Unit 3: The United States and Canada

Warm-up 10/13- What physical features do you think are important in Canada?

Create a KWL chart in your notebooks on page 33.

K-Know W-Want to know L- What we learned

The United States and Canada

• What do the words “the United States” bring to mind??

The United States and Canada

• The images are endless for the land that offers so many opportunities.

• The United States is a land of many cultures and peoples.

• The country is also known for its varied landscape of big, cities, rugged mountains, wide plains, and forests that cover vast stretches of land.

The United States and Canada

• The U.S. is a mix of bustling urban areas and rural agriculture.

• Megalopolis- a term used to describe the eastern coast of the United States

• Megalopolis- a very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.

The United States and Canada

• Begin labeling your United States and Canada maps!!!!

Exit Ticket

• Write down what you know about various cultures that contribute to the larger American culture.

• Which culture do you believe has had the most influence on the United States.

Homework

• Pages 117-122, #1-4 on page 122

Warm-up 10/14

• “I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.”

• Answer the questions on your warm-up paper based on this quote.

• Label your United States and Canada maps.

Warm-up 10/16- answer the questions from Wednesday based

on this picture… we will come back to Thursday later today.

Warm-up

1. What landmark is this?1. The CN Tower, originally known as the Canadian National

2. Where is it located?1. Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada

3. Which culture created it?1. Canadians

4. Why/when was this landmark created?1. Completed in 1976

5. What defining characteristics standout to you? 1. Tallest freestanding structure in the western hemisphere

Various landforms

Landforms

Eastern Lowlands

• Flat coastal plain- runs along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico

• One section- Atlantic Coastal Plain • The Gulf Coastal Plan stretches along the Gulf of Mexico

The Appalachian Highlands

• Appalachian Mts. found here• Green and Catskill Mts. in the North• Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mts. in the South

Interior Lowlands

• Flattened by huge glaciers • Terrain includes lowlands, rolling hills, thousands of lakes

and rivers, and fertile soil• 3 sub regions: interior plains, great plains, and the

Canadian shield• Canadian shield- rocky, mainly flat area that covers the

area around the Hudson Bay

Western Mountains, Plateaus, and Basins

• Rocky Mts. • Continental divide- the line of highest points in the Rockies• Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges• Mt. McKinley- the highest point in North America • Major earthquakes near the Pacific ranges• Deep canyons, steep cliffs, and lowland desert areas

called basins between the ranges

Islands • Canada- icy islands near the Arctic Circle- Ellesmere, Victoria, and Baffin

• Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska and Hawaiian islands created by volcanic activity

Resources Oceans and Waterways

Land and Forests Minerals and Fossil Fuels

• Ample water resources

• Shipping and fishing industries

• Inland rivers and lakes also serve as transportation, hydroelectric power, irrigation, freshwater, and fisheries

• The great lakes: HOMES

• Mississippi River• Mackenzie River in

Canada

• US and Canada both have fertile soil

• North America is the worlds leading food exporter (most from the plains)

• Huge forests (app. ½ of Canada is covered by woodlands and 1/3 of the U.S.)

• Both countries are major producers of lumber and forest products.

• Minerals and fossil fuels provide means to industrialize rapidly

• Canadian Shield- iron ore, nickel, copper, gold, and uranium

• Western Mts. Have gold, silver, copper, and uranium

• Both countries also have coal, natural gas, and oil

Warm-up 10/16

• Why do we care about natural resources?

homework

• Page 126 #1-4

• We will have a homework quiz tomorrow!

Warm-up 10/17

What is the cartoon trying to portray?

Homework Quiz

1. Why are the United States and Canada leading industrial nations?

2. How do the prevailing westerlies change the climate of parts of the U.S. and Canada?

3. What climate regions are found in BOTH the U.S. and Canada?

Warm-up 10/20- According to the map below what type of climate region do we live in?

activity

• On the blank piece of paper draw an outline of the U.S. and Canada. You may use an atlas or your textbook, but you are NOT allowed to trace.

• Color the map by climate regions.

• In your key include characteristics about each climate region.

Homework

• Page 130 #1-4

Warm-up 10/21

• Answer the questions on your warm-up paper based on the quote below.

• This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Migration

• Historically 3 waves of immigration:• Europe• Asia• Latin America

Historical Migration

• Europe- (17th-18th Centuries)• From northwestern Europe- U.K. Ireland,

Scandinavian, Germany• From southern and eastern Europe- Italy, Eastern

Europe (Poland, Czech.)• Push/pull factors economic opportunities, political

freedom

migration

• Asia (19th-20th C.)• 19th Century.- Chinese, Japanese • Push and pull factors- economic opportunity • Late 20th C.- Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos

(push and pull factors: political asylum, escaping wars.)

migration

• Latin America• Late 20th C, early 21st C.• From Mexico, Central America (push/pull factors:

escaping war, seeking economic opportunities, political asylum- Cubans 1960’s-1970’s.)

MODERN MIGRATION

• The majority of immigrants come from Latin America, Asia, and Africa

• California- Asians

• Southeast- Africa (Great Migration)

• East- Irish (moved towards the Midwest)

• Southwest- Hispanic (spreading north)

• Native Americans moved onto reservations

Modern migration

• Environmental conditions: why did people settle where they did?• Settling in familiar climate regions (similar to

country of origin) • Settled close to other recent immigrants with

similar backgrounds • Settled at or near port of entry (ex. Ellis Island,

Miami for Cubans, Angel Island San Francisco, etc.)

• Columbian Exchange:• The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals

during the colonization of the Americas. New crops led to better diets, increased demands for foods, leads to more exploring, colonization, and trade.

Impact on the Americas?

• Write about how migration has impacted the Americas.

• Talking points…• How has it affected our country as a whole? • Has it led to any effect on our lives today?• Any impact on globalization?• Economic activities?

Impact on Europe

• New foods and plants, including maize (corn), tomatoes, chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes resulting in population increase; the Americas became a valuable source of cotton and sugar, resulting in plantation systems where forced labor was a necessity.

Warm-up 10/22

Warm-up 10/22

1. What landmark is this?1. Niagara Falls

2. Where is it located?1. Border of Ontario, Canada and New York, U.S.

3. Which culture created it?1. Nature

4. Why/when was this landmark created?1. The falls were created by glaciers about 10,000

years ago

5. What defining characteristics standout to you?

Event #1

• In 1848, a carpenter named James W. Marshal discovered gold under the mill he was building in California. The news of this event prompted what is referred to as the California Gold Rush. Many people from the United States and around the world migrated to California in hopes of striking it rich. As a result, population and economic activity in California boomed.

Event #2

• The Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a violent and chaotic time for many of its citizens including the border region with the U.S. As many different political factions fought against the forces of President Porfirio Diaz, many Mexicans from along the border regions fled the violence by crossing into the United States.

Event #3

• In order to help the U.S. grow westward, the U.S. government passed the Homestead Act of 1862. The act offered 160 acres of land to anyone who would promise to improve the land by cultivating it and living on it for five years. The Act helped bring new settlers but also encouraged both American and foreign investors to promote infrastructure on undeveloped land. One of the most important investments included railroad companies.

Event #4

• On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies connected their tracks at Promontory Point, Utah with the tracks that extend from Sacramento, California. This created the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. In the following years, after the 1872 foreign and domestic laborers, merchants, and financial investments that forever changed these regions. The change included the creation of new towns and the expansion of old ones into small cities that would later grow into the region’s most important urban centers.

Event #5

• A category 5 hurricane hit the states of Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi in August of 2005. Cities flooded and close to 2,000 people died. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes.

Event #6

• The Midwest experienced severe droughts and dust storms during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Many farmers depleted the soil of its minerals by not rotating crops. Pretty soon, nothing could be grown and cultivated.

activity

• Write an “I am” poem from the perspective of a person who lived through one of these 6 events. Include the push/pull factor in each poem.

• Use this format:• I am…• I wonder…• I hear…• I see…• I say…• I feel…• I am…

Homework

• Page 149 #1-4

Warm-up 10/23

• What are some sub regions in the U.S.?

Homework quiz

1. Why is the St. Lawrence Seaway important?

2. How has air conditioning changed the economic activities of the subregions of the United States?

Regional division

• World regions are further divided internally to help study and understand the way they work

• Regions are divided up by proximity, climate, economy, agriculture, and cultural concentration.

Regions of the united states

Regions of Canada

Prairies

Mountains and the West

Northern Canada

East CoastCentral Canada/

Canadian Shield

Belt regions

• Often times the regions are referred to as ‘Belt Regions’ since they follow lines of latitude

• Belt regions are mostly perceptual- based off of ideas that people have about an area

Sun belt

• Southern, hot weather states that stretch from coast to coast.

• Falls between the 37th and 38th parallels.

• Most of economy is based off of agriculture that requires dry land. The economy is also based off of tourism.

Bible belt

•Southeastern and mid-western states where strict religious beliefs are followed• Protestant, Evangelical, Baptist

•Due to the colonial spread of state religions in the region.

Grain Belt/ America’s Breadbasket

• Produces much of the world's grain and soybeans.

• A family of four could live for 10 years off the bread produced by one acre of wheat.

• In 1997, Kansas's wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 36.5 billion loaves of bread.

Corn belt

• Majority of the nation’s corn produced here.

• Corn used for – Corn and popcorn– Sweeteners– Ethanol gas

Cotton belt

• The Cotton Belt, reaching from Virginia to the midwest.

• Cotton crops are also found in California• Texas is the top cotton-producing state,

harvesting about one-third of the crop each year

Rust belt

• The Rust Belt, also known as the Manufacturing Belt has an economy based largely on heavy industry, manufacturing, and associated industries.

Bilingual belt

• Area of Canada where most people speak both English and French

Canadian shield

• Large geographic shield of land• Continental plate

French Canada

• The part of Canada that still aligns with France

• Originally founded as French colonies• Struggles with their identity • Continuously trying to separate from

British Canada

Warm-up 10/24

• What is the political cartoon trying to portray?

• How do you feel about it?

Warm-up 10/27- What does this map show us?

Warm-up 10/28

• What types of belt regions did we talk about last week?

• What economic activities take place in those belt regions?

• How has air conditioning affected these belt regions?

Warm-up 10/29

1. What landmark is this?1. Mount Rushmore

2. Where is it located?1. South Dakota

3. Which culture create it? 1. American

4. Why/when was this landmark created? Why is it happening?

1. 1927

5. What defining characteristics standout to you?

Warm-up 10/30

• What helps determine where a company should be located?

Homework Quiz1. Where are the industrial centers in the United States?

2. What invention made life possible in the suburbs?

3. What are the geographic origins of some American musical styles?

4. How is the economy of the United States different from its economy 50 years ago?

5. Define: Parliamentary Government.

6. Define: Service industry.

7. Define: Postindustrial economy.

8. What mineral discoveries spurred development in Canada?

9. How did the French and Indian War change Canada?

10. How is Canada’s federal government different from the federal government of the United States?

Exit ticket

• Do most U.S. companies manufacture products or do many more U.S. companies transfer information, money, services and knowledge? Is the U.S. an industrial nation or a postindustrial nation? Does it rely heavily on manufacturing or on service and information as an economy? Which companies rely heavily on technology and innovation?