Southeast Overview & Landforms
Southeast Early History
Ports, Bridges & the Atlantic Coast States
Gulf Coast & Inland South States
Southwest Overview & Early History
Southwest Road to War & Statehood
Resources and the Southwest Today
The Southwest Today Continued
100
What mountain range is a key feature of the region?
DAILY DOUBLE
How many states does this mountain range span AND what is the approximate length of its main trail?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
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What is 2,180 miles across 14 states?
100
What city in the Southeast is known for it diverse cultural mix, including French, Spanish, Native American, and African influences? It is also the birthplace of Jazz.
What is New Orleans?
100
Describe the difference between import and export.
DAILY DOUBLE
Who invented the shipping container, making transport of goods faster and easier?
What is exports are goods that are sent out of a country, while imports are goods brought into a country?
DAILY DOUBLE
Who was Malcolm McLean?
100
What type of music began in the region of Appalachia?
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What type of instrument is pictured below, popular in the music mentioned above?
What is Bluegrass music?
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What is a mandolin?
100
What is the name of the pictured man-made landmark? It was completed in 1936 to control flooding, generate hydroelectric power, and to irrigate farmland/
What is the Hoover Dam?
100
Beginning in the 1830s, Native American tribes were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in what became known as ________________.
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During the Mexican-American War, there were many Americans opposed to the war as they believed that more slave states would be added to the U.S.
Henry David Thoreau penned an essay in which he coined this famous term.
What is the Trail of Tears?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Civil Disobedience?
100
What is a migrant worker?
What is a person who travels from place to place for temporary jobs?
100
This state has the most farms, leads the nation in cattle production and wind power, and is the top oil producer in the U.S.
What is Texas?
200
How many states make up the Southeast region, and what important U.S. city is sometimes grouped into this region as well?
What is 13 states & Washington D.C.?
200
Who created the Wilderness Road in 1775 to aid settlers moving west across the Appalachian Mountains?
Who was Daniel Boone?
200
What is the name of the major tech hub located in North Carolina, where there is a focus on innovations in science and medicine?
What is Research Triangle Park?
200
The pictured military base in Kentucky stores much of the U.S. gold reserves.
What is Fort Knox?
200
What are the 4 states that make up the Southwest?
DAILY DOUBLE
What two time zones do these states span?
What are Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
DAILY DOUBLE
What are Central and Mountain times?
200
This man is often called the "Father of Texas" because he led settlers to the region and established the first Anglo-American settlement there.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
In which state does the Rio Grande begin? Where does it empty?
What is Colorado and the Gulf of Mexico?
200
What is the largest city in Arizona and the largest in New Mexico? Also, what modern convenience allowed these areas to grow?
What is Phoenix and Albuquerque? What is air-conditioning?
300
What oil spill in 2010 caused major ecological damage to the region? What catastrophic hurricane battered the region in 2005?
What is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? What is Hurricane Katrina?
300
Name the following important figures:
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1) Who is Harriet Tubman?
2) Who is Booker T. Washington?
3) Who is George Washington Carver?
4) Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
What are the two accomplishments, as outlined in the chapter, of this man?
Of course, these are just a small sample of his many important historical contributions!
Additionally, what was his name and where was he born?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Born in Baltimore, and particularly famous for being the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education case, and for becoming the First African American Supreme Court Justice.
300
What are the 4 Gulf Coast states?
What is Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana?
300
What European country colonized a portion of the region? What was the name of the religious settlements that they put in place?
What was Spain, and what were missions?
300
In what year did Mexico gain control of Texas? What laws were passed that made many Texans upset?
What was 1821? Mexico raised taxes and sought to limit the number of U.S. settlers.
300
What is the name of the gardening method that uses rocks and desert plants instead of grass?
What is xeriscaping?
300
Due to the relatively dry climate of Southwestern states, what do farmers rely on to be able to water their crops?
What are irrigation systems?
400
In what year was the first English settlement founded and what was it called?
DAILY DOUBLE
In what year did Ponce de Leon explore Florida & when was St. Augustine founded?
What is Jamestown, founded in 1607?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is 1513 (Ponce de Leon) & 1565 (St. Augustine)?
400
What THREE Native American groups were named in the chapter, as having inhabited the region previous to European colonization?
What are the Powhatan, the Cherokee, and the Tequesta?
400
What are the 5 Atlantic Coast states?
What are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland?
400
What are the 4 Inland South states?
What are West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas?
400
What is the difference between a plateau, a mesa, and a butte?
What are plateaus are vast, elevated areas covering thousands of miles?
Mesas are smaller, isolated, flat-topped tablelands wider than they are tall.
Buttes are narrow, steep-sided towers, taller than they are wide, formed by further erosion of a mesa.
400
What was the name of the Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, and what were its terms?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The terms of the of treaty allowed the U.S. to gain a large swath of western territory (Mexican Cession) for which they had to pay $15 million to Mexico.
400
What oil discover brought many workers to the region, and in what year?
This discovery has been credited with launching the modern petroleum age.
What is the Spindletop oil discovery of 1901?
400
What is the purpose of a refinery?
What is a refinery turns crude oil into gasoline and other products?
500
Define the following three landforms:
1) Piedmont
2) Coastal Plains
3) Plateaus
1) What is hilly land east of the mountains?
2) What is flat land along coast (covering much of the region)?
3) What is flat high land?
500
Civil War Fast Facts:
1) For what reason was the Civil War started?
2) What was the name of the "country" formed by the Southern states?
3) Who presided over this "country"?
4) In which Southeastern state did the Civil War officially begin & in what year?
5) In what year did the war end?
1) The Civil War began over the question of slavery. The South feared that Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery, so they broke off from the United States.
2) What is the Confederacy?
3) Who was Jefferson Davis?
4) What is South Carolina in 1861?
5) What is 1865?
500
What is the name of the pictured bridge, one of the longest above water? Also, what is its approximate length?
What is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which is approximately 23 miles long (according to our textbook)?
In fact, the Causeway is actually 23.87 miles long!
500
Florida Fast Facts:
1) What is the name of this large wetland ecosystem?
2) What types of islands are the Florida Keys?
3) Florida is part of a larger region that stretches all the way to California, known for its warm climate and mild winters; covering the southern third of the United States. What is this region called?
4) Where do naval aviators train?
5) What is the name of the neighborhood in Miami where many Cuban people have settled?
1) What are the Everglades?
2) What are coral islands?
3) What is the Sun Belt?
4) Where is Pensacola, Florida?
5) What is Little Havana?
500
Name and describe the differences between the 3 Native American groups mentioned in the chapter.
Who were the Pueblo, who farmed corn and lived in adobe villages?
Who were the Caddo, who also farmed corn but lived in grass-covered houses?
Who were the Apache, who were nomads who hunted animals?
500
Mexican-American War Fast Facts:
1) What was the name of the famous battle that took place in Texas in 1836?
2) In what year did Texas join the United States?
3) Who was the U.S. President during the Mexican-American War?
4) What were the two rivers that the U.S. and Mexico disagreed upon where the border began?
5) In what year did the war end, with the capture of Mexico City?
1) What is the Battle of the Alamo?
2) When was 1845?
3) Who was James K. Polk?
4) What were the Rio Grande and the Nueces River?
5) When was 1848?
500
Name the following places of interest in the Southwest:
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1) What is the Johnson Space Center?
2) What is Carlsbad Caverns?
3) What is the Capulin Volcano National Monument?
4) What is the Kitt Peak National Observatory?
5) What is Fountain Hills?
500
Who was the first American to explore the Grand Canyon, and in what year?
Who was John Wesley Powell in 1869?