Slavery
The SE highly depended on these because they had large farms that required many workers to get the job done and not enough settlers to do the work.
What is slaves?
What is the Mississippi River?
This disease was brought to the New World by Europeans and wiped out 9 out of 10 Native Americans.
What is Small Pox?
This term describes the Europeans because they wanted the Native Americans' land.
What is greedy?
These 4 words describe the southeast's weather.
What are hot, humid, warm, and wet?
These people typically signed a contract to work for 7 years then were free to leave.
What are indentured slaves?
This ocean borders the southeast region.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Native Americans first came into contact with these two white men.
Who are Ponce de Leon and Hernand de Soto?
This act was a cruel law passed that called for native peoples of the southeast to leave or be forcibly removed from their lands to lands in what is now modern day Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
These strong storms emerge due to the south's location near the ocean and the generally warmer temperatures.
What are hurricanes and tornadoes?
What is the cotton gin?
These mountains run from the northeast to the southeast of the U.S.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the term used to describe native or indigenous people who built high earthen type structures in their settlements.
What is mound builders?
The Native Americans were forced to move to land here.
What is west of the Mississippi River?
Much of the south was developed for this.
What is farming (agriculture)?
Name 3 people that grew wealthy from the slavery production of the Southeast Region.
What are southern plantation owners, ship owners, fabric and thread mill owners, slave traders?
A large flat expanse of fertile land found in the S.E.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
This is the name for the long and deadly march of native tribes to the West.
What is the Trail of Tears.
The land where Native Americans were forced to move to is now known as this state.
What is Oklahoma?
When a farmer raises a specific plant to sell for money, he or she is raising this type of crop.
What is a cash crop?
This woman was a famous former slave often called Moses because she repeatedly returned to the south to help her people escape slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This body of water, found in the southeast, is surrounded on 3 sides by land.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Name the 5 native American tribes of the Southeast.
What are the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole tribes.
This President signed into law the Indian Removal Act.
Who was President Andrew Jackson?
These were the 2 highly prized crops grown in the southeast.
What are tobacco and cotton?