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewQuestion 2

• Which two states are entirely below 200 meters?
• Question 2 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewQuestion 3

• How many states have a named mountain range? What
  are they? (name the state and the mountain range)
• Question 3 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewQuestion 4

• What is the easternmost state? What Canadian
  provinces does it border?
• Question 4 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewQuestion 5

• Which two states touch the Great Lakes?
• Question 5 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewQuestion 6

• Which states appear to share the following
  rivers Connecticut River, Delaware River,
  Allegheny River?
• Question 6 Answer

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Chapter 6 PreviewBonus

• Where do green lowlands cut completely through
  the yellow and brown highlands? What cities lie
  in this path?
• Bonus answer

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Question 1 Answer

• On the coast

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Question 2 Answer

• Rhode Island, Delaware (in green)

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Question 3 Answer

• 5 states have a named mountain range
• MaineLongfellow Mountains
• New HampshireWhite Mountains
• VermontGreen Mountains
• New YorkAdirondack Mountains and Catskill
  Mountains
• PennsylvaniaPocono Mountains

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Question 4 Answer

• Maine
• New Brunswick and Quebec

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Question 5 Answer

• New York and Pennsylvania

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Question 6 Answer

• Connecticut RiverNew Hampshire, Vermont,
  Massachusetts
• Delaware RiverNew York, Pennsylvania, New
  Jersey, Delaware
• AlleghenyNew York, Pennsylvania

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Chapter 6 Bonus

• Part 1Hudson River and its tributaries
• Part 2New York, Albany, Rochester, Buffalo

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Overview

• United States
• 4th in physical size among nations of earth
• 3rd in population
• Richest and most prosperous in history
• Hard-working people
• Rich farmland
• Abundant resources
• Good climate

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New England Dialect

• One of most clearly marked dialects in US
• Easily recognizable
• Idea pronounced idear
• Car pronounced cah
• John Cabot
• First English explorer of New World
• Established Englands claim to east coast
• Described the fishing grounds
• Claims for England
• English became language of region
• Spread throughout nation

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Northeastern Region

• American Revolution
• King George III threatened to take away freedoms
• Restrict trade from American ports with other
  countries
• Closed town meetings and ruled by hand-picked
  governors
• Closed western areas to protestant New England
• Opened it to French Catholics of Canada
• Yankee businessmen, town leaders, and preachers
• Refused to bow to the king of England

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Capitalism and Revival

• Great Depression
• Encouraged Americans to end classic capitalism
• Government limits choices of business owners
• Regulations
• State and national government
• Taken control of local affairs
• Old churches are museums

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Ivy League Schools

• Early Puritans
• Precious gift
• Founders belief
• Everyone should be taught how to read the Bible
• No matter how poor
• Due to this
• America has one of highest literacy rates in
  world
• Ivy League colleges founded on Christian
  principles

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Ivy League Schools

• Harvard University
• Cambridge MA, (near Boston)
• Founded to train missionaries and preachers
• To serve in colonies
• First American college on North American
  continent
• 1636
• One of 8 Northeastern schools known as Ivy League
  schools
• Almost every state in Northeast has at least 1
• 2 exceptions are border statesMaryland and
  Delaware
• 2 exceptions are in upper New EnglandMaine,
  Vermont

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Ivy League Schools

• Names
• Harvard (1636), Cambridge, MA
• Yale (1701) New Haven, CN
• Pennsylvania (1740) Philadelphia, PA
• Princeton (1746) Princeton, NJ
• Columbia (1754) New York, NY
• Brown (1764) Providence, RI
• Dartmouth (1769) Hanover, NH
• Cornell (1853) Ithaca, NY

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Ivy League Schools

• Only school founded after Revolutionary War
• Cornell
• Ivy League formed 1956
• Schools competing since late 1800s
• Dartmouth still a college, rest are universities
• In relation to universities, the
  term college normally refers to a part of the
  university which does not have degree-awarding
  powers in itself. Degrees are always awarded
  by universities whereas colleges are institutions
  or organizations which prepare students for the
  degree.