GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deindustrialization, High Tech, Tertiary Sector Of The Economy
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The extension of railroads across the continent in the 19th century facilitated the transportation of manufactured goods to the west as well as raw materials and eventually fresh produce to the east. Have thriving diverse, high-tech economies and flourishing populations. Residents are on the forefront of so many efforts to reduce human impacts on the environment that the region has been nicknamed ecotopia . European settlement and american indians and aboriginal peoples. The largest relocation, in the 1830s involved the choctaw, seminole, creek, chickasaw, and cherokee of the southeastern states. These people had already adopted many european methods of farming, building, education, government, and religion. Nevertheless, they were rounded up by the us army and marched to. Oklahoma along a route that became known as the trail of tears because of the more than 4000 native americans who died along the way. Today, reservations cover just over 2% of the land areas of the united states.