Very long story short, farming and sugar, as well as a port to china, east india and asia. and the islands were a prime place for a navel base.
<em>Ramona </em>by Helen Hunt Jackson
This book, published in 1884, was a description and celebration of Spanish and Mexican culture in California. However, these depictions were largely made-up and romanticized. Despite this, it created a tourist boom for the state, causing Americans to become interested and excited about California.
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(A) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is your answer.
The GDP takes all the profit a country earns through export, and subtracts it from the imports that the country takes in (To see if there is a profit). It is then divided by the amount of people that lives inside the country, so that they can find the GDP per capita (How much each person is given if all the money is split evenly.) For example, the GDP per capita for the US is almost $60,000.
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By 1860 almost half of the American people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains. In the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, was initiated with the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark´s expedition. I was also triggered by the California Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and "manifest destiny." Manifest destiny was the believe that Americans were meant to expand across all of North America.
