Land and Climate
Southern States
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People of the South
100
The South is divided into these smaller regions.
What is the Upper South and Lower South?
100
The state north of Texas.
What is Oklahoma?
100
Piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
Difference between producer and consumer.
What is a producer is someone who makes or sells goods and a consumer is someone who buys or uses goods?
100
Name 2 American Indian groups.
What are Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole?
200
Two kinds of landforms in the South. 
What are plateaus, hills, and valleys?
200
3 of the 6 Upper South states.
What are Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina?
200
Define boycott.
What is when people refuse to do business with others?
200
A barrier built across a waterway to control the flow and level of water.
What is a dam?
200
Martin Luther King Jr. was known for this.
What is organizing a bus boycott?
300
Florida is an example of this.
What is a peninsula?
300
The number of southern states.
What are 14 states?
300
Define Civil Rights.
What are the rights that every citizen has by law?
300
Name 4 states that are interior states.
Answers may vary. 
300
Eli Whitney invented this.
What is the cotton gin?
400
It fans out into a huge delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The state to the north of Tennessee.
What is Kentucky?
400
An example of opportunity cost.
Answer may vary.
400
Define delta.
What is a triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river?
400
President Lincoln did not want the country to be "half slave and half free." Tell me what he meant by this.
Answers may vary.
500
2 Factors that control climate of the South.
What are latitude, elevation and closeness to the equator?
500
The 5 states along the Gulf of Mexico.
What are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida?
500

Define export. Name two most exported crops in the colonies.

What is a product that is sent out of a country to be sold or traded? What are tobacco and rice?

500
In a sequence of 3, provide an example of scarcity.
Answer may vary.
500
Explain why African Americans boycotted and protested in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is that African Americans wanted equal rights?
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