Fortune seeking prospectors swarmed the west looking for gold
Gold Rush
Colony
Megapolis
Sovereingty
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii.
States of the West
States of the Midwest
States of the South
States of the Northeast
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Ohio River, Missouri River, Arkansas River
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
Cities under Spanish Rule
Great Lakes
Humid Subtropical Cities
Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles
Ontario, Superior, Huron, Eerie and Michigan
Cities under Spanish rule
Dallas, St. Louis, Washington D.C., New York
The state should own and run some basic industries such as transportation, banking, coal mining, while private enterprise operates other industries.
Socialism
Capitalism
Communism
Traditional Economy
The state owns and operates all major farms, factories, utilities, and stores. Government planners decide what products will be made, how much works will be paid, and how much things will cost.
Capitalist
Traditional economy
Occurs when private individuals and groups decide what and how much will it produced and the prices that will be charged for goods and services
Subsistence economies, because little surplus is produced, and there is relatively little need for markets where people can buy or sell excess good.
The government tries to control every part of society – politics, economy, and people’s personal lives
Totalitarianism
Unitarian
Federation
Confederation
Smaller political units keep their sovereignty and give the central government only limited powers, typically in such fields as defense and foreign commerce.
Some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments
Restriction of culture from outside cultural influence
Cultural Divergence
Culture
Diffusion
Cultural Convergence
The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group of individual to another.
Occurs when skills, arts, ideas, habits, and institutions of one culture come in contact with those of another country.
The beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life.
Lithosphere – layer of soil, land, rock, landforms
Hydrosphere – layer of air, water, and other substances above the surface
Atmosphere – consists of water, oceans, lakes and rivers
Biosphere – the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and water
Demography – the study of the earth’s physical structure and history
Emigrants – people who leave the country to live in other places
Immigrants – people who leave the country to live in other places
Mortality Rate – the number of deaths each year per 1,000 people
Birth Rate- the number of live births each year per 1,000 people
Characteristics of World Countries
Clearly defined territory
Population
Gold
Government
Chemical is the process in which rock is broken down by changes in its chemical makeup
weathering is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces by physical means
Delta is a low lying plain formed at the mouth of a
Sediments are small pieces of , soil, and other materials
Dictatorship power is concentrated in a small group or even in a single
