Chapter 1 U.S. History Vocabulary, Standards, and Objectives

Chapter 1 Geography, history and the social sciences

Objectives
1.    Students will explain how the 5 themes of geography help to define the connections between geography and history.
2.    Students will identify the ways geography has influenced population trends in U.S. history.
3.    Students will explore the ways maps are made and used.
4.    Students will identify the main physical regions of the U.S.
5.    Students will explain how lakes and rivers affect American life.
6.    Students will describe how climates vary across the U.S.
7.    Students will identify several physical features of the U.S.
8.    Students will explore how historians evaluate and interpret historical evidence.
9.    Students will summarize how archaeologists add to our knowledge of history.
10.    Students will explain what we can learn about history by understanding chronology and eras.
11.    Students will identify basic questions economists ask about societies.
12.    Students will list the benefits of free enterprise.
13.    Students will explore how the social sciences can support the study of history.

Vocabulary
1.    Geography                    25. Economics
2.    Latitude                    26.  Consumer
3.    Longitude                    27.  Cash economy
4.    Natural Resources                28. Free enterprise system
5.    Irrigation                    29.  Social sciences
6.    Cartographer                    30.  Political Science
7.    Map projection                31.  Civics
8.    Thematic map                32.  Anthropology
9.    Isthmus                    33. Sociology
10.    Elevation                    34.  Psychology
11.    Erosion
12.    Tributary
13.    Weather
14.    Climate
15.    Precipitation
16.    Altitude
17.    Primary source
18.    Secondary source
19.    Authenticity
20.    Bias
21.    Artifact
22.    Archaeology
23.    Culture
24.    Chronology




Standards
8.3.1    Read a topographical map to interpret symbols.  Determine the landforms and human features that represent physical and cultural characteristics of areas of the U.S.

8.3.2     Map and locate all states of the U.S., major cities, mountain ranges, and river systems.

8.3.3    Locate and map the major climate regions in the U.S. and describe charicteristics of each.

8.3.4    Name and describe the processes that build up land and the processes that erode it.

8.3.5  Identify the agricultural regions of the U.S. and be able to give reasons for the type of land use during different historical periods.

8.3.8     Develop maps showing the distribution of natural resources in the U.S. and give examples of how people exploited these as the country became more industrialized.

8.3.9     Identify ways people modified the physical environment as the U.S. developed and the types of problems that resulted.

8.3.10     Explain the importance of the major mountain ranges and the river systems in the development of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.

8.3.11     Use information technology to gather information on ways people changed the physical environment of the U.S. in the 19th century.

8.1.28 Identify, evaluate and distinguish fact from opinion in a variety of informational resources; differentiate between historical facts and interpretations, recognizing that the facts the historian reports reflects his or her judgment of what is most significant about the past.