| A | B |
|---|
| Coastal Plains | Flat low elevated land with wetlands boardering the Atlantic Ocean to the west |
| Piedmont | Land with rich soil that boarders the Fall Line to the west |
| Fall Line | The border between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain where many waterfalls are located thanks to the change in elevation. |
| Appalacian Mountain Range | The mountains that border the Piedmont to the west. |
| Cherokee | Native American tribe found in the Southwest that moved further west when settlers came. |
| food the Cherokee ate | corn, squash, beans, deer, turkey, fish |
| means of traveling for the Cherokee | canoes, walking |
| Cherokee homes | wood and bark structures |
| Cherokee government | consensus, or everyone agreeing |
| Sequoah | Cherokee man who invented an alphabet for his tribe |
| Trail of Tears | the journey the Cherokee took when they were forced off of their land by the American government |
| Spanish explorer who discovered Florida and founded St. Augustine | Juan Ponce DeLeon |
| Spanish explorer who sailed around the Southern part of the Americas | Hernando de Soto |
| French explorer who sailed the Great Lakes and the Mississippi | Robert LaSalle |
| Roanoke Island | the lost colony of England |
| Jamestown | the first sucessful colony of England led by John Smith |
| Confederacy | the Southern States who were fighting to keep states rules and slavery during the Civil War |
| Union | the Northern States who were fighting to keep the states together and against slavery during the Civil War |
| April 1861 to April 1865 | The Time Line of the Civil War |
| secede | to separate from an established government |
| Abraham Lincoln | the president during the Civil War |
| reconstruction | the time period after the Civil war when the South had to rebuild itself |
