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.
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
Northeast Maine Vermont New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island New York New Jersey Pennsylvania
Southeast Maryland Delaware West Virginia Virginia Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas
Midwest Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri Kansas Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota
Southwest Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona
Rocky Mountains Colorado Utah Nevada Montana Wyoming Idaho
Pacific Washington Oregon California
Noncontiguous Alaska Hawaii
The student will explain relationships among natural resources, transportation, and industrial development after 1877.
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
Manufacturing areas were clustered near centers of population. Examples of manufacturing areas Textile industry—New England Automobile industry—Detroit Steel industry—Pittsburgh
Northeast: New York, __________________________ Boston, _____________________________ Pittsburgh, __________________________ Philadelphia, _________________________
Southeast: Washington, D.C. ____________________ Atlanta, ____________________________ New Orleans, ________________________
Midwest: Chicago, ____________________________ St. Louis, ____________________________ Detroit, _____________________________
Southwest: San Antonio, _________________________ Santa Fe, ____________________________
Western (Rocky Mountains): Denver, _____________________________ Salt Lake City, ________________________
Pacific: San Francisco, _______________________ Los Angeles, ________________________ Seattle, _____________________________
Noncontiguous: Juneau, ____________________________ Honolulu, ___________________________