Social Issues
One social issue is unemployment. In 1998 5% of the American
population was unemployed. That is the highest in U.S. history.
Since their is unemployment there is also poverty. Another issue is
Health care. The price of health care has many patents mad. There
is a plan to cut health care prices this year. Homeless people are
another issue. I don’t the percentage of homeless people. The
government is doing its best to help the homeless people in
America.
Animals
Many animals need plants to survive. Different vegetation zones
home different animals. In the Arctic areas or tundra marmots,
caribou, squirrels and bears live. Also fish live in the Arctic these
are trout, grayling, and seals and walrus. In hardwood forest
moose, bears (black), deer and foxes live. Some birds live in the
forests. On the Gulf of Mexico there are pelicans, flamingoes,
alligators and snakes. These animals need a warmer climate to
survive. Animals that live in grasslands are bison, ferrets, prairie
dogs, and gophers. Grass fires are a problem for these animals. In
the mountains there is elk, pronghorn, deer, moose, bighorn sheep,
goats, timber wolves and brown bears. Many of these animals are
big game. The biggest carnivore is the Kodak bear. No large
animals live in deserts kangaroo rats and types of lizards live in
these areas. The only animal in Hawaii is the bat.
History
The first settlement in the U.S. was in Jamestown, Virginia in
1907. The leader was John Smith from London Company. They
had lots of trouble with famine. The very first humans on North
America were the Native Americans. It is unknown when they
arrived into North America. The U.S. began with only 13 states.
Between 1776-1861 it went from 13 to 36 states. On April 12
1861 the civil war began. It was the union vs. the confederacy. It
ended on May 26 1865. In total 600 000 were dead, and there was
$5 billion worth of property destroyed. Slavery was the main cause
of the war. They were debating on weather to have slavery in the
western states. People in the south deponed on slavery. In the north
slavery was illegal. The confederacy surrender in the end. There
have been 41 presidents. The first president was George
Washington, 1789-1793. The second president was John Adams.
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econlgl.berkeley.edu/multimedia/uneml.html
Encarta 99
www.nrdc.org/find/airbresum.html
