Vocabulary
A person who wants to stop or end slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
Enslaved Africans were brought to the South to work where?
On Plantations
This war went on for four years that split the nation in two over the ideas of slavery. What was this war called?
The Civil War
New Orleans and Miami are known as big what attractions?
Tourism Attractions
The process of withdrawing from an organization
What is secede
The state or condition of being near
What is Proximity
This boot-shaped state seceded from the United States
Louisiana
Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the name of 500 lap car race that began in Florida?
Daytona 500
An agricultural estate
What is a plantation?
What does it mean to Boycott something?
A refusal to buy a certain product to bring attention to a problem
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed a law that took the land held by the Native people. What was this called?
The Indian Removal Act
Who was president of the seceded states (Confederate States of America)
Jefferson Davis
What type of tourism does New Orleans offer?
Entertainment & Food
A small landowning farmer is called a what?
Yeoman
What is the process of removing people from a place of danger
Evacuate
This enslaved preacher led a slave rebellion in Virginia. Who was this person?
Who was Nat Turner
Who was the young minister who helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is consider the music of the south?
The Blues
A sharecropper is a what?
A farmer who works land for the owner and receives part of the value of what is harvested instead of pay.
What is Commerce?
Serving as a conductor on the railroad to freedom, this enslaved woman became hero in her own right? Who is this person?
Who is Harriet Tubman
Who refused to give up their seat or move to the back of the bus, and was later arrested?
Rosa Parks
New Orleans is famous for what type of music
Jazz
What is an estuary?
the place were fresh water from a river mixes with the salt water from an ocean