Southeast Information

How does silt change a river

• forming islands

• forming riverbeds

• making sandbars

• making mud

What 2 states does the most of the nation's coal come from?

• Kentucky

• Florida

• Virginia

• West Virginia

What is another name for farming?

• sharecropping

• agriculture

• dry farming

• gardening

What is a river that flows into a much longer river called?

• delta

• tributary

• canal

• ocean

There was a law passed that prevented children from working where?

• coal mines

• farms

• schools

• railroads

Who did Sequoyah show his new alphabet to?

• familes

• friends

• council

• board

Who from the House of Burgess did not like the colonists complaints?

• The president

• the royal governor

• the senator

• the colonist leader

Where did slaves work?

• farms

• corn plantations

• cotton plantations

• what plantations

What document freed the slaves?

• The Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Bill of Rights

What was the first capital of the Virginia colony?

• Jamestown

• Williamsburg

• Richmond

• Raleigh