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100
The everglades are in what state?
Florida
100
New Orleans is in what state?
Louisiana
100
Name at least three traditional foods of the Southeast
Fried chicken, jambalaya, ham, crayfish, gumbo, pie, etc...
100
Many settlers came in search of treasure and
What is gold?
100
Owning another human being
What is slavery?
200
Name at least three animals that live in the Everglades.
What is climate?
200
What are some products that are imported through New Orleans?
Sugar, bananas, cofee, cocoa beans, chemicals
200
Why did Walt Disney chose Florida for the location of Disney World? Name two reasons.
Lots of tourists, mild climate, airports and highways, far from Disney Land, the land was easy to change
200
Many settlers came from countries such as
What is England, Spain, and France
200
Most slaves lived in the
What is the Southeast?
300
Name three characteristics of the Everglades.
Water, swampy, grassy, hot, humid, etc...
300
Decendents of what two types of early residents are calle Creoles?
French and Spanish
300
Name at least two coal mining states in the southeast
Arkansas, Lousisiana, Missisipi, Alabama, Tenessee, Georgia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina
300
This Native American girl saved English settler's life and later married John Rolf
Who is Pocahontas?
300
Large farms in the Southeast were called
What is plantations?
400
What did people try to build in the Big Cypress Swamp?
Airport
400
An important feature of jazz is improvisation. What is improvisation?
To make up at the spur of the moment
400
What do fish farmers control about the fish that they raise?
Food, water temperature, disease
400
Many settlers died of this
What is starvation, sickness
400
Eli Witney invented a machine called this
What is the cotton gin?
500
What might happen if the Everglades dry up completely?
Answers will vary
500
What are some of the main atractions in New Orleans?
Answers will vary
500
Name at least three crops grown in the southeast
oranges, peanuts, rice, cotton, sugar cane, peaches, soybeans, corn
500
The first English settlers came to this colony
What is Jamestown?
500
The North did not have many slaves because
There weren't a lot of big farms in the North