Key Geography Concepts
This term means where people, industries, and resources are located across space.
What is spatial distribution?
This part of the U.S. developed into industrial cities and trade hubs during expansion.
What is the East?
This is a factor that forces people to leave a place, such as lack of jobs or overcrowding.
What is a push factor?
This event triggered massive migration to California starting in 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This type of mining used high-pressure water jets and caused major environmental damage.
What is hydraulic mining?
This describes the movement of people and the reasons they move, including push and pull factors.
What are migration patterns?
This region became known for farming, ranching, and mining during westward expansion.
What is the West?
This is a factor that attracts people to a new place, like land or job opportunities.
What is a pull factor?
Approximately this many people moved to California during the Gold Rush.
What is 300,000 people?
This major bank helped finance economic growth during California’s development.
What is Wells Fargo?
This belief justified U.S. expansion westward across North America in the 1800s
What is Manifest Destiny?
This system connected the East and West and was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This group was forcibly removed or displaced during westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
This U.S. state was admitted in 1850 due to rapid population growth.
What is California?
This industry and brand became famous for supplying durable clothing to miners.
What is Levi Strauss?
This 19th-century movement involved U.S. settlers expanding territory toward the Pacific Ocean.
What is Westward Expansion?
This concept describes how different regions specialize in different economic activities
What is regional specialization?
This idea explains that migration reorganizes where people live and work, not just movement itself.
What is spatial redistribution?
This is an early example of global economic connections during the Gold Rush.
What is globalization?
This toxic substance from mining caused long-term environmental damage in California.
What is mercury?
This describes the process of people, goods, and money moving across countries, connecting regions of the world.
What is globalization?
This animal population declined due to hunting and westward settlement during expansion.
What are bison?
This refers to policies or actions that forced Native Americans off their land during westward expansion.
What is forced displacement?
This city became a economic center during the Gold Rush.
What is San Francisco?
This industry provided supplies and services to miners and often made more money than mining itself.
What are support industries?