America In The 19th Century Essay

Introduction The United States (The US) got its independence from Britain in the year 1776. The treaty that made it a nation is the Treaty of Paris that was signed in 1783 (Yang 2012). Before the 19th Century, only 13 states were members of the US. However, during the 19th and 20th Centuries, 37 more states became members of the union. The country expanded through North America, acquiring more land than before and more possessions than it originally had. There are two main traumatic experiences that the country has. The first one occurred between 1861 and 1865 whereby the northern and southern states fought. The northern Union states defeated the Confederacy states (slave states) (Yang 2012). The second one is the Great Depression that occurred in 1930 whereby 25% of all the citizens of the country lost their jobs in the economic downturn (Mundi 2015). …show more content…
The climatic conditions in China are more diverse than those of the US. China has a subarctic climate in the north and tropical in the south. On the other hand, the US is more or less temperate, considering that Florida and Hawaii are tropical, Alaska is Arctic, and the plains of the Mississippi River are semiarid (Cavalli 2002). According to the July (2014) estimates, the population of the US is 318, 892, 103 while that of China is 1,355,692,576 (Cavalli 2002). Hence, it is clear that China has a very large population, compared to that of the US. In fact, the population of the Republic of China is one of the main drivers of its economy because of the consumption. While it is a fact that the US consumes more resources incomparable to its population, China is also a huge consumer of products and services because of its population. When it comes to urbanization, 82.4% of the total population of the US is urban, compared to only 50.6% of China (Cavalli