What do we call the journey that the Cherokee were forced to take after being forced westward?
The Trail of Tears
100
Who was the first European to sail down the Mississippi river?
Robert La Salle
100
What do we call large farms where tobacco, cotton, and rice were grown in the south?
plantations
100
What do we call the period after the Civil War when the South's buildings and its economy were rebuilt?
Reconstruction
100
What is the name of the town where the 1828 gold rush occurred?
Dahlonega
200
Who made up the alphabet for the Cherokee language?
Sequoyah
200
What was the only clue left from the lost colony of Roanoke?
CROATOAN
200
What do we call a person who settled in a part of the country and prepared it fro others?
A pioneer
200
Why was the Civil War a time of great suffering for people of the Southeast?
Many people died, cities were burned down, and factories and farms were destroyed.
200
What is it called when southern states separated African American and White people in public places?
Segregation
300
What is the Cherokee method of decision making?
Coming to a consensus
300
What was the first permanent English settlement on North American land?
St. Augustine
300
Who was the first president born into poverty?
Andrew Jackson
300
Name two reasons the Civil War began.
Slavery (North wanted it outlawed, South did not), Power (the South thought individual states should have more rights and the North thought the national government should)
300
What was the name of the woman who would not give up her seat on the bus in order to stand up for the equal rights of all people?
Rosa Parks
400
What is the name of the CHerokee reservation where many Cherokee live today?
The Qualla Boundary
400
What was the first successful British colony in North America?
Jamestown, Virginia
400
What was the name of Thomas Jefferson's house?
Monticello
400
What word is used to describe when an area, such as a few states or a region, pulls out of the rest of the country?
To secede
400
What do we call the area that is made up of the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill?
the Triangle Region
500
Name 3 ways that European settlers affected the Cherokee.
brought diseases, brought new things to trade, took their land, taught them English, introduced them to new tools
500
What was Juan Ponce de Leon in search of on his exploration?
The Fountain of Youth
500
Who is known as the "Father of the Constitution"
James Madison
500
Did Fort Sumter belong to the Union or the Confederacy?
The Union
500
What is the name of the organization that helped to provide food, clothing, and medical care to former slaves after the Civil War?