Who Am I?
Made gospel music popular.
Aretha Franklin
Native American diseases killed thousands if Europeans.
False ... Europeans diseases killed thousands of American Indians.
What caused new states to form?
People moved west!
What is music, painting, dance, literature, & cooking?
Culture
Service industries focused in medical research and banking.
Birmingham, Alabama
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Abraham Lincoln
The 2 states that did not join the Confederacy was Kentucky and West Virgina.
True
What was the end result of the Civil War?
Slavery ended
NASCAR stands for what?
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
One area of North Carolina is called the Research Triangle. What cities are included in this?
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill
Lived in southern Appalacia where they built homes from wood and clay.
Cherokee
Of the 100 fastest-growing United States cities, 12 are in the Southeast.
False ... 16
Cherokee were forced to move to move west to Oklahoma due to Settlers taking their land. What was this journey called?
Trail of Tears
New Orleans = ???
Memphis & Nashville, Tennessee = ???
New Orleans = Jazz / Gospel
Memphis & Nashville, Tennessee = Rock & Roll
What state is the lead of service industries? It sells everything from cars to groceries.
Arkansans
Who are the three leaders from Virginia who created a new nation?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, & James Madison
Memphas, Tennessee is where the Beale Street Music Festival is located.
True
Segregation separated African Americans and whites in the Southeast. This changed in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What did some people call this?
"The Second Reconstruction"
Who was able to write stories about their region?
William Faulkner = Life in Mississippi
Zora Neale Hurston = African American experiences in her novels
Where are the headquarters of many communications, technology, and Internet companies located?
Northern Virginia
An early pioneer who led a group to Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap and build the Wilderness Road.
Daniel Boone
False ... The Confederacy lost the war.
Settlers wanted Cherokee land, but Cherokee did not want to move ... what was the result of this?
Cherokee fought in the courts to keep land but did not win.
What is one way the economy of the Southeast has changed?
From agriculture to service industries.
There are 16 growing cities in the southeast, what 3 cities did we focus on?
New Orleans, Charleston, and Atlanta