Semester Exam
Southern Culture
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Terms. Know what is significant about each of the following terms, based on our study of
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Little Dixie
Black Belt
Mason-Dixon Line
swamp
New South
Deep South
Bible Belt
Cotton Kingdom
Mississippi Delta
growing season
tobacco
cotton
indentured servant
Bacon’s Rebellion
yeoman farmer
plantation
planter
cotton gin
boll weevil
blues
folk music
race records
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phonograph
slide
sharecropping
Jim Crow
“separate but equal”
Great Migration
Dockery Plantation
Names
1. John Rolfe
2. John Smith
3. George Washington
Carver
4. W.C. Handy
5. Robert Johnson
6. Muddy Waters
7. Po’ Monkey
8. Eric Clapton
9. Rosa Parks
10. Little Rock Nine
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juke (jook) joint
chitlin’ circuit
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Green Bullet
rock & roll
kudzu
opossum
“playing ‘possum”
marsupial
armadillo
Spanish moss
epiphyte
jubilee
Lost Cause
“moonlight and
magnolias”
karst
periodical cicada
Ivory-billed
woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
paternalism
lynching
segregation
literacy test
poll tax
amalgamation
Peculiar Institution
Clotilde
Black Codes
11. Dr. Martin Luther King
12. Michael Donald
13. Chaney, Goodman,
Schwerner
14. George C. Wallace
15. Jimmie Rodgers
16. Carter Family
17. Roy Acuff
18. Bill Monroe
19. Hank Williams, Sr.
20. Elvis Presley
59. Ku Klux Klan
60. NAACP
61. Montgomery Bus
Boycott
62. Bloody Sunday
63. Scottsboro Case
64. lunch counter sit-ins
65. Freedom Rides
66. Grand Ole Opry
67. western swing
68. honky tonk
69. bluegrass
70. banjo
71. Ryman Auditorium
72. Nashville Sound
73. pedal steel guitar
74. outlaw country
75. country-rock
76. Fender Telecaster
77. evangelism
78. King James Version
79. “hellfire & brimstone”
80. Second Great
Awakening
81. spirituals (songs)
82. fundamentalism
83. serpent handling
84. visionary art
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Patsy Cline
Waylon & Willie
Gram Parsons
Nudie Cohn
Dolly Parton
Reba McEntyre
Garth Brooks
George Went Hensley
Fisk Jubilees
Howard Finster
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Why is southern Florida sometimes NOT considered a part of the South?
What region of the South can be considered tropical?
Areas of low country, especially good for growing rice, can be found where in the South?
What two types of forests dominate the South?
What causes repeated fluctuations between warmer and colder temperatures during Southern
winters?
What two events led to a cotton boom in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
During the colonial and antebellum periods, were most Southerners planters or yeoman farmers?
Why was slavery so important to the antebellum Southern economy?
What were some of the hardships faced by slaves during the antebellum period?
How would the treatment of slaves differ from plantation to yeoman farm?
Why did Enterprise, Alabama erect a monument to the boll weevil?
What three conditions make the South ideal for agriculture?
What state is best known for their horses?
What states are major tobacco producers?
Which state is known as the Peach State?
In what state is most of the South’s citrus crop grown?
Under what conditions is rice grown?
From what part of the sugar cane does the sugar come?
What was the single possession that was essential for “economic and social well-being” in the
colonial South?
What invention/innovation revolutionized Southern farming during the 20th century?
To where does the blues trace its origins?
What was one of the primary African contributions to the sound of the blues?
When did the blues evolve into the form we know today?
Why was the guitar the most common instrument in early blues?
Who helped spark renewed interest in the blues during the 1960s?
Why were traveling blues musicians often seen as troublemakers?
Compare/contrast Delta/acoustic blues with Chicago/electric blues.
What two types of forests dominate the Southern landscape?
What feature of Southern coastal weather is rather unique?
Briefly describe the Southern climate.
When was the last confirmed sighting of the Ivory-billed woodpecker?
Why is it important to maintain cave ecologies that are clean and pollution-free?
What is the Ivory-bill's favorite habitat?
How are carbonic caves formed?
Race, as we know it, is a concept that developed when and where?.
What groups were involved in most racial conflicts in the colonial South?
What Supreme Court ruling was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education?
What two late eighteenth century factors led to an increased demand for cotton and African
slaves?
To what continents does country music can trace its roots?
What two inventions/innovations helped introduce millions of Americans to country music during
the early twentieth century?
What impact did artists like Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire have on country music?
What are the roots of organized religion in the South?
Describe, in general, the shared characteristics of most Native American religions.
What nation first introduced Christianity into the South?
What is the sole reference point for religious beliefs and practices for most Southerners?
What is the most widespread religious faith in the South?
What is the most populous Christian denomination in the South?
In the South, where is Roman Catholicism most prominent?
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What impact did the Civil Rights movement have on Southern Catholics.
Generally speaking, what two rites/sacraments does Southern Protestantism focus on?
What are some general characteristics of religion in the South?
Most Southern communities named after Biblical places get their names from what part of the
Bible?
52. What impact did secession and the Civil War have on a number of larger Protestant
denominations?
53. What role did organized religion play for African Americans after the Civil War?
54. What was the holiness/Pentecostal movement of the early 1900s?
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17 states & capitals
Appalachian Mountains
Black Belt
Chesapeake Bay
Everglades
Florida Keys
Gulf of Mexico
Low Country
Memphis
Mississippi Delta
Mississippi River
Mobile Bay
New Orleans
Ohio River
Outer Banks
Ozark Mountains
Piedmont
Sea Islands
Tidewater
Merry Christmas!
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