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Southeastern United States Global cards
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03/11/2016

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Term
Cotton
Definition
1) Plantation
2) Grew by slaves
3) Use to make cloth
4) Grown in the south
5) Cash Crop
6) Grows in tropical or subtropical climates
7) Needs around 40-60 inches of rainfall per year
Term
Tobacco
Definition
1) Plantation
2) Use to smoke or chew
3) Grown in the south
4) Cash Crop
Term
Mardi Gras
Definition
1) Festival In New Orleans
2) Home of Jazz
3) Holiday
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
1) Was President of the United States
2) President during the civil war
3) Made the Emancipation Proclamation
Term
Jazz
Definition
1) Genre of Music
2) Invented in New Orleans
3) Changed between the time
Term
Union
Definition
1) Group against slavery
2) North of the United States
3) Fought for freedom
Term
Confederacy
Definition
1) Group against people against slavery
2) Wanted to keep the slavery
3) South of the United States
Term
Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
1) Made by Abraham Lincoln in 1863
2) Sue against slavery
3) Freedom for slaves
Term
Sharecropping
Definition
1) Used by people who were slaves before.
2) Land owner borrow land to grown crops
3) Used by people who didn't have more job skills
Term
Cash Crop
Definition
1) Cotton
2) Tobacco
3) Crops to make money
Term
Slavery
Definition
1) No pay
2) Force to work
3) Terminated in 1863
Term
Civil War
Definition
1) Fight between the north against the south of the United States
2) War for freedom of slaves
3) Stopped in 1865
Term
Louisiana
Definition
1) Land of New Orleans
2) Part of the United States
3) State
Term
Cajun
Definition
1) French Canadian
2) Mainly living in Louisiana
3) Made in the 17th century
4) From the word "Acadian"
5) Catolics
Term
Creole
Definition
1) From a Portuguese word
2) Son of a slave and a housemaster
3) From Louisiana
Term
Fort Sumter
Definition
1) Fort in the South United States
2) fight happened here between the north and the south
3) Surrendered
Term
Robert E. Lee
Definition
1) Leader of the Confederacy
2) Didn't want more men to die
3) Surrendered in 1865
Term
Richmond
Definition
1) Capital of the Confederate States of America
2) White house of the Confederacy
3) Union Soldiers captured Richmond in 1865
Term
Plantation
Definition
1) Cotton
2) Tobacco
3) Sugar Cane
Term
Job Skills
Definition
1) Farmer
2) Hunter
3) Gatherer
Term
Harvest
Definition
1) crops
2) Cotton
3) wheat
Term
Cloth
Definition
1) You use it
2) woven or felted fabric
3) Made from Cotton
Term
Folk Music
Definition
1) Traditional Music
2) Culture
3) Native
Term
Textile Mills
Definition
1) Make cloth
2) Big machines
3) use cotton
Term
Advantages of the South
Definition
1) Many good army generals
2) Brave soldiers
Term
Advantages of the North
Definition
1) More people
2) More soldiers
3) More Railroads
4) More money
5) More factories
Term
Losses in war
Definition
1) Houses
2) Cities
3) Plantations
Term
Triangular Trade routes
Definition
1) Slaves from Africa to the Caribbean Islands and the Southern States
2) Molasses & Sugar from Caribbean Islands to New England
3) Cotton from Southern States to New England
4) Cloth from New England to Africa
5) Rum from New England to Africa
Term
Sediment
Definition
1) Liquids
Term
Watershed
Definition
1) An Area of land that separates water flowing on different rivers, basins or seas.
Term
Tributary
Definition
1) Does not flow directly into a sea or ocean
1) Affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river main stem.
Term
reservation
Definition
1)to reserve something
2)to reserve to use it later
Term
Nomadic
Definition
A person that moves from place to place.
Term
Agribusiness
Definition
agriculture conducted to do business
Term
Supply
Definition
inventory
Term
secede
Definition
to give up
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