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Test #6
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28
History
3rd Grade
07/08/2011

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Term
nickname for Vermont
Definition
"the Green Mountain State"
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nickname for Massachusetts
Definition
"the Bay State"
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harbor
Definition
a safe place for ships to dock
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major crop in the Southeast
Definition
cotton and tobacco
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first permanent English settlement
Definition
Jamestown, VA
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first group of people to come and settle in Massachusetts
Definition
Separatists from England
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surveyor
Definition
a person who measures and helps divide land
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natural boundary between Iowa and Nebraska
Definition
Missouri River
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Sante Fe, New Mexico
Definition
oldest city in the United States
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Coronado
Definition
Spanish explorer who was looking for "The Seven Cities of Gold"
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What stopped settlers from going into the West?
Definition
The Rocky Mountains
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Sutter's Creek
Definition
first place they found gold
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Atlantic Ocean
Definition
ocean next to the Northeast and Southeast region
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2 territories in the Midwest
Definition
Louisiana Territory and the Northwest Territory
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bay
Definition
body of water that is nearly circled by land but has a wide opening to the sea
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irrigation
Definition
farming depends on this
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How did the Spanish explorers change the Southwest?
Definition
brought horses, brought their own kind of food, brought a new language
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stampede
Definition
cattle run wildly in a herd
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west is made up of two regions
Definition
Rocky Mountain region and the Pacific region
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largest state
Definition
Alaska
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50th state
Definition
Hawaii
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Northeast Region
Definition
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
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Southeast
Definition
Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida
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Midwest
Definition
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
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Southwest
Definition
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
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Rocky Mountain region
Definition
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado
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Pacific region
Definition
California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii
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the Great Lakes
Definition
Michigan
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