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Chapter 13 The Southeast Region

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are examples of an area of land covered by water?

a)

marsh

b)

swamp

c)

plateau

2.

What might be found growing in a marsh?

a)

sweet grass

b)

ferns

c)

orchids

3.

What is the largest swamp in North America and found in Georgia and Florida?

a)

Natchez

b)

Okefenokee

c)

Mississippi

4.

What lives in a swamp or marsh?

a)

alligators and fish

b)

snake

c)

frogs and toads

5.

Who were some of the people who lived in the Southeast in the earliest days?

a)

European colonists

b)

Natchez

c)

Seminoles

6.

Who lived in thatched-roof homes called chickees and used cypress canoes?

a)

Indian peoples in the Florida area

b)

Natchez peoples in the Louisiana area

7.

What was the first English settlement in America called?

a)

Houma

b)

Jamestown

c)

Florida

8.

What was fought in the first colonies of the US?

a)

The Great Awakening

b)

The Revolutionary War

9.

What changed religion in the South?

a)

The Great Awakening

b)

Indian Removal Act

10.

What are things that characterized Southern life?

a)

Preference of farming over trade and manufacturing

b)

hospitality, politeness and good manners

c)

all of the above

11.

What shows the importance of the ocean to business in the Southeast?

a)

Ports for shipping goods

b)

fishing industry

c)

tourism

12.

What contribute to the economy of the Southeast?

a)

Manufacturing

b)

tourism

c)

banking

d)

agriculture

13.

What are songs by slaves that often had ideas from Scripture?

a)

Seminole

b)

spirituals

c)

piedmont

14.

What is the Indian tribe that was known for its cypress canoes?

a)

Seminole

b)

Natchez

c)

Cherokee

15.

Who was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?

a)

George Washington

b)

Cherokee

c)

Choctaw

16.

What is the reason most Indians of the Southeast had to move west?

a)

Spirituals

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

The Great Awakening

17.

What is land by the sea made up of sandy beaches in some parts and marshes or swamps in other parts?

a)

Piedmont

b)

coastland

c)

coastal plain

18.

What is flatland stretching up from the coast?

a)

Coastland

b)

Plateau

c)

Coastal plain

19.

What is flat or hilly land beyond the mountains?

a)

Piedmont

b)

Plateau

c)

Coastal plain

20.

What is foothills between the coastal plain and the mountains called?

a)

Plateau

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal plain

21.

What is the longest river in the US?

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Nile River

22.

What are some natural resources in the Southeast that are used to produce energy?

a)

coal

b)

natural gas

c)

oil

d)

all of the above