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- The economy during this period, of 1955-75, was changing also due to the changes in __________
- __________ mainly from Western and Eastern Europe had poured in the United States about 14 million between 1860 and 1900
- To make room for settlers the US government removed Native Americans from their lands by __________ or by __________
- The ____________ arrived at about the same time during the 1600s and 1700s; they settled tot he south on rivers and bay son the Atlantic Coast from present day Maine to Georgia.
- By the end of the 20th century the United States would be the world's sole __________
- The French came along in the early 1600s and settled along the northern Atlantic Coast and the St. Lawrence River in what is now ____________.
- The building of the __________ brought people to the West and western cattle and products to markets in the East
- The United States had been protected from foreign conflicts by its two vast __________ - the __________ and __________
- With urban areas undergoing change more immigrants were pouring into the cities transforming the United States from a rural agricultural nation to an urban __________ one
- Some Americans started to migrate to the __________ and __________ in the last half of the 20th century
- in the second half of the 19th century millions of Americans settled on newly opened lands west of the __________ and in rapidly industrialized city of the North and Midwest.
- During this period of unrest the US economy boomed; despite some period of economic downturn or ___________
- The French and English fought in North America over _______________ and _________________ and in 1763, _______________ gained control of all of North America east of the Mississippi River.
- The tensions between South and North led to the _________________ in 1861-1865 which took 4 years fighting and more years of political conflict to reunite the country.
- In 1803 the United States doubled in size when the government purchased the vast plains region between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains from France known as the __________________.
- European colonies often displaced the _______________ and in 1617 the Europeans brought _____________ to America to work as slave laborers on cotton and tobacco plantations in the South.
- The coming of the Europeans also began what historians call the _____________________.
- In the 1800's _____________ from _____________arrived in great numbers and settled in cities in the Northeast, where industrialization was beginning.
- _______________ is people placing loyalty to their region, or section, above loyalty to the nation.
- The free open land that had been available and suitable for settlement was known as the __________ and was now fully settled