 TOPOGRAPHY  The Gulf of Mexico is to the south  The south is low swamp lands and beaches  The north is prairie and forests

 Long, hot summers  Short, mild winters  Rains a lot  It almost NEVER snows  Has hurricanes and tornadoes

 Cotton  Soybeans  Cattle  Eggs  Dairy  Rice  Petroleum  Natural gas

 French Quarter- the oldest city in New Orleans  -the French discovered this area, and this is  one of the cities they built in 1718

 TOPOGRAPHY  Mississippi River is western border  Very low land, low hills, many forests  The Gulf of Mexico is to the south

 Humid and long summers  Short, mild winters  inches of rain a year, snow is not normal  Thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes are common  Flooding is common

 Cottodn  Mississippi is a very poor state LANDMARKS -The Governor’s Mansion: One of the oldest homes of politicians -Beauvoir Home: the last home of President Jefferson Davis

TOPOGRAPHY  The eastern boarder is the Mississippi River  The land is flat on the east by the river and very fertile soil  The land is mountainous on the west, and the Ozark Mountains are in the NW part

 Humid, hot summers  Dry, short, mild winters  inches of rain per year  Thunderstorms and tornadoes  Floods happen in the east <>

 Eggs  Soybeans  Cattle  Cotton  Rice  Diamonds

 Hot Springs National Park -Little Rock Central High School (where the first desegregation of a school took place)

 Most of the state is flat  Mountains in the north CLIMATE -hot summers, mild winters -thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes -snow is not common

 Peanuts  Corn  Soybeans  Peaches  Cotton

 Trail of Tears- in 1831 over 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to move off of their land. Over 4,000 died walking. They walked more than 1,000 miles.  Wetumpka crater

 Flat land in the south  Hills and mountains to the north CLIMATE inches of rain a year -hot and humid summers, mild winters -lots of tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hurricanes

 Pecans  Peaches  Peanuts  Tobacco

 Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site -MLK grew up in Alabama, and this place includes his boyhood home and the church where he was the pastor.

 Everglades- a very slow-flowing river, swampland  Flat, beaches CLIMATE -hot and humid -Has the most lightning in the United States -Thunderstorms and tornadoes -Hurricanes

 Fruit (oranges, grapefruit, strawberries) LANDMARKS -Disney World!

 The NW has mountains  The middle is hilly  Many lakes CLIMATE -hot and humid summers -rains a lot -no snow

 Tobacco  Cattle  Soybeans LANDMARKS -Hilton Head- 12 miles of beaches, a big vacation site! - Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site -The first colony in South Carolina in 1670

 On the east, by the ocean, is flat and this is where the farming happens  In the middle, there are hills and a lot of waterfalls  In the west, there are the Appalachian Mountains

In the east by the ocean, it is warm and the winters are not cold -In the west by the mountains, the winters are much colder, inches of snow a year -tornadoes happen, sometimes hurricanes Natural Resources -tobacco, milk, cattle, soybeans

 Kitty Hawk- the town where the Wright Brothers had their first flight in 1903

 Blue Ridge Mountains on the east  Plateaus in the middle  The west is mostly flat CLIMATE -50 inches of rain a year -Summers are hot -Tornadoes and thunderstorms are common

 Cotton  Cattle  Soybeans LANDMARKS -The Hermitage- The plantation of Andrew Jackson in the 1800s

 Mountains, plateaus, valleys CLIMATE -hot and humid summers, colder winters -45 inches of rain a year

 Cumberland River- the second largest man- made lake in the United States  Mammoth Cave- longest cave system in the world!  Churchill Downs: home of the Kentucky Derby Natural Resources -cattle and HORSES! -tobacco -dairy -corn

 Appalachian Mountains  Plains on the east by the ocean CLIMATE -Normal seasons -Thunderstorms are common

 Tomatoes  Oysters  Peanuts LANDMARKS -the Pentagon -The Virginia Colony was the first settlement -Williamsburg- was the first capitol of Virginia from 1699 to 1780