Chapter 4 & 5 - The Northeast

Question 1

a protected area of water where ships can dock safely

Answer 1

harbor

Question 2

a huge, slow-moving mass of ice

Answer 2

glacier

Question 3

a snowstorm driven by strong, freezing winds

Answer 3

blizzard

Question 4

a large, open pit cut into the ground, from which stone is mined

Answer 4

quarry

Question 5

a loosely united group of governments working together

Answer 5

confederation

Question 6

a settlement that is ruled by a faraway government

Answer 6

colony

Question 7

a person who lives in a colony

Answer 7

colonist

Question 8

a trading center where ships are loaded and unloaded

Answer 8

port

Question 9

freedom

Answer 9

independence

Question 10

an official statement

Answer 10

declaration

Question 11

a major, sudden change in government or in people’s lives

Answer 11

revolution

Question 12

a chart that records specific events over a period of time

Answer 12

time line

Question 13

a period of ten years

Answer 13

decade

Question 14

a period of 100 years

Answer 14

century

Question 15

a body of water that boats can use

Answer 15

waterway

Question 16

deep and wide enough for ships to use

Answer 16

navigable

Question 17

a waterway dug across land

Answer 17

canal

Question 18

a period in which new sources of power were used to replace machines powered by hand, allowing people to make more goods faster

Answer 18

Industrial Revolution

Question 19

a factory in which fibers such as cotton and wool are woven into textiles, or cloth

Answer 19

textile mill

Question 20

the growth of cities

Answer 20

urban growth

Question 21

a large city together with nearby cities and suburbs

Answer 21

metropolitan area

Question 22

a huge urban region formed when two or more metropolitan areas grow together

Answer 22

megalopolis

Question 23

a record made by people who took part in or saw an event

Answer 23

primary source

Question 24

a record of an event that was made by people who were not there

Answer 24

secondary source

Question 25

to work at one kind of job and learn to do it well

Answer 25

specialize

Question 26

a person who is running for office in an election

Answer 26

candidate

Question 27

a series of actions, such as running advertisements on television, displaying signs, making speeches, and talking with voters, taken with the goal of getting someone elected to office

Answer 27

campaign

Question 28

a sheet of paper or some other method used to mark a secret vote

Answer 28

ballot

Question 29

a person who offers to do something without pay

Answer 29

volunteer

Question 30

a very tall steel-framed building

Answer 30

skyscraper

Question 31

to travel back and forth between work and home

Answer 31

commute

Question 32

the outward spread of urban areas

Answer 32

urban sprawl

Question 33

anything that makes a natural resource dirty or unsafe to use

Answer 33

pollution

Question 34

the number of people who live in an area of a certain size

Answer 34

population density