G5-C9-The Middle Colonies
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- Chapter 9
- The Middle Colonies
- Someone who leaves one country to come and live in another is __________.
- an immigrant
- Which phrase describes the geography of New Jersey and Delaware?
- "flat or gently rolling"
- Benjamin Franklin organized our nation's first __________.
- fire department
- The line that divides the Piedmont and the coastal plain is called __________.
- Fall Line
- The elevation of the Adirondack Mountains ranges from ___________.
- 800 to 6,000 feet
- A lawmaking body is known as __________.
- an assembly
- The edge of settlement, beyond which was an area thought of as wilderness, was called the __________.
- frontier
- Benjamin Franklin led the effort to have Philadelphia's streets __________.
- paved
- The Quakers refused to serve in the army or navy because they __________.
- did not believe in killing
- The people of the Middle Colonies used the rapids at the Fall Line to their advantage by __________.
- building water-powered sawmills
- The Allegheny Plateau crosses New York and __________.
- Pennsylvania
- Name a mountain range located west of the Hudson River.
- the Catskill Mountains
- Name a city located on the Allegheny Plateau.
- Elmira
- The Middle Colonies of New York and Pennsylvania stretch across __________.
- the Appalachian Mountains
- Which area of New York is at the lowest elevation?
- the Hudson River Valley
- A book filled with facts about many subjects is called __________.
- an almanac
- The trial of John Peter Zenger was important because it established __________
- freedom of the press
- The Adirondack Mountains are in the __________ corner of New York.
- northeastern
- The Pennsylvania Dutch came to the Middle Colonies from which country?
- Germany
- About how many miles is it from Elmira to Rochester?
- 75
- To make the city of Philadelphia safer, Benjamin Franklin fought for __________.
- street lights
- Who started the first lending library in the English colonies?
- Benjamin Franklin
- What is one of the primary beliefs of the Quakers?
- All people are equal.
- William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a __________.
- holy experiment
- The belief that people did not need preachers or churches in order to understand God came from the __________.
- Quakers
- What caused the Scots-Irish to move west into the Appalachian Mountains?
- The best farmland had been taken.
- What was the occupation of most of the colonists in the Middle Colonies?
- farmer