Vocabulary 1
Cherokee Native Americans
Vocabulary 2
European Explorers and the Southeast
Civil War and the Southeast
100
A person who settled in a part of a country and prepared it for others.
What is a pioneer?
100
Who forced the Cherokee to give up their land and travel west on a journey called the Trail of Tears?
What is the U.S. government?
100
Name for the Northern states in the Civil War
What is Union
100
Name a major industry in the Southeast
What is agriculture?
100
The two major causes for the Civil War.
What is slavery and how much power the state and national goverments should have?
200
To pull out from the United States.
What is to secede?
200

What the Cherokee did for their food, before the Europeans arrived.

What was the Cherokee hunted?

200
Name for the Southern states in the Civil War
What is Confederacy
200

Military base where first battle of Civil War occurred.

What is Fort Sumter?

200
A very influential leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. ?
300
A decision making process used by the Cherokee Native Americans.
What is consensus?
300
Tourism, artwork, crafts and lumber industry.
What are the major businesses run by the North Carolina Cherokee today?
300
Large farms in the Southeast that grew tobacco, rice, and cotton.
What is a plantation?
300
The Southeast area that Juan Ponce de Leon explored and what was he looking for?
What is Florida? and What is the fountain of youth?
300
Three effects of the Civil War on the Southeast.
What is one in 4 Confederate soldiers died, many cities had been burned down, and slavery became illegal in the United States?
400
To seperate black people from white people in public places.
What is to segregate?
400
A president of the US who encouraged the Cherokee Native Americans to stop hunting and focus more on farming.
Who was George Washington?
400
A system of trains and buses, that carry many people through a city.
What is a public transportation system?
400
The thing that explorer Hernando de Soto was looking for in the Southeast.
What is gold?
400

The Freedmen's Bureau purpose.

What is to help former slaves with food, housing and jobs?

500
A person who lived in a forest far away from towns.
What is a backwoodsman?
500
A Cherokee man who developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language.
Who was Sequoyah?
500
The period of time after the Civil War when the South's buildings and economy were rebuilt.
What is the period of reconstruction?
500
Name three presidents from the Southeast.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson?
500

The three cities that make up the Tech Triangle in North Carolina

What are Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill?

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