Development of the United States

​Development of the United States

Objectives/Goals

Vocabulary

• Describe the main resources and economy in the United States

• Explain how settlement patterns have changed over time in the United States

• Identify economic or agricultural outputs for different regions of the United States

• Assembly Line

• Fracking

• Gold Rush

• Industrialization

• Manifest Destiny

• Staple Crop

• Trail of Tears

• Transcontinental Railroad

​Essential Question: How has the United States developed into a strong nation?

Open Ended

Where in North America is Comet?

Clue 1: Comet is at one of the most important freshwater locations in the United States.

Clue 2: Comet is located in a location that serves as a border between PA and Canada.

Clue 3: Comet is located in a place first documented by European Louis Jolliet.

Clue 4: Comet is located in a place where Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry captured the entire British Fleet.

Clue 5: Comet is at a location where you can visit Bessie.

Where is Comet?

Natural Resources​

• The United States of America is rich in natural resources

  • The development of America is mainly because of the natural resources

Building a Government​

• 1776 - the United States of America earned its independence from Britain

• 1788 - The Constitution became the official rule of the land

  • America is a Federal Republic: the national government shares power with state and regional governments

  • 3 Branches of the government

• Power of the Federal Government

  • Declare War

  • Make Money

  • Maintain the military

• Power of the State Government

  • Regulate business

  • Hold elections

  • Public Schools

  • Marriages

Multiple Choice

Which branch of government in the United States makes the laws for the country?

• the executive branch

  
  

• the legislative branch

• the judicial branch

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Growing the Nation

• Westward Expansion

  • Manifest Destiny: US citizens believed they had the right to expand west and grow America

    • 1803 - Louisiana Purchase: the US purchased the Louisiana Territory from France

      • Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

      • 1812-1912 - 14 new states were created from this region

  • 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: hired to explore the newly purchased land

    • Started in St. Louis and travelled to the Pacific Ocean

  • 1849 - California Gold Rush: a large number of people moved to an area to find gold deposits

Trail of Tears

• Tensions between Native People and American pioneers

• Pioneers began moving onto the land of Indigenous groups

• Trail of Tears: the route taken by Native people who were forced off their land and forced to march hundreds of miles to a new location

  • Hundreds of Native Peoples were killed along this route (starvation and sickness)

​American Civil War and Abolition

• 17th and 18th Century: slavery (mainly in the South)

  • South - Economic factor = plantations

  • North - Economic factor = industries

  • Slavery in America was based on Race and promoted unequal laws and biased attitudes

• 1860s - The South seceded (left the country) over disagreements with the North on the issue of slavery

• Civil War: two parts of the same country fight against citizens of their own country

• 1865 - 13th Amendment: abolished slavery

  • Juneteenth = June 19, 1865 - the day the last community of enslaved people found out they were freed.

• Jim Crowe Laws: a series of biased laws that took rights away from former slaves

  • Voting Restrictions and Segregation

Migration to the United States

• 1600's - Mostly European

• 1800's - (east coast) German and Irish, (west coasts) Asian

  • 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act: stopped Chinese immigrants to America

  • 1920s - Immigration quota system (limit the number of immigrants to America

• 1940s - The Bracero Program brought many Mexicans to America as migrant agriculture workers

• Current - Asia and Latin America

US Immigration Patterns

• The Great Migration

  • Internal Migration: 6 million African Americans were moved out of the South to the Midwest, West and Northeast

  • Escaping discrimination and better jobs, education, etc.

• State-to-State Migration

  • 8 million people move from one state to another state, often for better jobs

• Migration and Resources

  • Regional Differences and Job Needs

​The Three Sisters

• Staple Crop: a crop grown to be eaten by the community

• Three Sisters

  • Folktail of three sister goddesses that protected each other

  • High-tech form of planting

• Corn, Squash, and beans

  • Corn - support for the beans

  • Beans - nutrients for the corn and squash

  • Squash leaves - provide shade

Agriculture in the United States​

• Alaska and Pacific Northwest Coast: Fishing

• Pacific Northwest Inland: Potatoes, berries and Apples

• California: Fruits and vegetables; use of extensive irrigation

• Eastern Great Plains: Corn and soybeans

• Western Great Plains: Wheat

  • The US produces the most wheat and corn in the world

• Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Nebraska: beef

• Florida: Citrus fruits

Economic Technology Changes

• 1800's Industrialization: when people learned to make things in easier and cheaper ways; mainly in factories

  • This led to more jobs and urbanization

• Technology of Industrialization

  • Steel Plows made farming easier

  • Transcontinental Railroad: a railroad that crossed the continent, connecting people, goods, and foods faster

  • Assembly Lines: ways of making a large number of items quickly because each person had one specific job to complete

    • Henry Ford

• Time-Space Compression: Cars and Trains led to more information traveling faster, connecting the world

Natural Resources of PA

• Pennsylvania: Coal, Natural Gass

• Fracking: high-pressure water and chemicals are used to shatter rock and release gases trapped within

  • Has a negative impact on the environment

United States Economy Today

• Market Economy: Americans can own their own business and make money from that business

• Freedom of Job Choice

• Number 1 Economy in the World in Goods produced

  • Services, High Tech Industries (healthcare, education and banking)

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