Transcript Important Places - Effingham County Schools

Important U.S. Places
5th Grade
Salton Sea
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The Salton Sea is an
inland saline lake, part
of the larger Colorado
Desert in Southern
California, USA.
One of the world's largest
inland seas, Salton Sea was
created by accident in 1905
when increased flooding on
the Colorado River allowed
water to crash through canal
barriers and for the next 18
months the entire flow of the
Colorado River rushed
downhill into the Salton
Trough.
By the time engineers were
finally able to stop the
breaching water in 1907,
the Salton Sea had been
born - 45 miles long and 20
miles wide - equaling 110
miles of shoreline.
The Chisholm Trail
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The "Chisholm Trail" was a
dirt trail used in the latter 19th
century to drive cattle
overland from ranches in
Texas to Kansas railheads.
The trail stretched form
southern Texas across the
Red River, and on the
railhead of the Kansas
Pacific Railway in Abilene,
Kansas, where the cattle
would be sold and shipped
eastward.
The Chisholm Trail
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The trail is named for
Jesse Chisholm who had
built several trading posts in
what is now western
Oklahoma before the
American Civil War. He
died in 1868, too soon to
ever drive cattle on the trail.
The Great Western Trail
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The Great Western Cattle
Trail - also known as the
Dodge City Trail and the
Old Texas Trail - was
utilized from 1874 for the
movement of cattle to
markets East. The trail
began at Bandera, Texas
and ended, most often, in
Dodge City, Kansas.
The Great Western Trail
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The entire trail extended
from southern Texas to the
Canadian border. Between
10 and 12 million cattle
were driven north from
Texas into Dodge City. It
was the western branch of
the Chisholm Trail.
The Grand Canyon
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The Grand Canyon is a
steep-sided gorge carved
by the Colorado River in
the U.S. state of Arizona. It
is largely contained within
the Grand Canyon
National Park - one of the
first national parks in the U.S.A.
The Grand Canyon
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President Theodore
Roosevelt was a major
proponent of preservation of
the Grand Canyon area,
and visited on numerous
occasions to hunt and enjoy
the scenery.
The Great Salt Lake
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Great Salt Lake, located in
the northern part of the U.S.
state of Utah, is the largest
salt lake in the western
hemisphere, the fourth largest
terminal lake in the
world, and the 37th largest
lake on Earth.
The Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert, locally
referred to as the High
Desert, occupies a
significant portion of
southern California and
smaller parts of central
California, southwestern
Utah, southern Nevada,
and northwestern Arizona,
in the United States.
The Mojave Desert
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It is named after the
Mohave tribe of Native
Americans. The Mojave
Desert receives less than
10 inches (250mm) of rain a
year.
Kitty Hawk
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Kitty Hawk was made
famous on December 17,
1903, when the Wright
brothers made the first
controlled, powerd airplane
flights four miles (6 km)
away near the sand dunes
known as the Kill Devil
Hills.
Pittsburgh
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The growth of Pittsburgh
and its economy was
caused by the extensive
trade of steel. The
American Civil War
boosted the city's economy
with increased production of
iron and armaments.
Pittsburgh
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Steel production began by
1875, when Andrew
Carnegie founded a
company, which eventually
evolved into the Carnegie
Steel Company. During
World War II, Pittsburgh
produced 95 million tons of
steel.
Gettysburg, PA
• During the Civil War, after stopping two
more attacks on Richmond, General Lee,
the leader of the Confederacy, decided to
invade the Union again. He marched
north into Pennsylvania. The Union army
met Lee’s soldiers on July 1, 1863 near
the town of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
• For two days the armies battled back and
forth. On the third day, Lee ordered a final
attack. Nearly 14,000 Confederate
soldiers charged across open fields
towards the Union army.
Gettysburg
• The Union army was ready. They stopped
the attack with rifle and cannon fire. The
heavy fire killed or wounded about half of
the Confederate soldiers. Lee’s weakened
army had to retreat. The Union army won
the battle of Gettysburg.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• On December 7th, 1941, Japanese
airplanes bombed Pearl Harbor, a U.S.
naval base in Hawaii. The U.S. Pacific
fleet suffered terrible damage and
thousands of soldiers and sailors died.
American President Franklin Roosevelt
called for war against Japan. He told
Congress that the day of the attack was “a
date which will live in infamy.”(something
that is shocking and evil)
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• What a site this must have been.
Montgomery, Alabama
• In Montgomery, Alabama, buses were
segregated. African Americans had to sit
in the back of the bus. In 1955 Rosa
Parks refused to give up her seat on the
crowded bus and go to the back. The
police arrested Parks.
Montgomery, Alabama
• Bus Boycott
Montgomery, Alabama
• Members of Rosa Parks’ church organized
a protest which was led by Martin Luther
King Jr. They asked all African Americans
in Montgomery to boycott, or stop using,
the buses. For over a year, the city’s
African Americans walked, rode, bikes,
and shared cars. In 1956 the Supreme
Court ruled that segregation on buses was
illegal.
Montgomery, Alabama
• Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery
Bus Boycott.