Essential Questions

Understand glaciers and their impact on New Hampshire's topography

Explore the Abenaki and their way of life

Investigate boundaries and their connections to the state's physical and political shape

Determine how early industries converted natural resources into products

Study the community needs of the first four English settlements

Examine the lives of several different groups of people in early New Hampshire

Define a revolution and explore three possibly revolutionary events in New Hampshire's history

Consider the purpose of government using historic and modern-day scenarios

Evaluate changes in transportation and the impact on people

Create a timeline of farming and trace how it has changed in the state

Examine primary sources about sectionalism

Investigate the impact of hydropower and steam power on New Hampshire industries

Explore the positives and negatives of urbanization

Examine the factors the pushed or pulled people to immigrate during the industrial era

Analyze and compare maps of immigrant jobs and settlements

Explore how railroads changes tourism over time

Explore watershed systems and human pollution through primary sources

Develop compelling questions about New Hampshire today and create a research project to explore them