When people began to settle west of the Appalachians in the late 1700s, they were mainly looking for fertile farmland. new plants and animals. a water route to the Pacific. sites for industrial development.

map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. for example, on a 1: 100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.

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