WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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the Louisiana Purchase
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California
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Florida
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Texas
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are fifty (50) states and Washington D.C.The last two states to join the Union were Alaska (49th) and Hawaii (50th). Both joined in 1959.
Detailed explanation-2: -the West, region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Detailed explanation-3: -The West generally was the last region of the United States to be settled and developed. However, parts of the region were settled before the colonies on the East Coast were established.
Detailed explanation-4: -A common way of referring to regions in the United States is grouping them into 5 regions according to their geographic position on the continent: the Northeast, Southwest, West, Southeast, and Midwest.