AZ History Document Walk

7th Grade Social Studies

Document Walk Directions• In groups of no more than 4 at each station, you will

move station to station analyzing each set of primary and secondary source documents.

• In complete sentences, answer each document stations set of questions on loose leaf sheet labeled “Arizona Document Walk.”

• The conversations at each table MUST be about the stations documents.

• Rotate from station to station in any type of order or sequence… go to a station with 4 or less students at the station.

HUNT FOR THE TOMB!• THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA WAS…

GEORGE W.P. HUNT

• THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA IS BURIED AT…

PAPAGO PARK NEXT TO THE PHOENIX ZOO

• THE TOMB OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA LOOKS LIKE…

A LARGE WHITE PYRAMID

Document #1President Taft Admitting AZ as a State

Arizona Territory and Statehood

• Arizona became a territory in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Arizona Organic Act. PRESCOTT is capital.

• President Taft signed the bill admitting Arizona as the 48th state on February 14, 1912. PHOENIX is capital.

• First Governor, George H.P. Hunt

• The Recall Scandal!

Document #2Map of United States

Arizona Political Time Line• Spanish Empire

• 1821: Mexico revolted from Spanish rule.• Arizona is a part of the Mexico

• 1850: Arizona become a part of the New Mexico Territory.

• 1853-1854: America acquires the bottom 24% of Arizona in the Gadsden Purchase.

• 1863: Arizona become a territory.

• 1912: Statehood

Document #3Arizona State Flag

Liberty blue from the United States national flag Arizona copper mining production

13 gold and red rays = 13 original colonies and the rays of the Western setting sun in Arizona. Red and Gold are the colors of Coronado's expedition

Document #4AZ Counties State Map

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LARGEST COUNTY

SMALLEST COUNTY

Gilbert

Document #5The Bisbee Daily Review

name of the newspaper

HEADLINE

February 15, 1912

PRIMARY SOURCE

Document #6Arizona 2008 State Coin

PRIMARY SOURCE

Document #7Arizona Geographic Regions

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BASIN & RANGE

COLORADO PLATEAU

TRANSITION ZONE Arizona shares the Sonoran Desert with Mexico… the home of the saguaro cactus.

AZ Geographic Regions

Document #85 C’s of Arizona

Document #9Arizona State Seal

State Motto: DITAT DEUS means GOD ENRICHES

• What strikes you as odd or unusual about this map?

• Before the Gadsden Purchase, what type of landform do you think formed the southern boundary of the land that would become Arizona?

• What resource might Nevada have been seeking access to when it acquired new land in 1866?

•What cities were acquired by the Gadsden Purchase?

•What cities benefitted from the coming of the Railroad?