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1
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An area of low land that is partly covered with slow moving or Stillwater

A

Wetland

2
Q

One of the largest swamps in the United States

A

Okefenokee

3
Q

Wetland marshes in swamps in southern Florida is called what

A

The Everglades

4
Q

Mountains that run through the middle of Southeast

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The Appalachian mountains

5
Q

An area of high land at the foot of mountains

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Piedmont

6
Q

A place where rivers drop from higher to lower land causing waterfalls and Rapids to form

A

A fall line

7
Q

A plateau in Kentucky that is west of the Appalachians

A

Cumberland Plateau

8
Q

A plateau in Arkansas

A

Ozark plateau

9
Q

A river in the Central Plains that often floods

A

Mississippi river

10
Q

Why did early settlers form cities along the fall line

A

Because the fall line blocked them from traveling upstream by boat

11
Q

The time during which the weather is warm enough for plants to grow

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Growing season

12
Q

A huge tropical storm

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Hurricane

13
Q

What type of climate does the Southeast have

A

Warm, sunny climate

14
Q

What makes the southeast a good place for farming

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Sunny climate, lots of rainfall, and flatland

15
Q

Materials that are added to soil to make it more fertile

A

Fertilizers

16
Q

A place in Maryland and Virginia that provides fish, oysters, clams and crabs

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Chesapeake Bay

17
Q

And early settlement built by the Spanish in 1565

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Saint Augustine in Florida

18
Q

The place founded in Virginia by the English and 1607

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Jamestown

19
Q

City built by the French on the Mississippi river in1718

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New Orleans

20
Q

Large farms

A

Plantations

21
Q

Making one person the property of another

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Slavery

22
Q

An opening in the appalacian Mountains

A

Cumberland gap

23
Q

Why was the Cumberland gap and important

A

It made it easier for settlers to start farms inland

24
Q

Crops raised to be sold

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Cash crops

25
Q

What were the two major economic regions

A

The south based on agriculture

And the north made up of small farms, manufacturing and other businesses

26
Q

Who came up with A slavery plan known as the Missouri compromise

A

Henry Clay

27
Q

What does it mean to end slavery

A

Abolish

28
Q

What is the union

A

The United States

29
Q

To leave

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Secede

30
Q

The 11 Southern states that decided to secede from the union

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Confederacy

31
Q

The place where fighting broke out between Confederate and Union soldiers in 1861

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Charleston South Carolina

32
Q

Leader of the confederate army

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Robert E Lee

33
Q

The Union General

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Ulysses s grant

34
Q

A Cherokee leader who developed a writing system for the Cherokee language

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Sequoyah

35
Q

Fairness

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Justice

36
Q

The rights of citizens to equal treatment

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Civil rights

37
Q

One of the largest busiest ports in United States in Maryland

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Port of Baltimore

38
Q

Colonial port cities along the Atlantic coast

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Baltimore, Maryland
Charleston, South Carolina
Savanna, Georgia
New Orleans, Louisiana

39
Q

Two of the nations largest cruise ship ports

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Miami and port Everglades

40
Q

Natural resources used to make products

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Raw materials

41
Q

Trade among different countries

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International trade

42
Q

A good/ product brought into one country from another country

A

Import

43
Q

A good shipped from one country to be sold in another

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Export

44
Q

What is land that is almost surrounded by water

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Peninsula