The States
The very first colony on an island that is off the coast of what is now North Carolina was....
Roanoke
The first places to be settled were along this landform in the Atlantic Coast and Appalachian Region.
The coastal plain.
Because early factories used water power, many settlements developed near the.....
The coastal plains soil is very....
fertile
The United Sates Naval Academy is located in this city and state....
Annapolis, MD.
The first lasting colony in Virginia is....
Jamestown
Settlers did not often move over the mountains until the discovery of the ______________________.
Cumberland Gap.
early centers of trade developed along different waterways because of the....
easy transportation and trade.
Mining companies must ________________ the land when they stop mining to restore nature.
Reclaim.
The western border of these two states in the Mississippi River.
Kentucky and Tennessee
Captain John Smith/ The English
Virginia's main trading crop was....
Tobacco.
The major contributor to centers of trade such as Memphis and Louisville was their location on....
The Mississippi River.
The _____________________ made it very difficult for early settlers to move west.
Mountains
The Great Smokey Mountains are a smaller section of the Appalachians found in....
Tennessee
Jamestown was settled in....
1607
Maryland was founded by Catholics on the principle of....
Freedom of Religion.
The _______________________ helped ports such as Baltimore's inner harbor, Newport News, Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Chesapeake Bay
Fall line
Because of Virgnia's booming tobacco industry, many people began to move and settle into the area that is now this state?
North Carolina
The first two states WEST of the Appalachians are....
Kentucky and Tennessee
People in the Appalachian states began a tradition of making their own pottery, furniture and baskets because.....
They had a hard time trading.
The center of states governments in known as the....
Capital City
Due to the many rivers flowing down the Appalachians in into the Tennessee river, many dams were created to make.....
Hydroelectric power
This state was divided into which two states after the civil war?
Virginia and West Virginia