The Midwest - Industries and Agriculture

The Midwest Industries and Agriculture

States:

-         Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska

Nebraska

-         one of the Midwestern States

-         which makes up America’s heartland

-         Midwestern States are geographical centre and the centre of American agricultures and industry

- Area ~ 200.000 sqkm

- Inhabitants ~ 1,6 million

- Capital – Lincoln

-         famous for the cattle and hog industries

-         also famous for its meat-packing centres

-         one of the leading grain-producers

-         there are firms which make electronic components, auto accessories, mobile homes and pharmacenticales

Manufacturing Belt

biggest and connotative industry area in northeast (USA)

-   the Midwest is a part from the M. Belt

- first connotative industrie area in the USA

- southern of the great Lakes

- States: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New

Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,

Delaware, Maryland

- Rivers: Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio, Hudson

requisites for the genesis

- very much worker (immigration from Europe for example from

England)

-         aspire from the immigrant after freedom and affluence, positive

setting to technical renewals

- system of a free social market economy

- good transport ways over the lakes => trading in europe

- richness at water; woods and other minerals (pit coal, ore)

-         specialization onto definite appanages in the industry in definite areas

(for example: Detroit – automobile industry)

-         on 10% from the state area life 48% from the population and 70% from the industriepeople