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10 ! Chapter 1. True Maps, False Impressions: Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps ? 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. GOAL To interpret and critically evaluate maps, to understand how scale influences data representation on maps, and to recognize three types of map scale: representative fraction, verbal, and graphic. You will also learn how to represent data with different types of thematic maps?the dot map, the isoline map, the choropleth map, and the pro- portional symbol map?and see that your choice of map type profoundly influences the resulting spatial pattern. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing the chapter, you will be able to: ? Convert map scale to real-world distances. ? Recognize choropleth, proportional symbol, isoline, and dot maps.

Chapter 22 Test

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Chapter 22 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 27. The fate of the Confederate leaders after 1865 was that a. most were jailed for an extended period of time. b. several were executed for treason. c. all were eventually pardoned. d. none was ever allowed to hold political office again. e. several went into exile in Brazil. 28. In the postwar South a. the economy was utterly devastated. b. the emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence. c. the much-feared inflation never materialized. d. industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish. e. poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery. 29. At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

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The Unhealthy Chesapeake Disease cut off 10 years life expectancy for the early settlers in the Chesapeake Half the people born in Virginia and Maryland in its early years didn?t live t see their 20th bday Majority of early settlers were single men in their teens or early 20?s Men outnumbered women 6:1 Very few families Later gained an immunity to the diseases The Tobacco Economy Intense cultivation caused the soil to exhaust Caused demand for more land More Indian attacks Prices on tobacco dropped when it became more abundant (1.5 million pounds annually) Caused the need for more labor Indians died too quickly when near whites Blacks were too expensive Used indentured servants Frustrated Freemen and Bacon?s Rebellion

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Chesapeake An area home to the first American colonies, profitable to tobacco farmers. headright system Whoever paid the passage of a laborer received 50 acres. indentured servant Whites who sold their labor for 5-7 years for passage to America. Nathaniel Bacon A white planter who led a rebellion, killing natives and burning Jamestown. Governor Berkeley The Virginia governor who punished the rebels of Bacon?s troop. Middle Passage The transatlantic sea voyage bringing slaves to the New World. Royal African Company A company that lost its monopoly in selling slaves to the colonists. ringshout A West African religious dance that contributed to the development of jazz. ?FFVs? First Families of Virginia, which dominated real estate and legislature.

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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy (1790-1860) The Westward Movement American people were constantly on the move to the west Ralph Waldo Emerson?1844 ?Europe stretches to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond? Frontier life was difficult Food, clothing, shelter Loneliness Disease, Premature death Pioneers were Individualistic Shown in literature of the period Ralph Waldo Emerson??Self-Reliance? James Fenimore Cooper?Natty Bumppo?Last of the Mohicans Herman Melville?Captain Ahab?Moby Dick Shaping the Western Landscape ?Kentucky Bluegrass??really European bluegrass Grew well in KY once canefields were burned Great for livestock Lured more Americans into KY Trading in animal furs, etc. led to the near-extinction of many species Beaver, Bison, Sea Otter,

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How did the South react to Reconstruction (1865 ? 1877) and what was the plan to reconstruct the South (political, economic, and social)?

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The Second Inaugural Address of Lincoln Saturday, March 4, 1865 President Lincoln?s purpose for delivering the Second Inaugural address ? this formal ceremony marks the beginning of his second term presidency. President Lincoln had two major items in his agenda. One, the slavery (Emancipation Proclamation - Thirteenth Amendment) as a central issue of the Civil War (He viewed the Civil War as a punishment from God for the national exploitation of colored slaves); and he also kept in mind the Nation and possible reunification and reconciliation between the North and the South (Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction).

Brown V. Board of Education, George Wallace, White Resistance, and Little Rock Central High

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Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

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Brown V. Board of Education Rachel Robinson ALSO NEED TO DO WHITE RESISTANCE, LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL HIGH, AND GEORGE WALLACE!!!!! 1 Brown v. Board of Education The Civil Rights movement began in the 1950?s ? African Americans returning from war expected change, but they didn?t get it After World War II, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP?s chief council, focused on ending segregation in public schools In 1954, the Supreme Court combined several different cases and subsequently issued a general ruling on segregation in public schools One case focused on Linda Brown, an African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race

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