1. The name of the book is a reference to a popular moniker for the United States, as a country whose population, the Americans, is predominantly made up of non-Native American peoples who settled the country following the European colonization of Americas and the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies
2. The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.
3. The 1898 Treaty of Paris ending the war gave Cuba its independence and also ceded important Spanish possessions to the United States—notably Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the small island of Guam. ... The United States was suddenly a colonial power with overseas dependencies.
4. The United States' role as a leader in agricultural production and consumption is due in part to having climates that are good for agriculture, sophisticated infrastructure systems, the most arable land available, a variety of produce, and suitable amounts of rainfall and climate stability over a large portion
5. Here are some examples:
Racial diversity. ...
Ethnic diversity. ...
Rural and urban diversity. ...
Religious diversity.
6. Among the major service-industry sectors, the biggest was trade, transportation and utilities (27.8 million workers), followed by education and health services (24.3 million), professional and business services (21.5 million) and leisure and hospitality (16.7 million).29
7. syrup manufacturing, farming, fishing, logging, mining, and electronics are several.
8. Trade, transportation, and distribution; major cities are located near water.
9. Agriculture.
Oil & Gas, and Mining.
Construction.
Manufacturing.
Wholesalers.
Retail.
Transportation.
Utilities.
10. The first is natural increase--the excess of births over deaths. This factor by itself currently causes California's population to grow by about 1.1 percent annually. The second is net migration--the excess of people moving into the state over people leaving the state.
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