Chapter 12: The West

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Chapter 12 The West
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1 the West begins at the Rocky Mountains

• 3 areas in the West
• States in the Plains and in the Rockies
• States between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra
  Nevada Mountains
• States of the coastal area along the Pacific
  Ocean

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States in the Plains and in the Rockies

• New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana

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States between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra
Nevada Mountains

• Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona

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States of the coastal area along the Pacific
Ocean

• Washington, Oregon, and California

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Large cities

• Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles

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Biggest and most populous state

• California with more than 26,000,000 people

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2 A lot of beautiful open land in the West,

• fertile valleys
• good for Agricultural products
• fruits and vegetables, and cotton and rice

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Yosemite

• forested mountains
• famous national parks Yellowstone, Yosemite,
  and the Grand Canyon.

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Yosemite
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Yellowstone
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Grand Canyon
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• wide deserts in the dry Southwest
• the lack of water is a big problem.
• a severe water supply problem
• Phoenix and Los Angeles

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Hoover Dam
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Early History
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3 The first explorer and settler the Spanish
and the French.

• until 1803 the Louisiana Purchase
• US government bought Louisiana form Napoleon, a
  French Hero
• included Parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
  and New Mexico

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Louisiana Purchase 1803
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4 until 1821, the southwestern states belonged
to Spain and Mexico.

• The southwestern states
• California a, Arizona and New Mexico, Nevada,
  Utah and part of Colorado
• 1848 1853 the United States fought for or
  bought these lands

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5 Spanish explorers and missionaries the first
Europeans

• in 1540, the Spanish explorer Cardenas and
  Coronado saw the Grand Canyon, Arizona
• in 1609, Santa Fe, New Mexico, started as a
  Spanish trading post and colonial town
• the oldest city in the US where people have live
  continuously.

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Santa Fe
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6 In 1769,Spanish people began living in
California

• Juan Bautista de Anza founded Monterey and San
  Francisco
• along El Camino Real or the Kings Highway from
  San Diego to San Francisco

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Christian saints names for towns

• San Francisco
• San Jose
• Spanish towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico,
  Texas were named for Christian saints

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7 Today, many Spanish speaking people Hispanics

• living since the time of the original Spanish
  settler
• recently arrived Hispanics from Mexico and from
  Central and South America

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8 Important Spanish culture

• Spanish American art and building, Mexican food
• rock and popular music Santana and Los Lobos
  
• hit songs Richie Valens classic, La Bamba

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Theres Gold in California!
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1 The United States took most of the Spanish land

• in 1848, the Spanish land north of the Rio Grande
  River after the Mexican War
• In 1853, southern Arizona and New Mexico, from
  the Mexican government

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2 Gold made California important in 1848

• Found gold in the American River, near the Sierra
  Nevada mountains.
• Gold Rush year of 1849
• the news of Gold in California made more than
  80,000 people hurried to California

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3 Most of these Forty-niners went first to San
Francisco.

• San Francisco
• A small quiet town gt a 20,000-people city

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4 the Gold Rush brought many people to
California,

• became a US state in 1850
• the Pacific Coast was settled

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5 merchants and farming families looking for
good land.

• the pioneers
• through Death Valley in the southern California
  desert
• through Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada
  mountains.
• found new homes in the promised land along the
  West Coast.

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Death Valley Donner Pass