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100
Florida is mostly this type of area.
What is a wetland?
100
Leader of the Union army during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
When the Wilderness Road opened.
What opened in the year 1775?
100
Most of the Southeast joined the Confederacy when he was president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Material added to the soil to make crops grow.
What is fertilizer?
200
An area of high land near the foot of mountains.
What is a piedmont?
200
Leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
New Orleans, Louisiana is located along this gulf.
What city grew around a port along the Gulf of Mexico?
200
Someone who is forced to do work without pay.
What is a slave?
200
A major industry in the Southeast related to theme parks.
What is tourism?
300
They used soil to grow corn, beans, and other crops. They used trees to build homes and canoes. They used wood, stone, and animal bones to make tools and weapons. They used animals for food. They used rivers for drinking, food, and transportation.
What is how Native Americans in the Southeast use natural resources?
300
He planned and negotiated the Missouri Compromise in Congress.
Who is Henry Clay?
300
This Native American tribe lived in the Appalachian region of the Southeast in the 1500s.
What are the Cherokee?
300
This Missouri Compromise did this.
What is kept a balance between free and slave states?
300
People could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains until this was discovered.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
400
They cause damage to trees and buildings, and flooding in the Southeast.
What are a hurricane's affects?
400
He developed the Cherokee writing system.
Who is Sequoyah?
400
Most plantations in the Southeast east grew this.
What are cash crops?
400
After the Civil War they were freed from slavery and were able to rent land to grow crops. Some also moved to cities to find jobs.
How did the end of the Civil War change life for most African Americans?
400
This increased after ports started using container shipping.
What is international trade?
500
A path through the Cumberland Gap for wagons that allowed settlers to cross the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Wilderness Road?
500
He cleared a path through the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
500
In 1820, this kept the balance between free and salve states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
The north is based on business and not agriculture and did not need them.
Why didn't the North need/want slaves?