WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Snake River, Mississippi River, Columbia River, Missouri River
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Nile River
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Amazon River
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Rio Grande
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Detailed explanation-1: -Arkansas River It flows west to east starting in Colorado and dumping into the Mississippi River. Its length of 1, 469 miles (2, 364 km) allows it to flow through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, is about 100 miles longer. Some describe the Mississippi River as being the third longest river system in the world, if the length of Missouri and Ohio Rivers are added to the Mississippi’s main stem.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our Big Rivers: The Missouri and The Mississippi Louis. Between its headwaters in Montana and its confluence with the Mississippi at St. Louis, it is 2, 341 miles long-the longest river on the continent.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mississippi is joined by the Illinois River and the Missouri River near St. Louis, Missouri, and by the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. The Arkansas River joins the Mississippi in the state of Arkansas. The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana is a major distributary of the Mississippi.