Name:_______________________
Date:___________________
Ch 23 Map Activity – Nation-Building & Economic Transformation in the Americas
A) Territorial Growth of the U.S.A. / Analyze the 1st map, and complete the following questions.
1. In 1800, the United States consisted of 16 states. Name all of these.
2. The land acquired by this purchase of 1803 essentially doubled the size of the United States.
3. What was the only body of water to which U.S. ships had access prior to 1812?
4. By 1820, the United States had five states that bordered the Great Lakes. Which are they?
5. By 1850, the United States had added which two states to the group of states that bordered the
Great Lakes?
6. With which country did the United States go to war in 1848 over what is now much of the
United States' western and southwestern territory?
7. Which southern state, one of the largest in the United States, was annexed in 1845?
8. In which city did the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Trail converge?
9. To which coastal state did the Central Pacific Railroad transport foodstuffs from the Midwest
by the mid-1800s?
10. In the mid-nineteenth century, the British and the northern United States disputed over this
territory.
Name:_______________________
Date:___________________
Ch 23 Map Activity – Nation-Building & Economic Transformation in the Americas
B) Canada, 1871 / Analyze the 2nd map, and complete the following questions.
1. Which three oceans surround Canada?
2. Which river drew Canada's earliest population to settle along its banks?
3. Which commodity appears to have drawn early settlers to the wilds of Hudson Bay?
4. The edge of Lake Superior and Lake Huron were rich in which two commodities?
5. Which province occupies Canada's west coast?
6. To which body of water does the Churchill River connect Canada's western residents?
7. In the late eighteenth century, what city in the province of Quebec had a population of more
than 100,000?
8. If you were to judge by place names, what region would you think was settled mostly by the
French?
9. Which central Canadian province was most heavily settled from 1871 to 1901?
10. Which river crosses through both British Columbia and the northwest corner of the United
States?
Name:_______________________
Date:___________________
Ch 23 Map Activity – Nation-Building & Economic Transformation in the Americas
C) Latin America in 1830 / Analyze the 3rd map, and complete the following questions.
1. This former Portuguese colony gained independence in 1822.
2. This country's most important cities include La Paz and Sucre.
3. Simón Bolívar won the presidency of this nation in 1819.
4. This nation was once the heart of the Inca Empire.
5. The Andes Mountains form the eastern border of this neighbor of Argentina.
6. After the Spanish-American War, the United States took effective control of this large
Caribbean island nation.
7. This country lost much of its territory to the United States over the course of the nineteenth
century.
8. This country is the only landlocked South American nation.
9. Why did the newly independent Latin American countries find it so difficult to achieve
stability?
10. What accounts for the differences in racial classification in Latin America and the United
States?
Name:_______________________
Date:___________________
Ch 23 Map Activity – Nation-Building & Economic Transformation in the Americas
D) The United States, 1850 – 1920 / Analyze the 4th map, and complete the following questions.
1. By 1920, this region had achieved a density of railroads similar to the Northeast.
2. This railroad that passed through Nevada and Utah connected the east with the west.
3. This region had no railroads in 1870.
4. This state had one short railroad in 1870 and a substantial network in 1920.
5. Goods traveling from New York to California by water in 1920 passed through these three
bodies of water.
6. Choosing from these three states (Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky), click on the state that
entered the union LAST.
7. Choosing from these three states (Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho), click on the state that
entered the union FIRST.
8. Choosing from these three states (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming), click on the state that entered
the union FIRST.