Close to people of similar ethnicities, cultures, and religions
Michigan entered as a free state as it was one of the most north states of the U.S and still is. That meant it was filled of people that had a bad tone towards slavery. Florida is one of the most southern states and was filled with cotton farms in northern Florida ( South Florida was uninhabited by Americans cause there were marches and alligators I;e Everglades) Iowa was also a free state. Iowa was near Michigan and also had a population that disliked slavery.
In 1905 representatives of 43 groups who opposed the policies of American Federation of Labour, formed the radical labour organisation, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW's goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class.
Americas and Oceania were similar in the way that first they both could developed experienced agricultural practices. Second, they could have their own distinct architecture, art and some other cultural characteristics with any influence from the outside. Third, some external groups sustained their nomadic hunter.-gathering lifestyle. And finally, both of them faced dangers of overpopulation and exposed of diseases they had never been exposed to. They both were different just because they developed large sophisticated societies in isolation merely.