America 1 Flashcards
Areas of North America from East to West
- Appalachian Mountains
- Mississippi River
- Great Plains
- Black Hills
- Rocky Mountains
- Great Salt Lake
- Sierra Nevada Mountains
North American borders
- Canadian
- Mexican
Where is the Canadian Border
Top of North America
Where is Mexican Border
Bottom of North America
How many original colonies/states
13
Examples of original colonies/states
- New York
- New Hampshire
Types of frontier
- government
- natural
Government frontier
Man-made boundary
Natural frontier
Boundary that is nature
What were the Plains covered in
Prairie
Prairie
Grass
What did the Plains lack
- water
- trees
Weather of the Plains
- extreme heat
- extreme cold
Length of Great Plains
500,000 square miles
Which coast did European settlers live on at start of 1800s
East
Who lived on Plains
Tribes of Native Americans (Indians)
Animal attracting Indians to Plains
North American Byson - Buffalo
How did buffalos help Plains
Woolly fur carried seeds + dispersed them across land
Uses of buffalo
- food
- clothing
- shelter
- medicine
Manifest destiny
Belief of European settlers that it is their providence to expand and take over entire of North America
What did Europeans spread to achieve Manifest Destiny
- American way of living
- education
- technology
- religion
- farming + use of land resources
- way of government
John O’Sullivan
First used term ‘manifest destiny’ in magazine in 1845, causing term to spread
4 areas that needed to be conquered to complete destiny
- West California
- West Oregon
- South Texas
- Plains
Nomads
People who constantly travel around, do not settle
How were Indians Nomads
- followed buffalo
- controlled by weather (e.g- Canadian border very cold in winter)
Polygamy
Practice of having more than one wives
Pagan
Not christian, worship nature
Reasons Indians went to Plains
- disease
- horses
- guns
- buffalo
Reasons Indians went to Plains - disease
- Indians had little disease resistance, went to Plains to get away from disease
- smallpox 1795 - wiped out 30/32 Arikara villages, killed about 3500/4000
- smallpox 1830 - about half of Indian population of Mississippi Valley died
Reasons Indians went to Plains - horses
- originally none in America
- Spanish invaders brought them in 16th century, Pueblo Indians of Mexico revolted against Spanish (1840), gaining many horses
- useful - transport to Plains, better hunt Buffalo
Reason Indians went to Plains - guns
- traders brought guns to America, went to enemies (Ojibwa)
- Indians went to Plains to get away from guns
