Geography
List 3 states found in the Southeast
Virginia
North/South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tenessee
Mississippi
Kentucky
Louisana
Name two types of landforms found in the Southeast.
Mountains, coastal plains, swamps/wetlands, islands, and foothills.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson made a law that forced Native American tribes to be removed from their homes and sent to live in Oklahoma.
Martin Luther Kinger Jr.
Who is a Civil Rights Movement leader who was known for his nonviolent philsophies.
Underground Railroad
What is the secret system that helped enslaved people escape.
What state is shaped like an L
Louisana
Name 3 natural resources found in the Southeast?
peanuts, seafood, cotton, tobacco, beans, citrus plants, rice, etc
Where were people kidnapped from their home and brought to American to be enslaved?
West Africa (Africa is also ok)
Abraham Lincoln
Who is a president during the Civil War who helped to abolish slavery
Cashcrop
What is a a plant that is grown to make a profit (money)
Name two states that have a coastline.
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
North/South Carolina
Virgina
Missisippi
Louisana
What is the name of the mountain range in the Southeast?
The Appalachian mountains
What are two causes of the Civil War?
1. the disagreement over of Slavery
2. The Southern States seceded from the Country
Rosa Parks
Who is a Civil Rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus.
Boycott
What state is above Louisana?
Arkansas
Why was the soil so fertile (good to grow food in) in the south?
Rain carries the minerals from the mountains down to the valleys.
What was the Civil Rights Movement? When around did it take place?
It was a time in American History where people were fighting for racial equality and the end of segration. It happened in the 1950s and 1960s.
Harriet Tubman
Who is an escaped slave who later worked on the Underground Railroad as a conducter.
Large crop farms where enslaved people worked.
What the most Northern Southeast state?
West Virginia?
Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
Name or describe a famous boycott that helped the desegregation of America during the Civil Rights Movement.
Montegomery Bus Boycott. People boycotted the bus after Rosa Parks refused her seats for over a year. Many black people road the bus so this caused the bus companies to lose a lot of money.
Andrew Jackson
Who is Ms. Gallagher's least favorite president and also the president who signed the Indian Removal Act into law
Seceded
What is a state that leaves a country