Southeast Region Vocabulary

land that has water almost all around it

• Peninsula

• Piedmont

• Fall line

• wetland

low-lying land where the water level is always near or above the surface of the land

**The Everglades

• peninsula

• wetland

• piedmont

• fall line

an area of high land at or near the food of a mountain

• peninsula

• wetland

• piedmont

• fall line

a place where the river drops from higher to lower land

• peninsula

• wetland

• piedmont

• fall line

The United States of America

• Union

• secede

• Confederacy

• Civil War

to leave

• Union

• secede

• Confederacy

• Civil War

The Confederate States of America, a new country that was formed by the Southern States that seceded from the Union

• Union

• secede

• Confederacy

• Civil War

A war between groups of people in the same country

• Union

• secede

• Confederacy

• Civil War

a huge farm where tobacco, cotton, rice, sugarcane, or indigo were the main crops grown

• plantation

• slavery

• The Missouri Compromise

• cash crop

the practice of making one person the property of another person

• plantation

• slavery

• The Missouri Compromise

• cash crop