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B. Prince Edward Island consists of the main island and 231 minor islands and its total land area is a bit larger than Delaware’s 1,948 square miles. It is twice as large as Rhode Island’s 1,033 square miles; less than half as large as Connecticut’s 4,842 square miles; and about a third of the land area of Hawaii’s 6,422 square miles.
C. Salem, Oregon, has a population of about 165,000 residents. Lansing, Michigan, has about 115,000 people, followed by Springfield, Illinois, with about 117,000 and Hartford, Connecticut, with about 124,000. The state capital with the fewest residents is Montpelier, Vermont, with less than 10,000.
D. The river drains the outflow from all of the Great Lakes – Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario - the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, containing 21 percent of the world's surface fresh water. The Saint Lawrence also contains outflow from Lake Champlain and other lakes and rivers in the northeast United States.
A. The island, then called Ile Saint-Jean, was part of the French colony of Acadia which was conquered by the British in 1758 during the French and Indian War. The French colonists known as Acadians were forced to leave and the land was taken over by farmers from New England. Some of the Acadians later settled in Louisiana where they came to be called Cajuns.