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South East Region
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Source | A place where the river begins. |
| Mouth | A place where a river empties into an ocean,lake or larger river. |
| Tributary | Any river that flows into another, larger river. |
| Port | A place where sships load and unload there goods. |
| Growing Season | The time of year when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow in a certain place. |
| Cash Crop | A crop that is grown to be sold for money. |
| Coal | A mineral found under the earth's surface, that is burned as a fuel. |
| Dam | A wall built across a river to control the flow of water or creat a lake. |
| Council | A group of people who meet and talk to make decesions. |
| Trail of Tears | The forced movement of Cherokee and some other Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma. |
| Declaration of Independence | A Document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, explaining why the thirteen colonies should be free from British rule. |
| Civil rights | The rights of the people to be treated equally under teh law. |
| Segregation | Laws that separate one group from another. |
| Syllabary | A system of writing in which wich each syllable of a word is represented by a symbol. |
| Sequoyah | A Cherokee Indian who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of independence. |
| Harriet Tubman | Helped 300 slaves escape to freedon on the undergound raildroad. |
| Jefferson Davis | He was the President of The Confederacy |
| Rosa Parks | She refused to give her bus seat to a white man. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | He was a civil rights leader, who worked for equal rights for African Americans. |
| Civil War | From 1861-1865 North and South fought over slavery. |
| Abolotion | An end to slavery, Abraham Lincoln wanted to end slavery so he wrote the Emancepation Procloamtion. |
| AL | Alabama |
| AR | Arkansas |
| FL | Florida |
| GA | Georgia |
| KY | Kentucky |
| LA | Louisana |
| MS | Mississippi |
| NC | North Carolina |
| SC | South Carolina |
| TN | Tennessee |
| VA | Virginia |
| WV | West Virginia |