Eastern Topographic Features

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Elsener US History 1 Eastern Topographic Features

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• The Native Americans of this Island just off the coast of New York were members of the Algonquin tribe and were broken into thirteen communities. The first Europeans to set foot on the island were Henry Hudson and his crew in 1609. They were looking for a shortcut to India and didn't find one, so they didn't stay.

Long Island, NY

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• Ethan Allen spent a considerable portion of his life in the effort to achieve independence for what is now Vermont, commanding (1770-1775) an irregular force called the _______ Mountain Boys, so named in defiance of New York’s efforts to control the land. His efforts would help create the state of Vermont. These mountains are in Vermont.

Green Mountains

3• This mountain range is located in

the northeastern part of New York. The mountains are often included by geographers in the Appalachian Mountains, but are geologically more similar to the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. They are bordered on the east by Lake Champlain and Lake George, which separate them from the Green Mountains in Vermont.

Adirondack Mountains

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• This mountain range covers about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine. Part of the Appalachian Mountains, they are considered the most rugged mountains in New England.

White Mountains

5• In the mid-1700s European explorers

and settlers began arriving in these mountains that are in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. By 1805, the Cherokee had ceded control of these great mountains to the U.S. government. Although much of the tribe was forced west along the Trail of Tears in 1838, a few— largely through the efforts of William Holland Thomas— managed to retain their land on the Qualla Boundary and today comprise the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

The Great Smoky Mountains

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• This mountain range is part of the Appalachian Mountains. It runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. Prior to European exploration and settlement, trails through these had been transited by American Indian tribes such as the Iroquois, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba and others.

Allegheny Mountains

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• Highland plateau region in south-central USA in southern Missouri, northern Arkansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The peaks lie at an altitude of 1,200–1,800 ft. The plateau was traditionally a poor area of subsistence farming, but has attracted tourists and people seeking retirement homes.

Ozark Plateau

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• This land feature is the flat stretch of land that borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 2,200 miles long, stretching from New York, through the southeast United States.

Atlantic Coastal Plains

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• An area along the Atlantic coast in Maine.

Aroostook Plain

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• This swamp is subtropical wetlands located in the southern portion of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed.

Everglades Swamp

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• This swamp is a shallow, 438,000 acre, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida border in the United States. A majority of the swamp is in Georgia. It is the largest peat-based "blackwater" swamp in North America, and one of the largest in the world.

Okefenokee Swamp

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• From west to east, or left to right they are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth.

The Great Lakes

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• This Bay is an arm of Lake Michigan, located along the east coast of Wisconsin. In the 17th Century the bay was named Baie des Puants ("Bay of the Stinkers"). The stench apparently came from algae in the stagnant water of the bay. The French received the name from their Indian guides, who called the Indians living near this bay by a derogatory word meaning "Stinkers". Bart Star and Bret Favre Played quarterback there.

Green Bay

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• It is a peninsula in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts. It was among the first places settled by Europeans in North America.

Cape Cod

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• This bay is a large estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the Northeast seaboard of the United States whose fresh water mixes for many miles with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The area around the bay was inhabited by the Lenape, and the Indian name for the bay was Poutaxat. The first recorded European visit to the bay was by Henry Hudson in 1609.

Delaware Bay

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• This bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. Captain John Smith of England explored and mapped the bay between 1607 and 1609.

Chesapeake Bay

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• This lake is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second-largest saltwater lake in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the largest lake in Louisiana.

Lake Pontchartrain

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• This river is the second longest river system in the United States. Only the Missouri River is longer. It flows 2,340 miles from its source in northwestern Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. The River has the third largest drainage basin in the world, exceeded in size only by the watersheds of the Amazon and Congo Rivers.

Mississippi River

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• This river begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at the Point in Pittsburgh, PA, and flows 981 miles to join the Mississippi at Cairo, Ill. This river was important for travel for European settlers.

Ohio River

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• This river is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. The river was once known as the Cherokee River. During the Great Depression the TVA was formed to bring jobs and electricity this poor area of the country.

Tennessee River

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• This river in Virginia is 410-miles long. The Native Americans called the river the Powhatan River, named for the chief of the Powhatan. The English colonists constructed the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607 on its banks.

James River

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• This river flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast. Some call it the Nation’s River because it flows through Washington D.C.

Potomac River

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• This river is 315-miles long and flows from north to south through eastern New York. Its headwaters are in the Adirondack Mountains; it flows past Albany, and finally forms the border between New York City and New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into Upper New York Bay.

Hudson River

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• These mountains are located in upper New York. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau. Originally, the mountains' name was spelled "Kaatskil" by the 17th Century Dutch settlers - a spelling still attested in Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle", taking place in this area and emphasizing the Dutch origin of the earlier European settlers there.

Catskill Mountains

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• These mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains range. They run from Georgia north to Pennsylvania. They are the highest mountains in eastern North America. About 125 peaks exceed 5,000 feet the highest being 6,684 feet. At the foot of these mountains various tribes including the Siouan Manahoacs, the Iroquois, and the Shawnee hunted and fished.

Blue Ridge Mountains