Western Expansion:

By the Numbers

EXPLORE this multi-media text set

Keep in mind these essential questions:

How do we discover meaning from historical data?

Where can historians find evidence?
What kinds of ways can data be presented?

Jot down thoughts, and answers

Links & Texts
to the questions
BEFORE
Key Events
Which single event do you think was
the most important?

What event do you want to know

more about?

Watch this animation of U.S.

population growth across the
country.

Closely watch the animation a couple

of times. See when and where top
urban areas (in Orange) appear.

In what decades census data did the

SF Bay Area become an Orange, or
top ten-percent urban center?
When did Los Angeles turn Orange?

Try this interactive map to see the

moving frontier line.

Map of U.S. land acquisitions

When did the U.S. annex the

Republic Texas?

When was the territory that contains

California acquired by the U.S.?

Referencing the two graphs below,

why do you think Population growth
and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth curves are so similar?
Important VOCAB to know!
Look at some other vocabulary sets
for Western Expansion and BE
PREPARED!!!

Click through the link to a table

containing U.S. Census Data for
Immigration.

Using the ZOOM/MAGNIFICATION

ICON, can you find the Census Year
when Chinese Immigration to the
U.S. first spiked?

How about this...according to data

from the 1850 census report, what
group had the highest immigration
to the U.S.?

In what census years did immigration

from Germany, Italy, Japan, and
Mexico peak?

Microcosm: What conclusions can

you draw from this map of Chicago?

Macrocosm: Take a look at where

different groups of immigrants
settled across the U.S.

Does this map show a similar or

different result on a larger scale?

AFTER