States and Capitals
Geography of the Southeast
History of the Southeast
The Civil War
Ports of the Southeast
100
This is the capital of North Carolina.
What is Raleigh?
100
The southeast is a major agricultural, or farming, region because of this.
What is it has a long growing season?
100
Early American Indians lived in villages near here.
What are waterways, such as lakes and rivers?
100
This plan made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state in order to maintain a balance of slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This is the busiest port in the United States.
What is the Port of South Louisiana?
200
This is the capital of Virginia.
What is Richmond?
200
This provided a passage through the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
200
Europeans settled near here when they first arrived in North America.
What is along the coasts?
200
How was the economy in the Southeast different from the economy in the Northeast?
The Southeast depended on agriculture, so they wanted slavery. The Northeast depended on manufacturing, so they did not need slavery.
200
Why did cities grow around ports?
Ports were near the mouths of rivers and other water ways, which made it easier to transport goods.
300
This is the capital of Arkansas.
What is Little Rock?
300
This industry is important to the Southeast due to its long coastlines.
What is the fishing industry?
300
The people of this region created their own culture.
What is Appalachia?
300
11 Southeast states seceded, or left, from the United States creating this.
What is the Confederate States of America?
300
These are 2 things that the United States imports, or gets from other countries.
What are electronics, automobiles, rubber, bananas, beef?
400
This is the capital of West Virginia.
What is Charleston?
400
This is an important farming region in the Southeast.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
400
These are huge farms that grew cash crops in the Southeast.
What are plantations?
400
This was a route of safe homes and people to help slaves escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
These are 2 things that are exported, or sent to other countries from the United States.
What are grapefruit, citrus fruits, textiles, steel, chemicals?
500
This is the capital of Louisiana.
What is Baton Rouge?
500
These are 3 major cash crops in the Southeast.
What are tobacco, rice, corn, cotton, oranges?
500
These people were forced to work on plantations.
Who are slaves?
500
When the Civil War ended in 1865, this happened to the slaves.
What is they were free?
500
This process makes it faster and cheaper to send and receive goods from one country to another.
What is container shipping?
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