the cold war is the right answer.
A biggie: the transcontinental railroad. Because it would economically improve wherever it was, both the North and the South competed for the railroad to be in their respective territory, evidenced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Gadsen Purchase and induction of California as a free state in 1860.
In addition: people could get land cheap because it was abundant and might leave to start afresh economically.
There's other stuff I can't remember as clearly, but there's a little and I hope it helps :)
Answer:
place, space, and scale
Explanation:
A geographer investigate issues from the view point of location according to place, space and the scale.
The place is an element of location that describes the position or the domain of occurrence of issue.
Space refers the area occupied by a body or the area where an issue is domiciled.
The scale refers to the magnitude at which an issue is view or observed.
Geographers tends to synthesize and combine these different lenses to observe and investigate an issue. Almost everything on earth can be correlated spatially using these lenses.
Answer:
1/4
Explanation:
According to the rank-size rule the nth largest country is equal to 1/n size of the largest country