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Exploring the Human Geography of the United States: Shaping an Abundant Land

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  1. Chapter 6 Human Geography of the United States Shaping an Abundant Land

  2. Vocabulary • Migration • Frontier • Isolationism • Representative democracy

  3. First contact of Europeans with the Americas led to the greatest ecological events in history

  4. History and Government of the United States 6.1 • 3rd largest country • Nation of Immigrants • European settlement displaced Native Americans

  5. Establishing the Union

  6. Sectionalism

  7. An Industrial and Urban Society

  8. World Power and Domestic Change

  9. The United States & Globalization

  10. Governing the People

  11. Economy and Culture of the United States 6.2 • The United States is the leading economic power • The US economy is run largely on free-enterprise (free market, capitalist) system

  12. Vocab • Postindustrial economy • multinational

  13. The World’s Greatest Economic Power

  14. A Diverse Society • English is the dominant language • Religious freedom is guaranteed by the Constitution

  15. American Life Today • Pursuing the “American Dream” • 80% live in metropolitan areas • 50% are employed • 50% of them are women • Free compulsory education • 90% in public schools • Much time spent in leisure activities • 10% live in poverty

  16. The United States’ economy is run on a free enterprise system, in which • Goods and services are sold or traded at the highest profit margin possible • The government retains strict controls over businesses, resources and technology that are sold or traded for profit. • Businesses, resources and technology are worker-owned and operated. • The government exerts little control over businesses, resources and technology operated for profit by private individuals

  17. 2. Many American corporations are involved in business worldwide and are called… • multinationals • service organizations • Free enterprise • Postindustrialists

  18. 3. The united States is currently in a “postindustrial” economy because • Manufacturing is no longer the country’s most important industry. • World War II caused a significant change in how the country’s industry operated. • The country leads the world in trading. • The country’s industrial output is the greatest in the world.

  19. Subregions 6.3

  20. The Northeast Heart of commerce and trade Megalopolis- “Boswash”

  21. Midwest • America’s Heartland • The Nation’s Breadbasket • Central location and excellent waterways • Chicago is a financial and transportation “hub” • Number of farms is declining

  22. The South

  23. The West (Hey, that’s us!)

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