Social Studies Chapter 6
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- Hernando de Soto
- he was one of the first European explorers to cross the Mississippi River
- Cash Crops grown in SE & Gulf States
- cotton, rice, indigo, sugar cane
- Southeast & Gulf States
- South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
- International Trade
- trade between two different countries
- Plantation
- huge farm
- Spaniards explored the SE & Gulf States because
- they were searching for gold and silver
- Tropics
- a band of warm climate close to the equator
- Cash Crop
- crop people sell rather than use it themselves
- Conditions that make farming possible are
- water, rich soil, good climate
- Abolish
- to end
- Secede
- to leave
- Growing Season
- time which the weather is warm enough for plants to grow
- Territory
- a place owned by a country, Virgin Islands
- Swamp
- low, wetland where trees and bushes grow
- Mainland
- continent of part of a continent nearest to an island
- Manufacturing
- North
- National Trade
- trade among states or regions of the same country
- Slavery
- illegal in the North, legal in the South
- Food processing
- cooking, canning, drying, or freezing of food and the preparing of it for the market
- Pulp
- soft mixture of things to make paper
- Union
- the North during the Civil War, U.S.
- Fertilizer
- materials added to the soil to make it more fertile
- Fast-growing Industries in the SE & Gulf States
- tourism, high-tech, space, engineering, research
- Commonwealth
- territory that governs itself, Puerto Rico
- Sunbelt
- wide area of the southern U.S. that has a mild climate all year
- Emancipation Proclamation
- freed the slaves
- Abraham Lincoln
- President of the U.S. during the Civil War
- Barrier Islands
- low, narrow island near a coast
- Ponce de Leon
- the first Spanish explorer to set foot in the U.S., he founded St. Augustine
- Farming
- South on the flat, rich land
- Civil War
- war between one country
- Key West
- the largest city in the Florida Keys
- Raw Material
- resource that can be used to manufacture a product
- Confederacy
- the South during the Civil War