1. People of the Northeast

2. Early People
Before the 1500s, the only people who lived on the land now called North America were Native Americans.

3. Even they were immigrants to this land, traveling from Asia across a land bridge and ice sheets that connected the two continents.
The people migrated into North American making homes in the mountains, on the plains and near the coasts.

4. There were two major groups of Native Americans in the Northeast.
These tribes were organized according to their language.

5. The Algonquian were a family of tribes that lived near the Atlantic Coast.

6. The Iroquois tribes made their homes inland.

7. Most tribes shared the land and the natural resources wisely.
However, at times tribes would clash and fight.

8. A Plan for Peace
Two wise Iroquois leaders convinced five other Iroquois tribes that it would be better to share resources and band together against common enemies.
Hiawatha
Deganawida

10. Iroquois Confederation
These tribes worked together to create a government that was a model of democracy. All important matters were voted upon.
The fifty tribes of the Confederation each had one vote. Decisions had to be unanimous.

11. “only one body, one head, and one heart.”
Does this symbol look familiar to you?

12. THEN

14. European Explorers Discover the New World

15. The Dutch set up a prosperous trading post in New Amsterdam
The Dutch set up a prosperous trading post in New Amsterdam. Later to become New York City.

16. The French explored the northern parts of the Northeast.
Quebec City

17. The English created settlements from Portsmouth, New Hampshire
to Boston, Massachusetts
to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

18. The Second Wave
From 1860 to 1930 another wave of immigrants arrived in the Northeast.

21. And the rest
of the
development of
the Northeast
is history!