WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The groups treated each other as equals, and there was no discrimination.
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The groups were often in conflict over land and resources.
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The groups had different goals and did not need to compete with each other.
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The groups got along well, and there were very few conflicts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the popular mind, the Great Plains of North America consists of vast open spaces inhabited by cowboys, wheat farmers, oil-patch wildcatters, and roughnecks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Corn and wheat became the most important crops of the Plains, just as they had been in the more humid eastern states. The importance of hogs in the Middle West was paralleled by beef cattle in the Great Plains, and cattle typically were fattened for market on corn just like hogs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Prairie Provinces were settled by British, German Russians (many of them Mennonites), Ukrainians, and Scandinavians. Many of the immigrants were religious, thrifty, hardworking people who developed a strong attachment to the land.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indians encountered by English colonists posed no violent threat to the colonists.) The point of comparison is that the Atlantic coast Indians were not fierce warriors like the plains Indians. Thus they did not pose any kind of violent threat.