Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Outline

The western area of the modern day United States remained largely unoccupied by American settlers for the first century of the country’s existence. The slow colonization was due to a variety of factors preventing successful, efficient, and safe occupation of the area. Likely one of the most influential factors was a simple logistical problem: traversing the continent prior to the advent of mechanized, overland transportation was extremely difficult, if not dangerous. This was not the only issue affecting would-be western settlers, but it was the first necessary challenge to overcome before any consideration of establishing a homestead. The development of a railroad network was the most important limiting factor in western settlement, and the

Gall Peters Map In the episode “Cartographers for Social Equality,” from the TV series West Wing, Dr. John Fallow, Dr. Cynthia Sales, and Prof. Donald Huke a group of map makes that work for the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality are presenting what they believe is the right map to eliminates bias towards 3rd world countries. They are requesting that the President replace the Mercator map with the Peter’s Projection map and make it mandatory map for all U.S. Schools. Their presentation is to convince the White House Press secretary C.J Cregg and White House Deputy Chief of Staff to explain their request on replacing the Mercator map.

Settling in Charles Town That place called Charleston, South Carolina once started off as Charles Town. A man named Sir Robert Heath sparked interest to this land which caused the English to come over. The first settlement was founded at Albemarle Point but it was not easy. Settling was difficult in Charles Town because geography, resources and disease.

Western Expansion Western expansion is the populating of the western part of the United States. This event took place in the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, and it was the western area of the United states expanding to the pacific area of America. This event took place in result of the Manifest destiny, gold rush of 1849, the homestead act, and railroads.

In the 17th century England, sent ships to North America to try and colonize North America. There were three regions of colonies set up in the England colonies. There were the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Each region was different in many ways. Settlers brought their values with them, and their personal reasons for coming over to North America.

With this statement, Mackinder makes a claim and says that no rational political geography can function without being built upon the ideas of physical geography. He says the idea of political geography is currently based upon no principles of physical geography and must not be considered a true discipline. This defines the complex and typically unseen relationship between political and physical geography, “Geography is like a tree which early divides into two great branches, whose twigs may none the less be inextricably interwoven.” (Mackinder 159). After Mackinder makes an interesting claim about how the rivalry between physical geographers and geologists are perceived.

Human geography has a wide variety of different factors, one of those many is political geography. Political geography is mainly focused and influenced by political affairs and human territoriality. With this there are different factors that were created within political geography such as, nation, nation-state, multinational state and united-nations. There are factors of our globe which are shaped by imperialism and colonialism. All these make up our world all in different places.

Because the first four chapters of Louisiana: The History of an American State create a vivid picture, producing illustrated summaries becomes easy. Illustrated summaries represent the understanding of a chapter. These are four different images that can represent Louisiana’s culture, geography, economy, and government. Chapter 1 in the textbook discusses culture, which includes festivals, regions, and people. The image that represents Ch.1, Louisiana’s culture shows the five cultural regions, Mardi Gras beads, and music notes.

That is why projections were created. To illustrate the world in the most unbiased way possible, cartographers created projections in order to aid people’s comprehension of the world. The mercator projection is probably the most common projection but is extremely biased. The mercator projections is biased towards the northern hemisphere because it was generally used for navigation. The Peter’s projection was created as a result of the Mercator being so inaccurate.

Prior to the very famous GPS, or Global Positioning System, voyagers used a technique called Dead Reckoning. Dead reckoning was used for centuries by sailors, to determine the position of their ship in the ocean. They were able to determine their location based upon the ship’s prior positions by paying close attention to the speed and direction of the ship. To determine the direction of the course, a compass was used. While the speed was calculated by the use of a log and a line.

you will compare and contrast the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Desert Lands Act of 1877. Some things to consider: What were the goals of both Acts? Were they successful? If so how?

Topic: The Bermuda Triangle General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Bermuda Triangle has some scientific reasons which effects a lot of mysterious incidents. Central idea: Despite it is a dangerous and mysterious place, but Bermuda Triangle has so much of attractive places to visit. INTRODUCTION I. Bermuda Triangle is a part which is situated in the North of Atlantic Oceon. The Bermuda Triangle covers about 500, 000 miles of the sea around the world. The Bermuda Triangle is roughly bounded by three places.

Whether you find a map on a piece of paper or on a screen, the map is usually drawn to scale. “Scale” means how much space on the map equals a distance in the real world; for example, one inch on a map could equal one mile in the real world. Mapmakers can explain the scale in two ways. They can draw a line at the bottom of the map and write how long that line is in real life. They could also can write it as two numbers: one number to tell the distance on the map and the other number to tell what the distance is in real life.

Positivism in physical geography is applied through a number of steps: establish research problem, establishing data sources: primary and secondary sources, selecting samples: random and not-random and methods of analysis: statistical techniques. In physical geography the positivistic approach is normally applied through the scientific method, but this is not the only way in which the positivistic approach is applied. There is also an aspect of realism to the positivistic approach as geographers need to assume there is an external reality that is capable of being examined. A careful measurement should be taken as measurement often alters measured entity. Through positivism physical geographers use reductionalism, which is done by only picking a representation of variables to observe and measure.

For example, the landmass of Africa is 15 times smaller than Greenland, yet in reality they appear to be equal is size. Secondly, the Peter projection creates the landmasses as equal, contrary to the Mercator projection