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Semester Exam Southern Culture Proctor

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Terms. Know what is significant about each of the following terms, based on our study of Southern Culture. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

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 78 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 (blues) harp 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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Questions & Concepts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.

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? scsemexstudy.13f

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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?

Map Locations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

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

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