Vocabulary Part I
Many European settlers began to develop large farms known as this.
What are plantations?
An act of leaving the Union.
These mountains run through the middle of the Southeast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The year Civil War begins.
What is 1861?
He was a scientist whose work led to advances in agriculture.
Who was George Washington Carver?
Making one person the property of another and forced to work without pay.
What is slavery?
Those states formed a new country, the Confederate States of America. People also called it the _______.
What is Confederacy?
The Southeast states do not have any Appalachian Mountains.
What are Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
He was a Cherokee leader and developed a writing system for the Cherokee language.
Who was Sequoyah?
Crops raised to be sold.
What are cash crops?
A war fought between groups of people in the same country.
What is civil war?
The reason why most hurricanes strike coastal areas.
What are oceans?
An area of land where the Cherokee settled.
What are the Appalachians?
She refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Who was Rosa Parks?
To end slavery in all the states.
What is abolish?
Land that is almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
The time during which the weather is warm enough for plants to grow.
What is the growing season?
People known of the Southeast who built villages along rivers or lakes.
Who are the Native Americans?
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
An earlier name given for the official name of the United States.
What is Union?
An area of low land that is partly covered with slow-moving or still water.
What is a wetland?
A large tropical storm.
What is a hurricane?
They were known to weave branches together to make frames that they covered with mud or clay.
Who were the Cherokee?
She helped to create the Cherokee's first written language at six-years old.
Who was Anyokah?