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NORTH AMERICAN

REGIONSII. Appalachian System

a. The Piedmont





Key

Red-Term to define and remember

Yellow-Place to locate and remember

Green-Resource to know andremember

Bright Green-Agricultural product

(crop) to remember White, Blue and Brown-Narration to

help understanding



Civil War Site

Piedmont



Stockade Fence

(Palisade)

What is the name of this place?





Notice the topography .

Notice the red clay soil .

What mineral is this a sign of?

Iron (Fe)



Highway signs

Which are statehighways?

Which are US(Federal)

Highways?



Agriculture

What cropsare these?



Peaches



Peanuts



Where’s

Waldo?Behling?



Atlanta 1996 Olympics







Trading Pins

Atl t CBD



Atlanta CBD



Coke Olympics

Coke Olympics



Coke Antidote

C l k



Centennial Park



Consequence of BombEntering Olympic Stadium







Connie Teaberry

Lutheran HighSchool North

P l V lt



Pole Vault



Carl Lewis



D thl



Decathlon

Javelin



110 Meter

High Hurdles

The Press



Michael Johnson









M ti ll



Monticello



Piedmontfrom Monticello

Noticetopography



Piedmontfrom the porch

Notice Topography

Why are there so many trees?

Answer: POOR soil!



Ridge and Piedmontfrom Monticello

Blue Ridge

Piedmont





M O N T I C E L L O



Thomas

Jefferson’s

Grave

He wanted to beremembered for:

1.

2.

3.

!



Charlottesville, Virginia



University of Virginia



The Rotunda

How is the style similar to Monticello?



The Lawn

D i f P i il d S i



Dormitory for Privileged Seniors(and Faculty)



Can you see yourself here?



Poplar ForestAnother home of Thomas Jefferson



Look Familiar?



Archaeology

What type of tree is this?

Magnolia

What crop is it?



What crop is it?

Tobacco



•Tobacco requiresmuch hand labor.

•Therefore fieldsare small.

•However profits

per acre arelarge.

•Also federal

governmentregulates tobaccofarmers.





Appomattox Court House Va





What’s this?

Well House



Bucolic, ain’t it?

Note: topography



Note: topography

Note: Soil (Fe)

Civil War Battlefield



Civil War Battlefield

Single bloodiest day in US history

Antietam, Maryland

Hint: Ridge



Why were so many Civil War

battles fought in the Piedmont?

Hint: Ridge



Antietam



Chickamauga, Georgia

Note



Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Note



Gettysburg

Little Round Top

Gettysburg



Gettysburg

Confederate lines

Devil’s Den



Atlanta

Charlottesville

Appomattox

Antietam

GettysburgNew York City

Boston



The City Started Here



e City Started Here



The Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn

The other boroughs are:

Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island



BrooklynStatenIsland

OrManhattan




h d






New York Harbor





Ellis Island

Therefore many immigrants settled here.

Why is New York the largest city in the US?

Answer: 1.New York Harbor is the best on theEast Coast, which is facing Europe.



New York City

Find the best pass

through the AppalachianMountains.

Answer 2:



Hudson River Valley

Tidal bore

New York is the Largest City in



New York is the Largest City inthe US because . . .

Best harbor

Location relative to Europe

Erie Canal connected it to the West

Battery Park--Site of New Amsterdam



New York, New York



,CBDs

Midtown

Downtown

Do nto n o Lo e M nh tt n



Downtown, or Lower Manhattan

Note the scale of the buildings!

There are few old residential areas left.



One of theld t



oldest

Greenwich Village





Washington



WashingtonSquare Park

r



H u d s o n

R i v e

GreenwichVillage

Notice thevariation in

streetpatterns.

Chinatown



Still today, New York is a very cosmopolitan city.



Also Downtown—the financial center





N A S D A Q



Trinity Church



Trinity Church





World Trade Center



World Trade CenterSite

Freedom Tower













New York, New York CBD



CBDs

Midtown

Downtown

Chrysler

EmpireState



ChryslerBuilding

StateBldg.

RockefellerC t



Center



k’



St. Patrick’sCathedral

United Nations





General

Assembly



Security Council



5 permanentmembershave veto

power.

United StatesUnited Kingdom

RussiaFranceChina



Marc Chagall



g





Times SquareFrom Google Images







Uptown

Central Park



Evidence of Glaciation (Ice Sheets)



Noticethe taxis



Upper West Side



Harlem

Upper East Side





Metropolitan

Museum

2011



Of Art

1993

2011

Frank LloydWright



Wright

Lee Ufan

Museum



Museum

Of

ModernArt





Van Gogh

Cezanne



Cezanne

Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon



Picasso







Wyeth



Warhol



Warhol

Definitions



Piedmont-a region of small hills or”foothills”

Monticello-Jefferson’s home inCharlottesville, Virginia (“Little Hill”)

Topography-the shape of the land

Ridge-an elongated raised piece of land

Glaciation-a period of time when an ice

sheet covered an area

Harbor-a sheltered inlet for ships (port)

CCCC

C. W. MorganA Whaling ship



g p

Mystic Seaport, Connecticut





Schooner Amistad

Mystic River (estuary)



Drawbridge



Rotating

Railroad bridge



Notice therocky shore.



What are these buildings?Answer: abandoned factories in Fall River,

Massachusetts.Why are mid-19th Century factories HERE?

Answer: Fall Line

The Fall Line Is . . .

The Fall Line Is . . .



The border of the Atlantic CoastalPlain and the Piedmont of theAppalachian System

A series of waterfalls and rapidswhere rivers fall off the hardmetamorphic rock of the Piedmont tothe soft sedimentary rock of the Plain

A series of cities located at thosewaterfalls

Cities are located on the fall linebecause:



because:

At the time of settlement the mostimportant form of transportation waswater.

And boats were forced to stop at thefalls or rapids = head of navigation

Later the falling water was used forwater power

Which attracted mills and people



New York City

Fall River

TrentonPhiladelphiaBaltimore

Washington.D.C.

Fredricksburg, VARichmond

Raleigh

Columbia

Augusta

ColumbusMontgomery



An old factory being put to anew use.

Definitions, continued



Cosmopolitan-characterized by manycultures with an outwardly looking worldview

Borough-formerly an independent county,

now one of the five sections of New YorkCity

Head of Navigation-the farthest you canget a boat upstream on a river.

Water power-formerly, using the fallingriver to turn a mill wheel

What crop is this?



Hint: We’re in Massachusetts.

Cranberries



Close Up

Plimouth



During what era would houses havelooked like this?

Hint: Massachusetts Bay

Making this a deep port for . . .



Note: the relatively steep slope to the bay.



The Mayflower

Old Ironsides



Boston



Old StateHouse

Sequent Occupence

Another Example



of Sequent Occupence

in Boston

The Old NorthChurch



Church

The steeple wasused in 1775 to

Reveal bylanterns if the

British werecoming

“one if by land,and two if by sea /

and I [PaulRevere] on the

opposite shore willbe.”

The Battle of BunkerHill M i l



Hill Memorial

Boston isthe site of



the site of

the first “public” school in

America.

Trivia: Boston is the largest state capital.

Which city is the second largest state capital?



Massachusetts Capitol



Harvard



Harvard quad(rangle)



Quincy, Mass.

Salt box



Birthplace of John Adams

Built in 1681

And next door is . . . .

John Adam’s homewhere the 6th president

f th U S b

JohnQuincyAdams



of the U.S. was born.Adams



John Adams “new” house, built in 1731

Unity ChurchQuincy, Mass.



Quincy, Mass.









he

Salem, Mass.

T

The House of theSeven Gables



Seven Gables

1668

Salem



Salem made its moneydue to its site during the

17th C t



17th Century.

Imports had to be brought here

To pay taxes





Salem Churchyard







New Hampshire



Note: Rocky coast

Camden, Maine



Widow’s Walk



Camden, Maine

Typical New England Houses



Wood



Note: building material

Wood

Note: Building Material

The



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