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Grassy land in central Kentucky known for its horse farms is called the _______ region.
Bluegrass
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on the _______ frontier.
Kentucky
President ________ was nicknamed "Old Hickory".
Andrew Jackson
The _______ is a region of fertile soil along the Mississippi river.
T or F: Maria Younghans was a lightkeeper at the Biloxi lighthouse for more than fifty years.
True
The Kentucky Derby is held in _______ each year.
Lexington
A chain of mountains in Tennessee with haze and low clouds is the _________ Mountains.
Great Smokey
An Alabama woman who wrote a famous novel about racism in the south was ________.
Harper Lee
The ________ tribe in Mississippi was known for playing stickball.
Choctaw
Arkansas's largest industry is ______.
agriculture
A visitor's center in _______ Arkansas tells the story of the first black students to attend the city's high school.
Little Rock
A famous military park in Tennessee preserves the _______ battlefield.
Shiloh
Laws that kept black people separate from white people in public places were called _________ laws.
Jim Crow
Martin Luther King Jr. helped organize many _________ protests.
civil rights
Booker T. ___________ founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Washington
What is the capital of Arkansas?
Little Rock
What is the capital of Louisiana?
Baton Rouge
What is the capital of Tennessee?
Nashville
What were civil war soldiers from Alabama called?
Yellowhammers
What retail chain started by Sam Walton opened its first store in Arkansas?
Walmart
Who developed a writing system for the Cherokee people?
Sequoyah
Some of Arkansas's earliest people lived in ______ in the Ozark Mountains.
bluff shelters
A major Mississippi industry that uses soil and water to create man-made fish ponds to produce fish is known as _____________.
aquaculture
Louisiana is named after the French king ________.
Louis XIV
Who spent several years in Louisiana painting birds?
John James Audubon