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Social Studies Chapter 4

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  • What state's loblolly pines make it a leader in the timber industry?
    Georgia
  • In front of this tunnel in West Virginia stands a statue of John Henry and marks the site of where a popular legend began.
    Great Bend Tunnel
  • This president helped write The Declaration of Indepence and his home, Monticello, is a Virginia landmark.
    Thomas Jefferson
  • Name the first president of the US who called his home Mount Vernon?
    George Washington
  • Who developed the first powered airplaine in 1900?
    Wright Brothers
  • What baseball player became the first black player to join an all-white major league team in 1947?
    Jackie Robinson
  • In what state can you find the preserved Civil War Battlefields at Richmond, Petersburg, Manassas, and Fredericksburg?
    Virginia
  • Almost all of West Virginia's land is ______________________.
    mountainous
  • What group of people migrated into Florida from Georgia and Alabama and are known for living in chickees and their stomping dances?
    Siminoles
  • What two countries do most of the immigrants from Florida come from?
    Cuba and Haiti
  • What state in known as the Tar Heel State because of the tar it makes with its pine trees?
    North Carolina
  • What state host of the annual pony swim?
    Virginia
  • Where is the Capitol Building, where Congress makes its laws, located?
    Washington, DC
  • The agriculture of the Southeast depended on this in past centuries.
    slavery
  • What state is home to the Everglades, which contain nine different habitats and many endangered animals?
    Florida
  • What are the major rivers in the Southeast?
    Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi
  • What state depended on farming rice, indigo, and cotton for two centuries before the Civil War?
    South Carolina
  • What state is home to the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest brick lighthouse in the nation?
    North Carolina
  • Name the memorial that honors the US president that helped free the slaves during the civil war.
    Lincoln Memorial
  • Shipbuilding is an important industry in this state.
    Virginia
  • Name the unique people group in SC who have preserved their West African tradition..
    Gullah
  • What two brothers came the Georgia colony in 1735 as missionaries and later founded the Methodist Church?
    John and Charles Wesley
  • Who was the first English child born in North America?
    Virginia Dare
  • In what state can you visit the half a milion acrea Okefenokee Swamp?
    Georgia