Vocabulary
States/Capitals
The Land
Settling the South
Living in the South
100
This is a powerful storm with very strong winds and heavy rain.
What is a hurricane?
100
The capital of Oklahoma.
What is Oklahoma City?
100
This mountain range goes through the south states.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
This is the group of people that originally occupied the land before the Europeans came to the South.
What are Native Americans?
100
This job is common along the east coast in the southern states.
What is fishing?
200
This is part of the sea that pushes into the land.
What is a bay?
200
The capital of Alabama.
What is Montgomery?
200
This is how I could describe the South's climate.
What is mild, hot in the summer and fierce from hurricanes in fall?
200
These are the places they would set up in the south to teach religion.
What is a mission?
200
This celebration is celebrated in the South in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
What is Mardi Gras?
300
This is a slow-moving stream that flows through a swamp.
What is a bayou?
300
This is Tennessee's capital?
What is Nashville?
300
This is the major river that runs through the south states and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
These were large areas of land where slaves were forced to work and harvest a master's crops.
What is a plantation?
300
Many immigrants from this country live in the southern states.
What is Mexico?
400
This is someone that is a person's child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so on.
What is a descendant?
400
This is Delaware's capital.
What is Dover?
400
This is one of the South states that sees the most precipitation.
What is Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida?
400
During the civil war, the ________ soldiers fought the Northern _______ soldiers.
What is confederate, union?
400
This is the term telling where most of the people in Georgia live today.
What is urban?
500
This is a war that is fought between two groups in the SAME country.
What is a civil war?
500
This is South Carolina's captial?
What is Columbia?
500
This is a type of tree that grows in Florida due to the tropical climate.
What is a palm tree?
500
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This job is common among workers in the mountains. It involves coal.
What is mining?