An area of low land that is partly covered with slow moving or Stillwater
Wetland
One of the largest swamps in the United States
Okefenokee
Wetland marshes in swamps in southern Florida is called what
The Everglades
Mountains that run through the middle of Southeast
The Appalachian mountains
An area of high land at the foot of mountains
Piedmont
A place where rivers drop from higher to lower land causing waterfalls and Rapids to form
A fall line
A plateau in Kentucky that is west of the Appalachians
Cumberland Plateau
A plateau in Arkansas
Ozark plateau
A river in the Central Plains that often floods
Mississippi river
Why did early settlers form cities along the fall line
Because the fall line blocked them from traveling upstream by boat
The time during which the weather is warm enough for plants to grow
Growing season
A huge tropical storm
Hurricane
What type of climate does the Southeast have
Warm, sunny climate
What makes the southeast a good place for farming
Sunny climate, lots of rainfall, and flatland
Materials that are added to soil to make it more fertile
Fertilizers
A place in Maryland and Virginia that provides fish, oysters, clams and crabs
Chesapeake Bay
And early settlement built by the Spanish in 1565
Saint Augustine in Florida
The place founded in Virginia by the English and 1607
Jamestown
City built by the French on the Mississippi river in1718
New Orleans
Large farms
Plantations
Making one person the property of another
Slavery
An opening in the appalacian Mountains
Cumberland gap
Why was the Cumberland gap and important
It made it easier for settlers to start farms inland
Crops raised to be sold
Cash crops
What were the two major economic regions
The south based on agriculture
And the north made up of small farms, manufacturing and other businesses
Who came up with A slavery plan known as the Missouri compromise
Henry Clay
What does it mean to end slavery
Abolish
What is the union
The United States
To leave
Secede
The 11 Southern states that decided to secede from the union
Confederacy
The place where fighting broke out between Confederate and Union soldiers in 1861
Charleston South Carolina
Leader of the confederate army
Robert E Lee
The Union General
Ulysses s grant
A Cherokee leader who developed a writing system for the Cherokee language
Sequoyah
Fairness
Justice
The rights of citizens to equal treatment
Civil rights
One of the largest busiest ports in United States in Maryland
Port of Baltimore
Colonial port cities along the Atlantic coast
Baltimore, Maryland
Charleston, South Carolina
Savanna, Georgia
New Orleans, Louisiana
Two of the nations largest cruise ship ports
Miami and port Everglades
Natural resources used to make products
Raw materials
Trade among different countries
International trade
A good/ product brought into one country from another country
Import
A good shipped from one country to be sold in another
Export
What is land that is almost surrounded by water
Peninsula