The US and Canada

3.  Lots of land
 Abundant Resources

4. Highlands Lowlands
East Appalachian Mountains
- smaller than Rockies
(erosion)
- Canada to Alabama
- Appalachian Trail
Atlantic coastline
- many excellent harbors
Gulf of Mexico
Interior
West

5.  Pacific & Atlantic Coast
 Great Lakes
 Mississippi & St. Lawrence Rivers

8.  Building Cities Where They Shouldn’t Be

9.  Trails & Waterways
 Railroads
 Highways

11.  How big is the US economy?
 7% of world’s land
 5% of world’s population
 World’s largest economy
 10% of all world’s exports

12.  Rust Belt v. Sun Belt

13.  Where have all the factory jobs gone?
 75% of working Americans in service sector

16.  65% trace roots to Europe
 Minorities
 Languages

21.  16th and 17th centuries; Britain & France
 Coastal fishing and inland fur trade
 France loses territory after French & Indian
War

22.  Roman Catholic French & Protestant English
 1791: Britain splits into 2 provinces
 Upper Canada
 Lower Canada

24.  1867
 Loose Confederation of Upper, Lower, & Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick
 Self-governing; still part of empire
 1871: Canada stretches from coast to coast

26.  1885: main line of transcontinental railroad
finished
 1895: gold discovered in Yukon
 Immigrants from other parts of Europe
 Cities and industry grow near the US border

28.  Independent
1931
 Parliamentary
 Federal
government
 Provincial
governments
 British
monarch
symbolic
head of state
 https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=6WNrsnRjtx
Q (canadian gov)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GADdPGkVuss (levels of canadian
gov)

29.  Farming, logging, fishing, mining
 5% of land good for farming
 13% of Canadians work in manufacturing
 1/8 of GDP

33.  70% of GDP
 More employed than other sectors combined
 Tourism (4% of workers; more than farming)
 Trade
 NAFTA
 78% exports to US
 52% imports from US
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfTkZmKK1b0 (longer)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-1YXChPRU (shorter)

34.  French, English, Native
population
 Metis
 Immigrants from all
over the world

35.  Bilingual country
 English majority; French minority (Quebec)
 Roman Catholic (French)
 Protestant (English)
 16% no religious affiliation

37.  Port cities
 Farmlands
 80% of pop lives on 10% of land
 100 mile wide strip just north of US border
 4/5 urban
 75% of French Canadians in Quebec

39.  Atlantic Provinces
 Core Provinces
 Prairie Provinces
 Pacific Province &
Territories