Social Studies
What is agricultural ?
The business of growing crops and raising animals
What is a growing season?
The number of days in a year when the weather is warm enough for crops.
What is the Pharaoh name in ancient Egypt? ( the one we learned )
Tutankhamun
This is grown to be sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
The natural resource of the Southeast that is dug out of the ground by miners.
What is coal?
The beginning of the Mississippi River is located in this body of water and state?
What is Lake Itasca- Minnesota?
The mouth of the Mississippi River is located in this body of water and state.
The nickname for the Mississippi River.
What is "big waters" or " father of waters"?
The reason for the growing season in the Southeast to be longer than in some other parts of the country.
What is climate?
(warmer temperatures)
The setting apart of a group of people.
The rights of people to be treated equally under the law.
What are the Civil Rights?
The refusal to buy or use something if they disagree with the company that sells it.
What is boycott?
The large farm where crops such as cotton or sugarcane are grown.
What is a plantation?
The system of symbols that represents syllables of a word.
What is syllabary?
The place that is ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
The group of people who meet to talk and make decisions.
What is a council?
The means of putting an end to something, such as slavery.
What is abolition?
The journey that Cherokee made after being forced to leave their homes by President Andrew Jackson.
What is The Trail of Tears?
The date the Declaration of Independence was approved by Congress.
What is July 4th, 1776?
The person that wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom. They often hid slaves in their homes and provided food to them.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The lady that refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white person. She was arrested in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The warm climate of the Southeast brings these on vacation
What is the "War Between The States?
The amount of time the Civil War lasted.
What is more than four years?