Summary: Geography

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• 1 Colonization and landscape

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• From when on did the the colonists inland?

  from 1800

• 1.1 The shifting frontier

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• What did America look like at that time?

  It was an empty continent with very little man-made landscape. Half a million Indians lived there, but they were spread over an enormous area as big as Europe. 

• Who were the fist immigrants and what did they do?

  The English, on the east coast they founded thirteen colonies.

• What happened in 1776?

  the thirteen colonies declared their independence from England. Together they formed the United States of America (US).

• 1.2 Landscape at forty degrees

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• In what Landscape do you start when you travel New York to San Francisco?

  at the Coastal Plain on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean 

• Where to you end when you travel from New York to San Francisco?

  at the Coastal Ranges on the edge of the Pacific. 

• What are the differences between the Appalachians and the the Rocky mountains?

  Appalachians are low mountain range: 500-1500 m
  They appalachians are old mountain range

• Where do the extensive Interior Plains lie?

  between the "Rockies"in the west an the Appalachians in the east.

• What are the interior plains?

  This is a large-scale agricultural area that is mostly flat

• What is the east part of the Interior plains?

  lower than 500 m (coastal Plain) and is known as the Central Plain. A lot of maize is grown in this region, which is known as the Corn Belt.