How good are the conditions in this part of the United States?
At the beginning of the 17th century, before Western colonists settled in North America in large numbers, there were about 10 million Indians there. You must know that the Indians were still in the Neolithic Age at this time, and the only technology tree that was lit up was to grow a high-yield crop such as corn, which was more productive than the Neolithic in the Old World. In addition, the North American black soil, one of the world's three major black soils, is located on the Central Great Plains of North America, covering an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometers.
There is also a lot of wildlife on this continent, with 5 billion passenger pigeons alone. Until the early days of the United States, the number of passenger pigeons was astronomical. Naturalist Alexander Wilson, on a trip to Kentucky, came across a great migration of passenger pigeons, and unwittingly thought it was "a tornado that was about to destroy everything on the ground and on the house." ”
At that time, the Americans wanted to eat meat, and if they put a shot in the sky, they could drop pigeons with a crackle.
There are as many as 60 million bison on land. The largest herd is 80 kilometers long and 40 kilometers wide, covering an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of two or three counties in China.
Even before the Agricultural Revolution, the standard of living of the people of the thirteen states of North America was the highest in the world at the same time.
Before the outbreak of the American Revolution, a white freeman living in the colonies of the thirteen continents of North America could earn £16 a year, about 1.3 times that of a native British.
So, as a result, both before and after the independence of the United States, Europeans were very fond of immigrating to North America. During the American Revolutionary War, most of the Hessian mercenaries who helped the British suppress the Continental Army of North America remained in the United States after the war.
After the United States completed the first industrial revolution, Europeans were more willing to go. In the 40 years from 1880 to 1920, more than 20 million Europeans immigrated to the United States.
