GEOG 301 Final: GEOG 301 Final Exam Review - TAMU Smith
2 May 2018
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American Cultures:
• Elements of national identity:
o Race
o Language
o Institutions
o Religion
• The United States as an ethnic nation
o English stock
▪ People had to assimilate their views
• Phases of national identity:
o Anglo-American Phase: 1790 - 1865
▪ English heritage, language, and culture
▪ Creed: (Protestant, Republican)
▪ Democratic intolerance - demands everyone to be the same.
• Any truth applicable to himself seems applicable in the same way
to everybody else
▪ Blacks
• “No amalgamation, no homogeneousness”
▪ Indians
• Essentially separate and peculiar
▪ Mutations in the Native culture
• Mormonism
o Polygamy
▪ Chinese exclusion 1882 - 1943
• Differing in language, opinions, color
• “Impossible difference”
• Legally excluded
o Americanization Phase 1865 - 1922
▪ Molding Americans in ideas and sympathies
▪ Could transform anybody into American
• “Our religion and thought and institutions are adequate to change
everything.”
▪ Americanism - devotion to ideas and ideals
▪ A multi-racial monoculture
• The children of all the races and nationalities are to be fused
o Melting pot metaphor
o The Conglomeration Phase 1924 - 1965
▪ Not all wish to be fused into ideal Americans
▪ The older America, whose voice and spirit was New England, is gone
▪ No dominant American mind
• Chorus of many minds
▪ Potluck dinner metaphor
• People come together bringing different
backgrounds/values/religions/ideas/etc..
▪ The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
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▪ The Counterculture rejects the American creed
• Not a national community but a conglomerate of different races,
ethnicities, and subnational cultures
▪ Culture separatism
• Is group adjustment best achieved by proud and dignified
affirmation of one’s own heritage and its expressions.
▪ Are we a ‘we’, one people or several?
Southwest:
(I missed this class so if someone could add their notes that’d be great)
The southwest
1. The lay of the land
· Southern slope of the southern rocky mountains
· From the pecos river to the Colorado river
· North of the rio grande and the boundary line
· Trans-pecos (on the other side, beyond the river)
· Rio grande valley
· Colorado plateau, mogollon rim, Arizona desert
· Grand canyon
· Arizona desert- hotter, dryer
· Dry
· Little vegetation
· Rainmakers- orographic precipitation
2. Pre Columbian southwest
· Navajo country
3. New Mexico
· Established out of Mexico
· Reminded them of valley of Mexico
· Entradas- lines of penetration
· Hispanos- old new Mexicans
· Pueblos
4. The American southwest
5. Phoenix
(this (highlighted) is all i have for southwest, not very detailed, so feel free to add or replace
mine with yours if they are better!)
1) The Lay of the Land
• Southern slope of the Southern Rocky Mountain
• From the Pecos River to the Colorado River
• North of the Rio Grande and the Boundary Line.
• Trans-Pecos
o Beyond the land from the Pecos River
• Rio Grande Valley
o From El Paso to the Southern Rocky Mountain
• Colorado Plateau, Mogollon Rim, Arizona Desert
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• Grand Canyon
o The great Colorado Plateau…drops away abruptly in a long one of steep cliffs.
• Arizona Desert
o Leaving El Paso, we crossed the great Arizona desert, which lies between Texas
and California…The hot-witless sun…Fairly dazzles the eyes with its fierce rays.
• Colorado Plateau
o This vast area extending from the Rio Grande…to the Colorado…is a vast plains
which stretch over thousands of miles.
• Rainmakers Orographic Precipitation
o 1. Mogollon Rim, 2. Black Mesa, 3. Mesa Verde (San Juan Mts), 4. Sangre de
Christo Mountains
2) Pre-Columbian Southwest
• Navajo Country
o The Navajo Country…is a great mesa-dotted plateau stretch from the Rio Puerto
westward to the Painted Land in the region of the Little Colorado
o Athabaskan, who migrated to the Southwest around 1400
o Athabaskan farmers in the mesas north of the Little Colorado became Apaches de
las Nabahu, or Apache of the Fields.
o Athabaskan Hunters in the Mogollon became “Apache”.
• Oases Under the Mesas
o Water of good quality issues…at 30 to 40 springs about the edge of Black Mesa.
• Mesa Verde
o Due to its elevation…this mesa gets considerably more rain than other nearby
regions to the south and west.
• The Anasazi
o This culture survived on the Colorado Plateau, survived for more than two
thousand years (1200 BC- AD 1130)
• Rio Grande Pueblos
o The Pueblo are pre-eminently agricultural people that lived by the Rio Grande.
3) New Mexico
• Entradas
o Northward from the core the pattern was like a great fan, with thin lines of
sporadic settlements stretching a thousands miles or more.
• Farther north Hispano settled near the river pueblos, around Albuquerque, Santa Fe,
and Taos.
• Hispano Pueblos
o The soil of the valley of the Rio Grande does not look rich…but under the
Mexican treatment of irrigation…produces remarkably abundant crops.
• The Rio Ariba, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
• Santa Fe, Provincial Capital, 1608
o They stand around the public square and comprise the Governor’s house
• The Rio Abajo
o The section of the Territory where the system of irrigation is more extensive and
perfect, and where the land is under a higher state of cultivation.
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Document Summary
American cultures: elements of national identity, race, language, religion. Indians: essentially separate and peculiar, mutations in the native culture, mormonism, polygamy, chinese exclusion 1882 - 1943, differing in language, opinions, color, legally excluded. Impossible difference : americanization phase 1865 - 1922, molding americans in ideas and sympathies, could transform anybody into american. Southwest: (i missed this class so if someone could add their notes that"d be great) The southwest: the lay of the land. Southern slope of the southern rocky mountains. From the pecos river to the colorado river. North of the rio grande and the boundary line. Trans-pecos (on the other side, beyond the river) Rainmakers- orographic precipitation: pre columbian southwest. Isolation: 1598-1821: for two and a half century, new mexico one of the most isolated regions of. Interstate 70 (1990"s: the southern route to california, 1849-1881, southern pacific rr (1881)
