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The student will use maps locating the 50 states and the cities most significant to the historical development of the United States Cities serve as centers of trade and have political, economic, and cultural significance.
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As people moved west and settled in the territories, the territories became states. A state is an example of a political region. The states may be grouped together to form larger political regions. The political regions for the states are: Northeast Southeast Midwest Southwest Rocky Mountains Pacific Noncontiguous
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Northeast Maine Vermont New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts
Rhode Island New York New Jersey Pennsylvania
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Southeast Maryland Delaware West Virginia Virginia Kentucky Tennessee
North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas
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Midwest Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa
Missouri Kansas Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota
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Southwest Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona
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Rocky Mountains Colorado Utah Nevada Montana Wyoming Idaho
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Pacific Washington Oregon California
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Noncontiguous Alaska Hawaii
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The student will explain relationships among natural resources, transportation, and industrial development after 1877.
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Advances in transportation linked resources, products, and markets.
Transportation of resources Moving natural resources (e.g., copper and lead) to eastern factories Moving iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills (e.g., Pittsburgh) Transporting finished products to national markets
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Manufacturing areas were clustered near centers of population.
Examples of manufacturing areas Textile industry—New England Automobile industry—Detroit Steel industry—Pittsburgh
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Northeast: New York, __________________________
Boston, _____________________________ Pittsburgh, __________________________ Philadelphia, _________________________
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Southeast: Washington, D.C. ____________________
Atlanta, ____________________________ New Orleans, ________________________
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Midwest: Chicago, ____________________________
St. Louis, ____________________________ Detroit, _____________________________
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Southwest: San Antonio, _________________________
Santa Fe, ____________________________
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Western (Rocky Mountains):
Denver, _____________________________ Salt Lake City, ________________________
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Pacific: San Francisco, _______________________
Los Angeles, ________________________ Seattle, _____________________________
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Noncontiguous: Juneau, ____________________________
Honolulu, ___________________________
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