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US History Week One: Geography
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VOCAB REVIEW Geography – map, history of Earth
Climate – temperature of environment (long period) Cash crop – food – farming, $ Immigration – comes from another country Ice Age – frozen Earth Demographics – statistic about people (race, wealth, age) Nomads – move from place to place looking for food Economy - $ types of jobs
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5 Features of Geography LOCATION PLACE MOVEMENT REGION
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
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Location of the United States
ABSOLUTE LOCATION (This is like GPS coordinates. It doesn’t change.) Continent: North America Oceans: Atlantic (east coast) Pacific (west coast)
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Location of the United States
RELATIVE LOCATION (Where is the U.S. compared to other places?) Bordering countries Canada (north) Mexico (south Disconnected from other areas Technology improved Transportation, communication Examples: railroads, post offices…
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Place PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
(landforms, water bodies, vegetation, & climate) Midwest (rich soil, good for farming) Great Plains & Central Plains Mississippi River (transport goods) East Appalachian Mountains West Rocky Mountains
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Place HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS (language, religion, customs…)
Lots of immigration many cultures Urban Most densely populated (most people in one area) = North East [Washington D.C. to Boston] Good life Longer life expectancy (people live longer) Higher incomes (people make more money) High literacy rates (lots of people can read & write)
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Movement BERING STRAIGHT (land bridge)
When: Ice Age (20,000-12,000 years ago) What: Ice connected Alaska & Asia Who: Hunters from Asia crossed bridge & moved into North & South America
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EUROPEAN COLONIZATION & SLAVERY
Movement EUROPEAN COLONIZATION & SLAVERY 1500’s Spain: “colonized” Florida, Southwest, Mexico 1600’s France & Great Britain: “colonized” East Coast Africans: forcefully brought to U.S.
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Movement WESTWARD EXPANSION When: 1800’s Who: Vocab:
Europeans: moved West looking for gold Native Americans: pushed off their land Vocab: Manifest Destiny (U.S. was meant to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean)
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AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION
Movement AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION and 1940’s Moved from South to Northeast & Midwest Looking for better economic opportunity
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(southern states from Florida to California)
Movement SUN BELT (southern states from Florida to California) When: 1950 What: many moved from industrial cities in the North & Midwest to the Sun Belt Why: warmer, job oportunities Effect: gave South more voice in politics (South has many Republicans, conservatives)
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(ONE COMMON CHARACTERISTIC)
Regions (ONE COMMON CHARACTERISTIC) Physical: Landform, climate Cultural: Economy, political organization Examples: Amish (PA) New York City’s Chinatown
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Human-Environment Interaction
(How Did People Use the Land?) Mid-Atlantic (coastal plains): agriculture South (long, hot summers): tobacco, cotton New England (rocky soil, coast): fishing, shipbuilding, water-powered factories Coastal cities: ports for trading goods Tourism: parks, Niagara Falls …
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Human-Environment Interaction
GEOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS TODAY Waste disposal (dumps, landfills) Air & water pollution Energy sources & energy use
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