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| William Bradford | Governor of the Plymouth Colony and organized the harvest celebration we call Thanksgiving today with the Indians. |
| Anne Hutchinson | First woman leader and promoter of religious freedom. Helped found Rhode Island. |
| William Penn | A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania. |
| joiaeo | Strong leader of Jamestown Colony |
| John Wise | Colonial minister from Massachusetts that led a town resistance to taxes imposed by the English governor. He later helped reorganized the Massachusetts colonial government. |
| Roger Williams | Founded Rhode Island, urged separation of church and state |
| Grid Systems | Lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares to better identify places on a map |
| Legends | A key that defines that symbols on the map |
| Symbols | May be colors, patterns, lines or other special marks |
| Scales | Used to compare a distance on the map to a distance in the real world. |
| Compass Rose | A direction marker that shows direction |
| Great Plains | North central part of the United States |
| Mississippi River | Begins in Minnesota and drains into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Rocky Mountains | Western region of the United States |
| Southwest Region | Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona |
| Midwest Region | North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio |
| Northeast Region (aka New England) | Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, |
| Cardinal Points | The four main points on a compass. |
| Landform region | an area of location that has a pattern of similar landforms such as mountains, canyons, plains, etc. |
| Climate region | An area of location that has a consistent pattern of temperature, rainfall, and wind speed |
| Vegetation region | An area of location that has a pattern of similar vegetation such as forest, grassland, desert, tundra |
| The Great Plains | This region is made up of plains and prairies which is an area of flat or gently rolling low land. |
| Great Plains Region consists of | Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming |
| Climate of the Great Plains: | The climate of this area is hot in the summer and very cold in the winter with extreme winds. |
| Vegetation of the Great Plains: | This region is known as the “Bread Basket” of the United States because of the amount of agriculture produced in this region. |
| The Rocky Mountain Region consists of | A mountain range that stretches from British Columbia, Canada to New Mexico |
| This region is made up of the mountain system called | the Rocky Mountains |
| Rocky Mountain climate | The climate is cool in the summer, very cold in the winter and dry. |
| Rocky Mountain vegetation | covered with pine, fir and oak trees |
| Coastal Plains Region | A region that stretches from Massachusetts to Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Coast |
| Coastal Plains landform | This regions lies close to sea level and gradually rises inland resulting in plains, swamps, and many rivers. |
| Coastal Plains climate | Because of its location to the Atlantic Ocean, the climate is mild. It is cool to warm in the summer and the winter. |
| Coastal Plains vegetation | Due to its landform and the fact it receives much rainfall, this area is used for agriculture. |
