Blast from the Past Quiz 12

When new territories joined as states, the northern states wanted them to be:

• slave states

• free states

___________________________ region is located west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

• Tidewater

• Appalachian Plateau

• Valley and Ridge

• Piedmont

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Many early American Indians lived along rivers which made for good:

• proximity to Jamestown

• farming

• water travel

• fishing

• weather

What is the natural border between the Coastal Plain and Piedmont called?

• Appalachian Mountains

• James River

• Cumberland Gap

• Fall Line

The ____________________ was the Union Ironclad.

• Monitor

• Merrimack

The Dismal Swamp is located in the ___________________________ region.

• Tidewater

• Appalachian Plateau

• Valley and Ridge

• Piedmont

• Blue Ridge

Why did cities grow-up along the fall line?

• Native American attacks

• rapids prevented further travel up river

• location near Jamestown

• proximity to Atlantic Ocean

Who accepted surrender Appomattox Courthouse at the end of the Civil War?

• Union General Ulysses S. Grant

• Confederate General Thomas Jackson

• Union General Ambrose Burnside

• Confederate General Robert E. Lee

____________ are a way of teaching American Indians and visitors about American Indians culture past and present.

• long houses

• pow wows

• cultural landscape

___________________________ region is located west of the Fall Line.

• Tidewater

• Appalachian Plateau

• Valley and Ridge

• Piedmont