This document provides information about the US states in the East South Central and West South Central regions. It outlines key facts about Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas such as famous people, historical events, cultural aspects, and tourist attractions in each state. Some highlights mentioned include the Kentucky Derby, Elvis Presley, jazz music in New Orleans, the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, and irrigation farming techniques in Texas.

1. USA
East South Central
West South Central
Anežka Stecová

4. KENTUCKY

5. • Kentucky Derby
• Bourbon – a type of whiskey, oak-barreled,
made from corn
• Abraham Lincoln
• Muhammad Ali – professional boxer,
religious freedom, racial justice
• Bill Monroe – bluegrass music
• Colonel Sanders - KFC

6. Kentucky Derby

7. Bourbon

8. Abraham Lincoln
Muhammad Ali

9. Bill Monroe

10. Colonel Sanders

11. TENNESSEE

12. • Great Smoky Mountains
o Dollywood (a theme park owned by Dolly
Parton- country musician)
• Grand Ole Opry, Nashville
o Country shows
• Beale Street, Memphis
o Blues, rock‘n‘roll, B.B. King – The king of blues
• Elvis Presley‘s house, Memphis
• Jack Daniel‘s Whiskey

13. Great Smoky Mountains

15. Grand Ole Opry

16. Beale Street, Memphis

18. ALABAMA

19. • Montgomery
o African-American Civil Rights Movement
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks
o bus boycott
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Keller, Harper Lee
• Hank Williams
• Muscle Shoals
o The legendary recording studios (Aretha Franklin,Lynyrd Skynyrd,
The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bob Dylan,…)
• the U.S. Space & Rocket Center

20. Montgomery

21. Muscle Shoals

22. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center

23. MISSISSIPPI

24. • cotton fields
o slavery, Civil War
• juke joint
o a place for black planation workers to relax,
dance, play and socialize
o often at rural crossroads
• Elvis Presley‘s birthplace
• William Faulkner, Eudora Welty

25. cotton fields

26. juke joint

27. Elvis Presley‘s birthplace

29. LOUISIANA

30. • New Orleans
o Jazz music, House of Blues
• dance halls, hole-in-the-wall clubs
• Hayride variety show
o J. L. Lewis, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash
• Acadiana
o swamps, Cajuns
• Oak Alley Plantation

31. Mississippi delta

33. New Orleans

36. Acadiana

37. Dance halls

38. Oak Alley Plantation

40. • Hot Springs
o ‘‘Healing waters‘‘, famous guests (Al Capone)
• Japanese American internment camps
o the forced relocation and incarceration during WW II of
110,000-120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942, shortly
after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Dyess Colony
o created in 1934 as a federal agricultural resettlement
community, it provided a fresh start for nearly 500
impoverished Arkansas farm families, a part of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
o Johny Cash‘s family

41. Hot Springs

43. Internment camps

45. Dyess Colony

47. • National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum
• Cherokees
o a Native American tribe
• Oklahoma City Stockyards
o a public livestock market, the largest live cattle auction

48. National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum

50. TEXAS

51. • Gruene Hall
o a famous Texas dance hall – cowboys, country
• Irrigation circles
o Makes farming possible where the soil is dry and unfertile BUT with
huge water wasting !!!
• San Antonio
o Spanish culture, architecture
o Stock show and rodeo
• Space Center Houston
• San Jacinto Monument
• Commemorates Texas Revolution, the world‘s tallest
column is 173m high (taller than Washington Monument)

52. Gruene Dance Hall

55. Irrigation system

56. San Antonio

57. Cadillac Ranch

58. Space Center Houston

60. San Jacinto Monument

61. References
• http://www.travelsouthusa.com/states
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/the-south
• http://dyesscash.astate.edu/