Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The South
The South
The South
Southern States
Capitals
Arkansas Little Rock
Louisiana Baton Rouge
Kentucky Frankfort
Tennessee Nashville
Mississippi - Jackson
Alabama Montgomery
Virginia Richmond
North Carolina Raleigh
South Carolina Columbia
Georgia Atlanta
Florida - Tallahassee
General characteristics
General characteristics
General characteristics
Souths economy
depends on agriculture.
It produced and
exported rice, sugar
and especially cotton.
Slavery
Slavery
Slavery
Songs, stories,
religion, community
Whites
The War
The War
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (18651870) ended slavery, made blacks citizens, and gave black
Americans the right to vote.
But blacks did not become equal with the whites: they had no
property and racism was widespread.
By the early 20th century, all Southern states had laws imposing
segregation.
Gained strength in
the 1950s, after
WW2.
Rosa Parks
The Montgomery
bus boycott 1955
Minister of a Baptist
church
Advocated non-violent
protest: sit-ins, marches,
registration drives
Early History
Steamboats
Steamboat from
Pittsburgh to New
Orleans still exists.
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Elvis Presley
New Orleans
New Orleans
New
History
Sightseeing
Unique system of
giving directions
Food
boiled crawfish
gumbo
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
hit New Orleans on
29th August 2005.
Florida
Americas Vacationland
Kennedy Space
Center (Cape
Canaveral)
Ringling Brothers
and Barnum and
Bailey Circus
(Venice)
Sports
Baseball players
practice in Florida
Polo is played in
Palm Beach
St. Augustine
founded by
Spaniards the
oldest city in the US
Miami a lot of
Cubans settled here
after the Cuban
Revolution
Okefenokee Swamp
Okefenokee Swamp
The Okefenokee
Swamp is in Florida and
Georgia.
Okefenokee is an
Indian word for land of
trembling earth. It has
islands made of peat
decaying plant matter.
When stepped on,
these islands seem to
tremble underfoot.
Okefenokee Swamp
It provided a hiding
place for all sorts of
people: Indians fighting
back against the whites
who took their land,
escaped slaves, and
moonshiners.
Now Okefenokee
Wildlife Refuge provides
a home for many
endangered species.
Atlanta, Georgia
Improved relations
between blacks and whites
Cultural center