Farms and Factories Since 1900

Locate farming and industry, and explain the patterns.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 32

Back in World 2, you saw why Pittsburgh and Chicago grew. After 1900, the map kept changing. Use the key to read this product map.
Detroit became the car capital, near Great Lakes shipping and steel. Oil from Texas fueled the new cars. Wheat still filled the plains.
Movie makers moved to sunny Los Angeles. Seattle grew an airplane business. In Georgia, as cotton faded, many farmers turned to chickens.
Chicago kept growing as a meeting place for trains, then trucks and planes. Transportation still shaped the map. Highways let factories move away from rivers and rail lines.
Ask the same three questions as before: Who's nearby? How do goods move? What resources are there?

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS5G2.b — Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations since the turn of the 20th century and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resources have influenced these areas (e.g., Chicago's rapid growth at the turn of the century).
MGS.6 — Map and Globe Skill 6: use map key/legend to acquire information from historical, physical, political, resource, product, and economic maps (already mastered; apply and improve)