1. US History
Week One:
Geography

2. 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

3. 5 Features of Geography LOCATION PLACE MOVEMENT REGION
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

4. 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)

6. 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…

7. 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

9. 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)

10. 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

12. 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.

13. 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)

14. AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION
Movement
AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION
and 1940’s
Moved from South to Northeast & Midwest
Looking for better economic opportunity

15. (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)

16. (ONE COMMON CHARACTERISTIC)
Regions
(ONE COMMON CHARACTERISTIC)
Physical:
Landform, climate
Cultural:
Economy, political organization
Examples:
Amish (PA)
New York City’s Chinatown

17. 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 …

18. Human-Environment Interaction
GEOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS TODAY
Waste disposal (dumps, landfills)
Air & water pollution
Energy sources & energy use