AMERICA II

HOW DID THE COMING OF THE EUROPEANS CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF USA?
The landscape of USA changed drastically after the coming of the Europeans.
The Europeans treated the land differently than the natives.
As the people could buy property at a low price, they cleared land and started
cultivating it with crops that could not be grown in Europe like cotton, rice etc.
Large tracts of the Prairie grasslands were cleared to create the Cotton Belt,
Wheat Belt and Corn Belt.
To protect the large farms from wild animals these were extensively hunted and
many of them became extinct like the bison.
They felt totally secure only with the invention of the barbed wire in 1873.
LISTS THE RESULTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION OF US
Railways were developed to transport goods to distant places and link them.
Machineries were manufactured to make large scale farming easier.
Industrial towns grew and factories multiplied both in USA and Canada.
USA emerged as a leading industrial power by 1890.
Large scale agriculture was expanded.
Vast area was cleared and divided into farms.
The Bison was exterminated thus ending the means of subsistence for the
natives who would live by hunting them for centuries.

By 1892 USAs continental expansion was completed.

The area between the Pacific and the Atlantic was divided into states.
Within a few years USA was establishing its own colonies in Hawaii and the
Philippines.
It became an imperial power.