Geography
Geography Part 2
Pre-Colombian Peoples
Pre-Colombian Peoples Part 2
All About Regions
All About Regions Part 2
The Northeast
The Northeast Part 2
The Southeast
The Southwest
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What created the Grand Canyon?
What is the Colorado River?
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What was created between Nevada and Arizona in the 1930s? It was built to control floods, to supply water and power, and it also created Lake Mead.
What is the Hoover Dam?
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What were the two ways that people crossed to the new world?
What is by land and by water?
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The Iroquois invented the game being played below. They used basket-topped sticks, and games could last days and include up to a 1,000 players per team. Was used as a training exercise for warriors. 
What is Lacrosse?
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What two countries are neighbors to the United States?
What are Canada and Mexico?
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What is the name of this location (where immigrants arrived in the late 1800s to mid-1900s) from which they then settled into cities near those from their home countries? 
Where is Ellis Island?
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How many total states make up the Northeast?
What is 10?
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Fishing and shipping are important to most states in New England, except for one. Which state does not have a coastline?
What is Vermont?
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What type of music began in the region of Appalachia?
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What type of instrument is pictured below, popular in the music mentioned above?
What is Bluegrass music?
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What is a mandolin?
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This state has the most farms, leads the nation in cattle production and wind power, and is the top oil producer in the U.S.
What is Texas?
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What does latitude measure?
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What are lines of latitude also known as?
What is the distance north or south of the equator?
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What are parallels?
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What is the name of the infamous fault that lies in California?
What is the San Andreas Fault?
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Approximately how many thousands of years ago did the first people come to the Americas?
What is around 12,000 years?
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Here is an example of a Pueblo home. What were the sun-baked clay bricks known as? From which the homes get their name.
What is adobe?
100
What city became a major business hub for the Midwest, after the creation of the railroads?
Where is Chicago?
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What is the most densely populated U.S. region?
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What is the largest U.S. region?
What is the Northeast?
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What is the West?
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What New York city hosted the Winter Olympics twice, in 1932 and in 1980?
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In what state do Amish and Mennonite communities live, in what is known as "Dutch Country"?
Where is Lake Placid?
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Where is Pennsylvania?
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What minerals are particularly important in the Northeast?
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What state is known as the granite state?
What are coal and granite?
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What is New Hampshire?
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The pictured military base in Kentucky stores much of the U.S. gold reserves.
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What are the 4 Inland South states?
What is Fort Knox?
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What are West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas?
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What are the 4 states that make up the Southwest?
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What two time zones do these states span?
What are Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
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What are Central and Mountain times?
150
You might see this on a map. What is it called?
What is scale?
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What human process has led to Oklahoma's rise in earthquakes?
What is fracking?
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Native Americans use ________ ________ which cleared underbrush, and created farmland and paths.
What are controlled burns?
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What is this object? Often used to mark graves and property, representing family spiritual ancestors. 
What is a totem pole?
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What type of natural landmark makes up over half of the Southeast region?
What is a coastal plain?
150
The U.S. forcibly moved Native American tribes to Oklahoma during the 1830s. Nearly 4,000 deaths were attributed to members of the Cherokee tribe alone. What was this event called?
What is the Trail of Tears?
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When did Europeans begin settling in the Northeast, and for what purposes?
What is the 1600s; and they came for religious freedom, land, and money?
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In what basic (yet major) ways did factory growth of the 1830s impact daily life?
What is longer hours, but steady pay?
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What mountain range is a key feature of the region?
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How many states does this mountain range span AND what is the approximate length of its main trail?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
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What is 2,180 miles across 14 states?
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What is the largest city in Arizona and the largest in New Mexico? Also, what modern convenience allowed these areas to grow?
What is Phoenix and Albuquerque? What is air-conditioning?
200
What is the longest river in the U.S.? What river holds the most water?
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What is the shortest river and where is it located?
What is the Missouri River? What is the Mississippi River?
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What is the Roe River in Montana?
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What two major rivers did Lewis & Clark (1804 - 1806) take to get to the Pacific Ocean?
What are the Missouri and Columbia Rivers?
200
What is the title for scientists who study ancient cultures?
Who are archaeologists?
200
Here is an example of traditional Mandan home; dome, soil-covered, and multi-family. What is it called? 
What is an Earth Lodge?
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In what Northeastern city was the Declaration of Independence signed, and in what year?
What is Philadelphia in 1776?
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What were the two most notable Native American tribes to live in the Northeast region?
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What Great Lakes border the Northeast?
Who were the Algonquin (coastal tribe) and Iroquois (inland tribe)?
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What are lakes Erie and Ontario?
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What is the name of this large pile made up of the hard outer remains of sea animals that people collected, ate, and left behind in the same place over many, many years; helping archaeologists understand long-term coastal living of Native American tribes? 
What is a shell midden?
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What is the tallest mountain the region? Pictured here.
What is Mount Washington?
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What are the 4 Gulf Coast states?
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What are the 5 Atlantic Coast states?
What is Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana?
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What are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland?
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What European country colonized a portion of the region? What was the name of the religious settlements that they put in place?
What was Spain, and what were missions?
250
What are the four things that geography studies?
What is Earth's land, water, air, and living things?
250
What was the name of the land bridge that connected Asia to North America?
What is Beringia, the Bering Straight, or the Bering Land Bridge?
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While many tribes present in the Great Plains wandered to wherever hunting was present, there was one major tribe that stayed in one place year-round. What was their name?
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Along what major river did they live?
Who were the Mandan?
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What is the Missouri River?
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Who were the Lakota? 
What is the False Face Society?
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What are the 5 regions of the United States?
What are the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West?
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This is a picture of what man-made body of water that is used as a ___________________ by people in the Southwest? 
What is Lake Mead - which is a reservoir?
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What FOUR states make up the Middle Atlantic states in the Northeast?
What are Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania?
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Many towns in New England utilize a form of direct democracy. What does this mean?
What is citizens vote on local decisions?
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In what year was the first English settlement founded and what was it called?
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In what year did Ponce de Leon explore Florida & when was St. Augustine founded?
What is Jamestown, founded in 1607?
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What is 1513 (Ponce de Leon) & 1565 (St. Augustine)?
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What is the name of the gardening method that uses rocks and desert plants instead of grass?
What is xeriscaping?
300
What is the northernmost point and the southernmost point in the United States?
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What is the highest peak and lowest point in the United States?
What is Barrow, Alaska & Key West, Florida?
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What is Mount Denali (in Alaska) and Death Valley (in California)?
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What type of projection is this? 
What is a Mercator projection?
300
Due to the dry nature of the Southwest, Pueblo people would practice this type of agriculture - where seeds were planted deep in sandy soil with rock beneath to trap moisture.
What is dry farming?
300
These dolls were given to Pueblo girls to learn traditions. Men wore masked versions.
They represented spirits of nature and would be used in ceremonies to pray for good harvests. 
What are Kachina?
300
Why is snowfall particularly heavy in the Midwest during the winter months?
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How do tornadoes form?
What is moisture from the Great Lakes increases snowfall?
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What is warm air from the Gulf of Mexico meets cold northern air over the plains?
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Into what two smaller regions is the West split?
What are the Pacific and Mountain regions?
300
What was the rallying cry used by American colonists when British laws became too restrictive?
What is "no taxation without representation"?
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What was the chronological order of changes in transportation during the 1800s?
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Who invented the steamboat and in what year was it launched? 
What is roads (rough and slow), followed by river travel and the invention of the steamboat, and ending with the linking of major cities by railroads?
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Who was Robert Fulton, launching the steamboat in 1807?
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What oil spill in 2010 caused major ecological damage to the region? What catastrophic hurricane battered the region in 2005?
What is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? What is Hurricane Katrina?
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In what year did Mexico gain control of Texas? What laws were passed that made many Texans upset?
What was 1821? Mexico raised taxes and sought to limit the number of U.S. settlers.
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At what degree of longitude does the International Date Line run near - and what do you call those longitudinal lines?
What is 180o and they are called meridians?
450
How many time zones does Earth have, and how many degrees of longitude does Earth spin per hour?
What is 24 time zones and 15o (1 time zone) per hour?
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What word can be best defined as a way of life in which people do not have a permanent home - they move from place to place?
What is nomadic?
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Native Americans in the Great Plains used this tool on the back of dogs to carry supplies. 
What is a travois?
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In what year did Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific, with the help of Sacagawea?
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What was the peak year for Gold Rush immigration to the West?
When was 1805?
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When was 1849?
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What states make up the West?
What are California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Alaska, and Hawaii?
450
What types of structures did the Algonquian people live in? What about the Iroquois? 
What is a wigwam (Algonquian) and longhouse (Iroquois)?
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What was the impact of the Ice Age on the region?
What is glaciers covered most of the Northeast at one point, shaping mountains and valleys, and forming many lakes; also, leaving rocks behind?
450
Define the following three landforms:
1) Piedmont
2) Coastal Plains
3) Plateaus
1) What is hilly land east of the mountains?
2) What is flat land along coast (covering much of the region)?
3) What is flat high land?
450
What oil discover brought many workers to the Southwest region, and in what year?
This discovery has been credited with launching the modern petroleum age.
What is the Spindletop oil discovery of 1901?
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What is a cartogram?
What is a map based on data, not the size of land?
500
What is the name of the boundary that separates east-flowing rivers from west-flowing rivers?
What is the Continental Divide?
500
What are the "Three Sisters"?
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Describe how the plants supported one another?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
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What are the beans climbed the corn and the squash shaded the soil to keep it moist?
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What were the 5 nations of the Iroquois Confederacy? 
What are the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Cayuga?
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What are the three political levels of government?
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Provide an example for each.
What are national (federal), state, and local (cities and counties)?
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Federal: Mail delivery and passing national laws.
State: Running schools, parks, and colleges.
Local: Managing police, fire, and fixing streets.
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What does it mean to be interdependent, when talking about regions?
What is regions rely on one another for food and resources; connecting through roadways, railways, and the internet?
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What is the significance of Patriot's Day? What major event is held that day in Boston?
What is that it marks the first battles of the American Revolution? What is the Boston Marathon?
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What are the SIX New England states?
What is Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont?
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What is the name of the pictured bridge, one of the longest above water? Also, what is its approximate length?
What is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which is approximately 23 miles long (according to our textbook)?
In fact, the Causeway is actually 23.87 miles long!
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Who was the first American to explore the Grand Canyon, and in what year?
Who was John Wesley Powell in 1869?
550
What is the difference between the Contiguous U.S. and the Continental U.S.?
You must include the states that are not included in each category as well.
What is contiguous are all connected states (not including Alaska or Hawaii) & continental are all North American states (not including Hawaii)?
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What were the last names of the French explorers who became the first Europeans to explore the Mississippi River (1673)?
Who were Jolliet & Marquette?
550
The Makah people lived in which present-day state?
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What was the name of their largest village?
Where is Washington?
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What is Ozette?
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These archeological findings in the dirt, reveal the size and shape of old Iroquois longhouses in the Northeast.
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What is the name of this major archaeological site found in the Southwest?
What are post hold molds?
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What is Mesa Verde?
550
What states make up the Midwest?
What are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin?
550
Describe the rain shadow effect!
What is moist air is forced to rise, cool, and release precipitation - leaving the air dry as it descends and warms? 
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In what year was the Iroquois Confederacy formed, by whom, and for what purpose?
What is 1550, by Deganawida and Hiawatha, to promote peace?
550
British colonies relied upon trade to help the colonies grow, what types of goods die they harvest and produce?
What is grain, lumber, furs, and fish?
550
Florida Fast Facts:
1) What is the name of this large wetland ecosystem?
2) What types of islands are the Florida Keys?
3) Florida is part of a larger region that stretches all the way to California, known for its warm climate and mild winters; covering the southern third of the United States. What is this region called?
4) Where do naval aviators train?
5) What is the name of the neighborhood in Miami where many Cuban people have settled?
1) What are the Everglades?
2) What are coral islands?
3) What is the Sun Belt?
4) Where is Pensacola, Florida?
5) What is Little Havana?
550
Mexican-American War Fast Facts:
1) What was the name of the famous battle that took place in Texas in 1836?
2) In what year did Texas join the United States?
3) Who was the U.S. President during the Mexican-American War?
4) What were the two rivers that the U.S. and Mexico disagreed upon where the border began?
5) In what year did the war end, with the capture of Mexico City?
1) What is the Battle of the Alamo?
2) When was 1845?
3) Who was James K. Polk?
4) What were the Rio Grande and the Nueces River?
5) When was 1848?
600
What are the four time zones that the U.S. is a part of?
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific zones?
600
What the Seven Natural Wonders?
What is the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, Victoria Falls, Great Barrier Reef, Paricutin Volcano, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, and the Northern Lights?
600
What tribe's mythology had the first man emerging from soil?
Who were the Lakota?
600
This multi-day religious ceremony of the Mandan people would involve buffalo dances, stories surrounding tribal history, and painful physical trials to showcase courage and self-sacrifice.
What is Okipa?
600
What are the three types of regional changes? Provide examples for each.
What are -
Human: moving water or building on land.
Natural: fast (volcanoes/floods) or slow (river erosion).
Tech: faster communication makes large regions feels more connected.
600
What states make up the Corn Belt?
What is Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota?
600
Provide the dates for the following events (hint: they are in chronological order).
1) Giovanni Verrazzano sailed the Northeast coast
2) Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River area
3) Boston Tea Party Protest
4) American Revolution Begins
5) American Revolution Officially Ends
What is...
1) 1524
2) 1609
3) 1773
4) 1775
5) 1783
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Random Facts:
1) In what year did Maine become a state?
2) In what year was One World Trade Center opened?
3) What were the names of two major hurricanes that caused major damage to the region? They occurred in 2011 and 2012.
4) What is the largest park in the contiguous United States?
5) The game Monopoly is based upon what city?
What is...
1) 1820?
2) 2014?
3) Irene & Sandy?
4) Adirondack Park?
5) Atlantic City?
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Civil War Fast Facts:
1) For what reason was the Civil War started?
2) What was the name of the "country" formed by the Southern states?
3) Who presided over this "country"?
4) In which Southeastern state did the Civil War officially begin & in what year?
5) In what year did the war end?
1) The Civil War began over the question of slavery. The South feared that Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery, so they broke off from the United States.
2) What is the Confederacy?
3) Who was Jefferson Davis?
4) What is South Carolina in 1861?
5) What is 1865?
600
Name the following places of interest in the Southwest:
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 
1) What is the Johnson Space Center?
2) What is Carlsbad Caverns?
3) What is the Capulin Volcano National Monument?
4) What is the Kitt Peak National Observatory?
5) What is Fountain Hills?