Advanced Geography . s had been madefor spinning or twisting fibers into thread and for weaving thethread into cloth. There was a large and growing demand forcotton. The new machine made it possible to supply this fiberwithout great expense and thus led to theplanting of cotton in all the states of theSouthern plains. Cotton has for manyyears been the leading crop in that region. Soon after the first English colo-nists came to this country, they re-ceived a cargo of slaves from spread with the growth ofthe country, but the slaves provedto be of greatest service in the cot-ton an
Advanced Geography . s had been madefor spinning or twisting fibers into thread and for weaving thethread into cloth. There was a large and growing demand forcotton. The new machine made it possible to supply this fiberwithout great expense and thus led to theplanting of cotton in all the states of theSouthern plains. Cotton has for manyyears been the leading crop in that region. Soon after the first English colo-nists came to this country, they re-ceived a cargo of slaves from spread with the growth ofthe country, but the slaves provedto be of greatest service in the cot-ton and the tobacco fields of theSouth. The invention of the cotton gin created a great demand for slave labor in the cottonfields, and people of the black race were brought in ship-loads from Africa. At length all the slaves in our country were set free,and most of them made their homes on the Southernplains where they had worked and where many of themhad been born. One tenth of the people in the UnitedStates are Market in Chinatown, San Francisco. About fifty years ago, gold was discovered in California,and many thousand people flocked there in search of for-tunes. Some toiled across the dry Western plains and theRocky mountain highland. Others reached the goldfields by way of the isthmus of Panama, — going by waterto and from that neck of land. Shiploads of gold-seekerswent round cape Horn and thence up the Pacific coast toSan Francisco. Gold in the Sierra Nevadaled to the settling of California; butproducts of far greater value are nowtaken from the grainfields, the vineyards,the fruit groves and the pastures of thatstate. Silver and gold have also beenfound in other parts of the western high-land, and towns and cities have grown upin many places near the rich mines. In 1776 the population of the UnitedStates was less than 3,000,000. Now it isabout 70,000,000, — nearly one twentiethof the total population of the world. The rapid growth of our country hasbeen largely
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