Maps in Context A Workbook for American History, Volume II

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Pub. Date: 2004-10-08
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

This skill-building workbook developed by an expert in historical cartography offers instructors a powerful tool to help their students comprehend the essential connections between geographic literacy and historical understanding. An excellent general resource,Maps in Contextpresents a wealth of map-centered projects and convenient pop quizzes that give students hands-on experience working with maps.

Table of Contents

Volume 2

Introduction

Section One: Basic Geography

Worksheet A: The World on a Mercator Projection

Worksheet B: The World on a Peters Equal-Area Projection

Worksheet C: North American Rivers and Their Basins

Worksheet D: Geography of the United States

Worksheet E: The Atlantic World

Worksheet F: Large-Scale Maps

Worksheet G: States: Building the Union

Section Two: Mapping America’s History

Worksheet 15: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1881

Worksheet 16: The Sioux Reservations in South Dakota

Worksheet 17: The Expansion of the Railroad System, 1870-1890

Worksheet 18: The Diffusion of the Australian Ballot

Worksheet 19: The Lower East Side, New York City, 1900

Worksheet 20: Woman Suffrage, 1890-1919

Worksheet 21: The American Empire, 1917

Worksheet 22: World War I: U.S. Participation on the Western Front, 1918

Worksheet 23: The Shift from Rural to Urban Population, 1920-1930

Worksheet 24: The Dust Bowl, 1930-1941

Worksheet 25: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Travels, 1936-1937

Worksheet 26: World War II in the North Atlantic, 1939-1943

Worksheet 27: American Global Defense Treaties in the Cold War Era

Worksheet 28: The Interstate Highway System, 1930 and 1970

Worksheet 29: The Vietnam War, 1954-1975

Worksheet 30: States Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1977

Worksheet 31: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, 1989-1991

Section Three: One-Minute Map Quizzes

Quiz 15: Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Quiz 16: The Mining Frontier, 1848-1890

Quiz 17: The New South, 1900

Quiz 18: The Populist Movement in the Late Nineteenth Century

Quiz 19: America’s Cities, 1900

Quiz 20: The Woman’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1918

Quiz 21: The American Empire, 1917

Quiz 22: U.S. Participation in World War I, 1917-1918

Quiz 23: The Shift from Rural to Urban Population, 1920-1930

Quiz 24: The Dust Bowl of the 1930s

Quiz 25: The Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1952

Quiz 26: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

Quiz 27: The Korean War, 1950-1953

Quiz 28: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

Quiz 29: The Vietnam War, 1964-1975

Quiz 30: United States Involvement in Latin America and the Carribean, 1954-2000

Quiz 31: United States Involvement in the Middle East, 1964-2002

Answer Key

Outline Reference Maps

North America: Physical Geography

The United States: Political Divisions

The World: Physical Geography

The World: Political Divisions, 2003

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