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History Chapter 4
Question | Answer |
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4th largest country in the world | U.S.A. |
Most prominent landform in eastern North America, extending 1,500 miles from Canada to Alabama | Appalachian Mountains |
Famous narrow passageway between mountains that pioneers tood on their way west | Cumberland Gap |
Largest known underground cave system in the world | Mammoth Cave |
Area that slopes from eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Coastal Plain; most of the land is hilly and rolling | Piedmont Plateau |
World's 2nd largest ocean | Atlantic |
Atlantic Ocean is the _________________ ocean. | saltiest |
Atlantic Ocean is the most important ocean for ____________. | commerce |
Atlantic Ocean once contained the major ________ __________ of the world. | fishing grounds |
Atlantic Ocean has many varieties of ____________ and other useful ______ __________ | shellfish; sea creatures |
In the deep ocean, many ________________ and _____________ known fish live | unusual; little |
beads made from quahog shells strung together and used as gifts | wampum |
bird chosen to be the U.S. national bird | Bald Eagle |
Early but very advanced Indian civilization that built large burial mounds | Hopewell Indians |
Five tribes of this Indian group formed the league of Five Nations | Iriquois |
type of house built by the tribes of the League of Five Nations | longhouse |
Easternmost tribe of the Five Nations whose name means "man-eaters" | Mohawk |
Indian tribe name that means "southerner" | Shawnee |
Group of Indians who lived in the Everglades | Seminole |
Low lying, marshy area of tall grasses and swamps, in southern Florida, is known as the home of the Seminole | Everglades |
American holiday associated with the Wampanoags | Thanksgiving |
Highly civilized Indian tribe that kept a pictorial chronicle (record) of their history and traditions | Delaware |
"Apostle to the Indians"; first Bible printed in American was his translation of an Indian language | John Eliot |
Swedish Lutheran missionary who translated some of Martin Luther's writing into the Delaware language | John Companius |
Founder of Rhode Island and America's first Baptist church | Roger Williams |
Man who preached to the Indians with the help of his interpreter and died at age 29 | David Brainerd |
Translated the preaching of David Brainerd | Tattamy |
Mohawk Chief who translated Scripture into his people's language | Joseph Brant |
Shawnee chief who fought to keep all white men out of Indian territory | Tecumseh |
Inventor of the written language of the Cherokees | Sequoya |