GEOG 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gateway Cities, Appalachian Mountains, Country Living
30 Aug 2016
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Industrial revolution causes a shift from rural/ country living to the cities for work and opportunities. Need raw materials and new markets from colonies fuels imperialism. Still goes on today the united state"s interests in the middle east and across the world imperialism still occurs. How does the us still exercise imperialism: resources in the rainforests, exporting jobs at lower wages. Imperial overstretch be able to explain it difficulty to maintain imperialism and hegemony because of the expense of running a far stretching empire spanish, british now usa. Growth of costal cities in europe because of flow through of people leaving for the colonies. Costal cities were central for trade with colonies they were the gateway from colony to motherland. United states huge trade along the mississippi and through the gulf to the rest of the world paddle and steam boats.
