Create a map with your group that shows a layout of the portion of America that will be discussed during this unit. Poster board will be provided for you and your group to draw your map.
Your map will need to be labeled with key points of interests and events that took place during the unit covered with a short explanation of the importance of each place to the unit covered. Below is a list of events and points of interests that need to be included in your map. Please go beyond this list in adding additional important information Requirements:
* = label only farthest points |
Angel Island
Chicago* Detroit, MI Ellis Island Haymarket Affair |
Homestead Strike
Menlo Park, NJ New York City (boroughs)* Brooklyn Bridge* China Town* |
Coney Island*
Harlem* Liberty Island Little Italy* Pittsburg, PA |
Pullman Strike
Titusville, PA |
Anthracite Coal Strike
Chicago* Election of 1912 Federal Reserve Bank Locations |
Grand Canyon*
Great Migration Kill Devil Hills, NC New York City* |
Railroad lines controlled by Northern Securities
States w/ women’s suffrage pre 19th Amendment Tuskegee Institute Wisconsin |
Yosemite National Park*
Yellowstone National Park* |
Alaska
Allies (World War I) American Samoa Battle of Manila Bay Battle of Marne Battle of San Juan Hill Caribbean Sea |
Central Powers (World War I)
China Cuba Election of 1916 Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine Guam Hawaii |
Mexico
New York City* Palmer Raids Panama Canal Philippines Puerto Rico Schenck v. United States |
Sinking of the Lusitania
Sinking of the Sussex Spain Tokyo, Japan Treaty of Versailles U.S. Virgin Islands Wilson’s Treaty Tour |
Black Tuesday
Bonus Army Charles Lindbergh’s Flight Coney Island |
Dust Bowl
Harlem Renaissance New Deal Program Areas New York City |
Harlem
NY Stock Exchange Wall Street Prohibition Routes |
Scopes Trial
Teapot Dome, WY Tennessee Valley Authority Washington D.C. |
Allies (World War II)
Attack on Pearl Harbor Auschwitz, Poland Axis Powers (World War II) Battle of Britain Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Leyte Gulf |
Battle of Midway
Battle of Okinawa Battle of Stalingrad Battle of the Bulge Casablanca Conf. Concentration Camps (locations) D-Day |
Hiroshima
Korea Los Alamos, NM Nagasaki Nuremberg, Germany Poland Potsdam Conf. |
Operation Barbarossa
Tehran Conf. Tokyo Yalta Conf. |
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Airlift Britain Cape Canaveral China |
Cuba
East Germany Houston, TX (space race) Iron Curtain Israel |
Langley, VA
Levittown, PN N.A.T.O. Members North Korea South Korea |
Soviet Union
Taiwan U.N. Security Council Members United States West Germany |
Cambodia
China Greensboro, NC Gulf of Tonkin Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh Trail |
Houston, TX
Kent State University Laos Little Rock, AK Los Angels, CA Love Canal, NY |
Mai Lai
March on Washington Memphis, TN Montgomery Bus Boycott Tet Offensive Three Mile Island |
Vietnam
Watergate Hotel Woodstock |
Afghanistan
Africa Embassy Bombings Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole Camp David Challenger Explosion Iranian Hostage Crisis Iran-Contra Scandal |
Iraq War
Islamic State (ISIS) Israel Kosovo NAFTA Nations New York City Nicaragua |
Grenada
Lebanon Somalia Oklahoma City Bombing OPEC Nations Pentagon, VA Persian Gulf War |
Routes of 9/11 Flights
Saudi Arabia Shanksville, PA Soviet Union (former) Washington D.C. Waco, TX |