U.S. Geography

​Mr. Wolken's U.S History

Topics of discussion:

1. Google Class Room

2. Teachers Curriculum Institute​

3. Settera Map Games

4. Flex Block​

104 Englishmen and boys backed by the Virginia company looking for gold!

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What could go wrong ?!​

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Jamestown 1607

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​Pocahantas saves John Smith

Why?​

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​U.S. Geographical Landforms

​Physical Features:

Mountains ranges: Appalachians, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coastal Range, Cascade

Plains: Gulf Coastal, Central, and Great Plains

Plateaus: Colorado Plateau

Rivers: St. Lawrence, Mississippi, Colorado, Rio Grande, Columbia River

Lakes​ : Great Lakes, Slat Lake

​Natural Resources

The abundance of natural resources [natural resource: a substance found in nature, such as iron or water, that can be used by people] in the United States has long made it a land of opportunity. Soil, forests, wildlife, and minerals have provided the basis for economic activity since the ancient peoples migrated to North America from Asia. Their descendants developed ways of life suited to local resources. Some tribes followed buffalo on the Great Plains. Others developed economies based on woodland game, marine mammals, or fish from rivers or oceans. Still others relied on the land itself, clearing trees and diverting waterways to farm the land.

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​Natural Resources

​Parts of our nation that do not have good farmland are rich in other resources. New England's rocky soil and cold winters limited farming to a small scale. Instead, New Englanders built their economy on the resources of the forest and sea. They exported dried fish and whale oil and used their abundant timber to build fishing boats and merchant ships. This successful shipbuilding industry, as well as the area's sheltered harbors, made New England the center of trade with other countries.

Though Virginia did not have the precious metals the colonists had hoped for, other parts of the country did contain mineral resources. As the United States expanded across the continent in the 1800s, settlers found copper, lead, gold, silver, nickel, and zinc far beneath the soil. These minerals became a source of wealth, as well as the raw materials for American factories to produce an astonishing array of goods. Today, every state has an active mining industry, even tiny Rhode Island and tropical Hawaii.