GEOGRAPHY: THE NORTHEAST: NEW ENGLAND
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- the English separatists who founded Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, in 1620
- Pilgrims
- location of Harvard College
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- the Italian-born explorer who led the English expedition that explored the North American mainland in 1497
- John Cabot
- the man who wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation"
- William Bradford, second governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- the town or city that is the official seat of government of a state or nation
- capital
- the state named for the French words that mean "green mountain"
- Vermont
- the location of the first water-powered looms in 1814
- Peacedale, Rhode Island
- location of the Longfellow Mountains
- Maine
- the region of wooded hills in western Maine, and named for a region of south-central England
- Berkshire Hills
- the first colony to formally declare independence from Great Britain
- Rhode Island
- the most important town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Boston
- the world's second largest body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- the section of the Appalachian Mountains in northern New Hampshire
- White Mountains
- the broad coastal lowlands stretching from New England to the South
- Atlantic Coastal Plain
- the capital city of Massachusetts
- Boston
- the agreement proposed by Connecticut that resolved the constitutional debate of 1787
- the Great Compromise
- the explorer who claimed North America for England
- John Cabot
- the capital city of Maine
- Augusta
- the largest Indian group in the eastern United States; includes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca
- Iroquois League of Five Nations
- the first college in the colonies
- Harvard College in Massachusetts
- a river of the northeastern United States flowing c. 655 km from northern New Hampshire to its outlet on Long Island Sound
- Connecticut River
- the Puritan preacher from Connecticut, one of the first leaders of the Great Awakening
- Jonathan Edwards
- the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620
- the Mayflower
- the Ocean State
- Rhode Island
- the founder of Rhode Island
- Roger Williams
- the range of Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Quebec, Canada, through Vermont to western Maine
- Green Mountains
- an ancient administrative division of a large English parish
- township
- the river rising in northern Maine and flowing c. 225 km to the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada
- Aroostock River
- the first colony to offer complete religious freedom
- Rhode Island
- a narrow pass between mountains
- notch (in the South, a "gap")
- the Indian name that literally means "man-eater"
- Mohawk
- the building or complex of buildings in which a state legislature meets
- capitol
- the first state admitted to the Union after the thirteen colonies
- Vermont
- the Indian who helped the Pilgrims through their first year at Plymouth
- Squanto
- the Pine Tree state
- Maine
- the act that established the first public school system in America
- Ole' Deluder Satan Act
- to extend business activities into disparate fields
- diversify
- the capital city of Rhode Island
- Providence
- the Wampanoag Indian who introduced the Pilgrims to Chief Massasoit
- Samoset
- the capital city of Vermont
- Montpelier
- the Canadian provinces bordering Maine
- New Brunswick and Quebec
- the Puritans' colony in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- the first written agreement for self-government in America
- the Mayflower Compact
- the first written constitution in America
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- the capital city of New Hampshire
- Concord
- the Indians who shared the first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims
- Wampanoags
- the highest point in the Northeast
- Mt. Washington in New Hampshire
- the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of government
- constitution
- the land along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Seaboard
- in colonial times, districts in which property owners met to vote on community matters
- township
- the first state to have a textile mill
- Rhode Island
- a factory that produces cloth
- textile mill
- a mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area
- monadnock
- the elevation in a mountainous region above which trees do not grow
- timber line
- the range of the Appalachians in Vermont and New York
- Taconic Mountains
- all land above the timber line
- alpine zone
- the system composed of two legislative branches or chambers
- bicameral system
- the Pilgrims' colony in Massachusetts, founded in 1620
- Plymouth
- a region of the northeastern United States comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
- New England
- the part of the Northeast that is comprised of the three larger, northernmost New England states
- New England uplands
- the easternmost state
- Maine
- the manufacture of goods in large quantities, often using standardized designs and assembly-line techniques
- mass production
- the location of Yale University
- New Haven, Connecticut
- the capital city of Connecticut
- Hartford
- the highest point in the Taconic Range in Vermont
- Mt. Equinox
- the university known as Collegiate College until 1718
- Yale University
- the only New England state with no seacoast
- Vermont
- the New England state that was once part of Massachusetts
- Maine
- the group that wanted to "purify" the Church of England from what they considered to be unscriptural teachings and practices
- Puritans
- Maine-born writer, whose works include "The Song of Hiawatha"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
- the Wampanoag chief who made a peace treaty with the Pilgrims
- Massasoit
- the religious leader from Connecticut who presented the Great Compromise in 1787
- Roger Williams
- the longest river in New England
- Connecticut River