Vocabulary
The part of the year when temperatures are warm enough for crops to grow
What is a growing season?
This body of water forms the eastern edge of the Southeast region
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The warm climate makes this season long in the Southeast
What is the growing season?
Conflicts over slavery were the main causes of this war
What is the Civil War?
The capital of Alabama
What is Montgomery?
A large farm or estate
What is a plantation?
Rolling hills covered with forests
What is a piedmont?
This alerts people living near the river when the water rises
What is the National Weather Service?
European explorers had these items that Native Americans did not
What are guns and steel armor?
Baton Rouge
What is the capital of Louisiana?
What is a piedmont?
These animals are found in the wetlands, rivers, and canals in Florida and Louisiana
What are alligators?
This forms when warm air from the ocean hits the cooler air above
What is a hurricane?
This city started as a railroad center in the 1830s. Today, it is home to the busiest airport in the world
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
Raleigh
What is the capital of North Carolina?
Horses, pigs, sheep, and cattle that are raised on a farm
What are livestock?
The largest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
The flat land, warm temperatures, and amount of rainfall found here make it an ideal place for farming in the Southeast
What is the Coastal Plain?
This person declared the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
The capital of Florida
What is Tallahassee?
The African Americans in the Southeast who have kept much of their African heritage
Who are the Gullah?
These are groups of long, narrow islands that lie between the mainland and the ocean
What are barrier islands?
A dirt or concrete wall built to keep water from overflowing river banks
What is a levee?
Zora Neale Hurston, a famous Southern author, covered this topic in her books
What is the African American experience?
Jackson
What is the capital of Mississippi?