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Southeast Region Quiz #2 Study Game

Important People

Question: Southern women who wrote booklets and made speeches to abolish slavery.
Answer: Who are the Grimke sisters?

Question: The explorer who first explored the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Answer: Who is Robert La Salle?

Question: The third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?

Question: Backwoodsman and pioneer who developed the Wilderness Road to help settlers move West.
Answer: Who is Daniel Boone?

Question: 16th President of the United States who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves.
Answer: Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Civil Rights

Question: Equal protection under the law
Answer: What is Civil Rights?

Question: The act of keeping separate because of individual differences.
Answer: What is segregation?

Question: Person who stood up for her rights, sparked the bus boycott and became a famous Civil Rights leader.
Answer: Who is Rosa Parks?

Question: The most famous Civil Rights leader who believed in peaceful protest.
Answer: Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Question: Laws which continued to make life unfair for black people after the Civil War.
Answer: What are the Jim Crow laws?

Civil War

Question: Name given to the North side in the Civil War.
Answer: What is the Union?

Question: Name given to the Southern States in the Civil War.
Answer: What is the Confederacy or The Confederate States of America?

Question: War that is fought between states or groups WITHIN the same country.
Answer: What is a Civil War?

Question: The action that the Southern states did that was one of reasons for the Civil War
Answer: What is to SECEDE ?

Question: The most well-known reason for the Civil War.
Answer: What is to abolish slavery and keep it from spreading to other states?

Big Ideas

Question: A way of making a decision where everyone involved has to agree.
Answer: What is consensus?

Question: A person who believes slavery is wrong and works to end it.
Answer: What is an abolitionist?

Question: The time period after the US Civil War when the people of the south rebuilt their homes, businesses and lives.
Answer: What is Reconstruction?

Question: The act of owning another person and treating them as property
Answer: What is slavery?

Question: The action of pulling out or leaving.
Answer: What is to secede?

Famous Places

Question: The first Spanish settlement in the United States.
Answer: What is St. Augustine?

Question: The location of the "Lost Colony."
Answer: What is Roanoke Island, North Carolina?

Question: The first successful British colony in North America.

Answer: What is Jamestown, Virginia.

Question: The Mississippi River Valley and all of it's tributaries named for the French king.

Answer: What is Louisiana?

Question: The name of the state discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon.

Answer: What is Florida?