7 th Grade Social Studies

In groups of no more than 4 at each station, you will move station to station analyzing each set of primary and secondary source documents. In complete sentences, answer each document stations set of questions on loose leaf sheet labeled “Arizona Document Walk.” The conversations at each table MUST be about the stations documents. Rotate from station to station in any type of order or sequence… go to a station with 4 or less students at the station.

THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA WAS… GEORGE W.P. HUNT THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA IS BURIED AT… PAPAGO PARK NEXT TO THE PHOENIX ZOO THE TOMB OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA LOOKS LIKE… A LARGE WHITE PYRAMID

Arizona became a territory in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Arizona Organic Act. PRESCOTT is capital. President Taft signed the bill admitting Arizona as the 48 th state on February 14, PHOENIX is capital. First Governor, George H.P. Hunt The Recall Scandal!

Spanish Empire 1821: Mexico revolted from Spanish rule. Arizona is a part of the Mexico 1850: Arizona become a part of the New Mexico Territory : America acquires the bottom 24% of Arizona in the Gadsden Purchase. 1863: Arizona become a territory. 1912: Statehood

Liberty blue from the United States national flag Arizona copper mining production 13 gold and red rays = 13 original colonies and the rays of the Western setting sun in Arizona. Red and Gold are the colors of Coronado's expedition

LARGEST COUNTY SMALLEST COUNTY Gilbert

name of the newspaper HEADLINE February 15, 1912 PRIMARY SOURCE

A B C BASIN & RANGE COLORADO PLATEAU TRANSITION ZONE Arizona shares the Sonoran Desert with Mexico… the home of the saguaro cactus.

State Motto: DITAT DEUS means GOD ENRICHES

What strikes you as odd or unusual about this map? Before the Gadsden Purchase, what type of landform do you think formed the southern boundary of the land that would become Arizona? What resource might Nevada have been seeking access to when it acquired new land in 1866?

What cities were acquired by the Gadsden Purchase? What cities benefitted from the coming of the Railroad?