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NORTH AMERICAN

REGIONSII. Appalachian System

a. The Piedmont

Red-Term to define and remember

Yellow-Place to locate and remember

Green-Resource to know andremember

Bright Green-Agricultural product

(crop) to remember White, Blue and Brown-Narration to

help understanding

Civil War Site

Piedmont

Stockade Fence

(Palisade)

What is the name of this place?

Notice the topography .

Notice the red clay soil .

What mineral is this a sign of?

Iron (Fe)

Highway signs

Which are statehighways?

Which are US(Federal)

Highways?

Agriculture

What cropsare these?

Peaches

Peanuts

Where’s

Waldo?Behling?

Atlanta 1996 Olympics

Trading Pins

Atl t CBD

Atlanta CBD

Coke Olympics

Coke Antidote

Centennial Park

Consequence of BombEntering Olympic Stadium

Connie Teaberry

Lutheran HighSchool North

P l V lt

Pole Vault

Carl Lewis

Decathlon

Javelin

110 Meter

High Hurdles

The Press

Michael Johnson

M ti ll

Monticello

Piedmontfrom Monticello

Noticetopography

Piedmontfrom the porch

Notice Topography

Why are there so many trees?

Answer: POOR soil!

Ridge and Piedmontfrom Monticello

Blue Ridge

Piedmont

M O N T I C E L L O

Thomas

Jefferson’s

He wanted to beremembered for:

Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia

The Rotunda

How is the style similar to Monticello?

The Lawn

D i f P i il d S i

Dormitory for Privileged Seniors(and Faculty)

Can you see yourself here?

Poplar ForestAnother home of Thomas Jefferson

Look Familiar?

Archaeology

What type of tree is this?

Magnolia

What crop is it?

Tobacco

•Tobacco requiresmuch hand labor.

•Therefore fieldsare small.

•However profits

per acre arelarge.

•Also federal

governmentregulates tobaccofarmers.

Appomattox Court House Va

What’s this?

Well House

Bucolic, ain’t it?

Note: topography

Note: Soil (Fe)

Civil War Battlefield

Single bloodiest day in US history

Antietam, Maryland

Hint: Ridge

Why were so many Civil War

battles fought in the Piedmont?

Hint: Ridge

Antietam

Chickamauga, Georgia

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg

Little Round Top

Gettysburg

Confederate lines

Devil’s Den

Atlanta

Charlottesville

Appomattox

Antietam

GettysburgNew York City

Boston

The City Started Here

e City Started Here

The Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn

The other boroughs are:

Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island

BrooklynStatenIsland

OrManhattan

New York Harbor

Ellis Island

Therefore many immigrants settled here.

Why is New York the largest city in the US?

Answer: 1.New York Harbor is the best on theEast Coast, which is facing Europe.

New York City

Find the best pass

through the AppalachianMountains.

Answer 2:

Hudson River Valley

Tidal bore

New York is the Largest City in

New York is the Largest City inthe US because . . .

Best harbor

Location relative to Europe

Erie Canal connected it to the West

Battery Park--Site of New Amsterdam

New York, New York

Midtown

Downtown

Do nto n o Lo e M nh tt n

Downtown, or Lower Manhattan

Note the scale of the buildings!

There are few old residential areas left.

One of theld t

oldest

Greenwich Village

Washington

WashingtonSquare Park

H u d s o n

R i v e

GreenwichVillage

Notice thevariation in

streetpatterns.

Chinatown

Still today, New York is a very cosmopolitan city.

Also Downtown—the financial center

N A S D A Q

Trinity Church

World Trade Center

World Trade CenterSite

Freedom Tower

New York, New York CBD

Midtown

Downtown

Chrysler

EmpireState

ChryslerBuilding

StateBldg.

RockefellerC t

Center

St. Patrick’sCathedral

United Nations

General

Assembly

Security Council

5 permanentmembershave veto

power.

United StatesUnited Kingdom

RussiaFranceChina

Marc Chagall

Times SquareFrom Google Images

Uptown

Central Park

Evidence of Glaciation (Ice Sheets)

Noticethe taxis

Upper West Side

Harlem

Upper East Side

Metropolitan

Museum

Of Art

Frank LloydWright

Wright

Lee Ufan

Museum

ModernArt

Van Gogh

Cezanne

Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon

Picasso

Warhol

Definitions

Piedmont-a region of small hills or”foothills”

Monticello-Jefferson’s home inCharlottesville, Virginia (“Little Hill”)

Topography-the shape of the land

Ridge-an elongated raised piece of land

Glaciation-a period of time when an ice

sheet covered an area

Harbor-a sheltered inlet for ships (port)

C. W. MorganA Whaling ship

Mystic Seaport, Connecticut

Schooner Amistad

Mystic River (estuary)

Drawbridge

Rotating

Railroad bridge

Notice therocky shore.

What are these buildings?Answer: abandoned factories in Fall River,

Massachusetts.Why are mid-19th Century factories HERE?

Answer: Fall Line

The Fall Line Is . . .

The border of the Atlantic CoastalPlain and the Piedmont of theAppalachian System

A series of waterfalls and rapidswhere rivers fall off the hardmetamorphic rock of the Piedmont tothe soft sedimentary rock of the Plain

A series of cities located at thosewaterfalls

Cities are located on the fall linebecause:

because:

At the time of settlement the mostimportant form of transportation waswater.

And boats were forced to stop at thefalls or rapids = head of navigation

Later the falling water was used forwater power

Which attracted mills and people

New York City

Fall River

TrentonPhiladelphiaBaltimore

Washington.D.C.

Fredricksburg, VARichmond

Raleigh

Columbia

Augusta

ColumbusMontgomery

An old factory being put to anew use.

Definitions, continued

Cosmopolitan-characterized by manycultures with an outwardly looking worldview

Borough-formerly an independent county,

now one of the five sections of New YorkCity

Head of Navigation-the farthest you canget a boat upstream on a river.

Water power-formerly, using the fallingriver to turn a mill wheel

What crop is this?

Hint: We’re in Massachusetts.

Cranberries

Close Up

Plimouth

During what era would houses havelooked like this?

Hint: Massachusetts Bay

Making this a deep port for . . .

Note: the relatively steep slope to the bay.

The Mayflower

Old Ironsides

Boston

Old StateHouse

Sequent Occupence

Another Example

of Sequent Occupence

in Boston

The Old NorthChurch

Church

The steeple wasused in 1775 to

Reveal bylanterns if the

British werecoming

“one if by land,and two if by sea /

and I [PaulRevere] on the

opposite shore willbe.”

The Battle of BunkerHill M i l

Hill Memorial

Boston isthe site of

the site of

the first “public” school in

America.

Trivia: Boston is the largest state capital.

Which city is the second largest state capital?

Massachusetts Capitol

Harvard

Harvard quad(rangle)

Quincy, Mass.

Salt box

Birthplace of John Adams

Built in 1681

And next door is . . . .

John Adam’s homewhere the 6th president

f th U S b

JohnQuincyAdams

of the U.S. was born.Adams

John Adams “new” house, built in 1731

Unity ChurchQuincy, Mass.

Quincy, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

The House of theSeven Gables

Seven Gables

Salem made its moneydue to its site during the

17th C t

17th Century.

Imports had to be brought here

To pay taxes

Salem Churchyard

New Hampshire

Note: Rocky coast

Camden, Maine

Widow’s Walk

Camden, Maine

Typical New England Houses

Note: building material

Note: Building Material

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