What is a reservation?
land set aside or "reserved" for a special purpose, such as for one group to settle on.
a native-american attack on an american settlement
any state in the west that was occupied by native americans
a railroad system, which finally tied the united states together.

What made the middle colonies different from new england and the southern colonies?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

How did geography influence the development of the byzantine empire?