Assignment 2:
Settlement/Economic Development Essay
Outcomes
After completing this assignment, students will be able to:
Overview
In this assignment, you will analyze the physical aspects of one region and determine what effect these aspects had on settlement, both past and present.
Instructions
Submission:
To submit your assignment to your instructor, save your file and name in the following manner:
assignment02_lastnamefirstinitial (i.e., assignment02_coxj)
Submit your finished work to the assignment 2 link in the Submissions area of Moodle before 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on the last day of this module.
After completing this assignment, students will be able to:
- Explain how interactions between the people and physical landscape of South Carolina effect population distribution, migration patterns, access to natural resources, and economic development.
Overview
In this assignment, you will analyze the physical aspects of one region and determine what effect these aspects had on settlement, both past and present.
Instructions
- Using the reading from Topic 1.1-1.6 answer the following question:
- The physical geography of South Carolina affected where the Native Americans originally lived and their culture, as well as, where the early European explorers and settlers first established their settlements. Choose 1 region and discuss why settlers considered certain physical aspects such as the location of rivers, access to the coast, the climate, and the natural resources available. Make sure to include how these physical characteristics impacted later development in South Carolina cities and towns.
Submission:
To submit your assignment to your instructor, save your file and name in the following manner:
assignment02_lastnamefirstinitial (i.e., assignment02_coxj)
Submit your finished work to the assignment 2 link in the Submissions area of Moodle before 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on the last day of this module.
Grading
Grades on this paper will be based on the following rubric. Read it carefully to get a sense of the instructor’s specific expectations.
(Open the following Google Doc for the rubric)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByP2OgWyVvCNb1VEM0dOZk9xdGs&authuser=0
Grades on this paper will be based on the following rubric. Read it carefully to get a sense of the instructor’s specific expectations.
(Open the following Google Doc for the rubric)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByP2OgWyVvCNb1VEM0dOZk9xdGs&authuser=0