Outlines for Exam 2
Appalachia and the Ozarks
Appalachia
Extent, topography
Demographics
1. Early App. settlement
a.small farms, isolation
2.Southern App. Culture
a.poverty
b.religion
c.politics
d.community and family
e.similarity to Ozarks
US Land Survey System
US Land Survey System
Impacts on the American Landscape
Background
States and grant arguments
1.Northwest Territory Ordinance
a.Jefferson and Congress
2.Land Ordinance of 1785
a.Geographer’s Line
3.Ohio Company
4.Land Ordinance of 1796
a.Baselines, Meridians, Townships, Sections
b.Arizona examples
Changes in land amounts
Other land grants
Examples and interpreting the system
Bring in copies of the assigned maps from the map gallery
Midwest
Manufacturing/Industrial Core
extent
1.location, reasons
2.manufacturing factors
Chicago v St.Louis
Development of the Core
Cities of the Core
1.specializations
Agricultural Core
extent
1.culture and immigration
2.settlement and accessibility
Ag Products
1.cornbelt, soybean belt
2.other
3."greening" of agrobusiness
Mechanization Trends
1.decline of family farms
2.economies of scale
Deep South
extent
notoriety
Southern Agrarian Culture, Settlement
1.initial area, reasons
2.plantations, population, organization
Ethnic Cultures
1.dominant, minor
African American presence
1.influences, migration
Cajun/Creole
Major Geographic Consequences of Antebellum & C.W.
1. pp,irs,o,s
Current Status and Economics
1. Atlanta, Charlotte
Great Plains
extent
1.environmental factors, perceptions
Early Settlement
Anglo Settlement
1.by-passed until...
Grasslands Ranching
1.beginnings, spread, collapse
Ag Frontier
1.innovations
Plains Today
1.ag
2.water, O.aquifer & center pivot
3.other resources
Population Patterns
1.BIB,BIT towns
2.dispersal
3.T & parallel forms
The Empty Interior
Physical Attributes
1.vegetation
2.mountains
3.basin & range
4.evaporites
Settlement
Economics
1.mining, precious, others, transportation
2.ranching
3.timber
4.tourism
Transportation and Cities
1.Denver, SLC, Las Vegas
Controversies of Economics and Environment