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Mixed Bag
100
Native American tribe forced to walk the Trail of Tears
What is the Cherokee?
100
This is one of two crops that were important to the first settlers in the Southeast
What is cotton or tobacco?
100
The mouth, or end, of the Mississippi River is located in this state
What is Louisiana?
100
This large body of water forms the southern border of the region.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
100
This school was started to teach freed slaves to read, write and learn a trade.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
200
Explorers from this country founded Jamestown in Virginia
What is England
200
Florida is well know for producing lots of this citrus fruit.
What is an orange?
200
The southeast has lots of these areas where water is always on the ground.
What is wetlands?
200
Humid air contains lots of this.
What is moisture?
200
These two states form the western border of the Southeast region.
What is Arkansas and Louisiana?
300
Explorers form this country founded the first European settlement in St. Augustine, Florida
What is the Spain?
300
This non renewable resource is mined from the ground and used to generate electricity.
What is coal
300
Florida is a classic example of this landform.
What is a peninsula?
300
This body of water forms the eastern border of the region.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
In the Southeast, a large farm is called this.
What is a plantation?
400
He was a leader in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's and 1970's.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
This non renewable resource is found by drilling deep into the ground and pumped to the surface.
What is oil or petroleum?
400
The Appalachian Mountains cover some of every state but this one.
What is Florida?
400
This type of unpleasant weather can happen in the summer and fall.
What is a hurricane?
400
The flat and fertile land along the the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico is given this name.
What is the coastal plain?
500
This Southern musician helped make rock and roll music popular.
What is Elvis Presley
500
Most jobs in the Southeast are in this industry.
What is service industry?
500
These mountains run through many states in the Southeast.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
500
These large walls are built to protect people from floods.
What is levees?
500
This word best describes the winters in the Southeast.
What is mild?
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