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    Pennsylvania
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Great Lakes Plain meets the Appalachian Plateau in the extreme northwestern part of the state. The Appalachian Plateau stretches across...to the persecuted under conditions of equality and freedom...commercial centers. The economic and social development of W Pennsylvania...Government Reform and Economic Restructuring The powerful...
     
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    United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Coastal Plain; the Appalachian Highlands; the Interior...zone leading to the Appalachian Mountains . These ancient...E New England, the Appalachians extend in a few places...Plains , a treeless plateau that gently rises from...an arid expanse of plateaus, basins, and ranges...chains under abysmal conditions to work as slaves...matched, among major economic powers, only by Canada...religious freedom and economic opportunity. The first...However, economic and social growth continued, and...
     
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    West Virginia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...state is on the Allegheny Plateau, with the jagged Virginia...Panhandle, a part of the Appalachian ridge and valley country...lands, on a few small plateaus, and in the northern end...central importance to their economic life. Growth and Estrangement...pulled further apart by economic differences western Virginia...wages were low and working conditions dangerous. Unionization...state. During the 1950s economic weakness in the coal industry...
     
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    New York , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...dominated by the Great Appalachian Valley. Lake Champlain...natural route through the Appalachian Mts. Most of the southern...state is on the Allegheny plateau, which rises in the SE...and the Labor Movement As economic growth accelerated, political...being established. Labor conditions worsened but were challenged...reorganization of state finances, social welfare, and extensive...supported Roosevelts social and economic reforms. The Republican...
     
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    Ohio , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...dunes on Lake Erie to the gorge-cut plateau along the Ohio River, from which...industrialized, yet it also continues to draw economic riches from the earth. Among national...1763 forbidding settlement W of the Appalachian Mts. Then in 1774, with the Quebec...by wagon their numbers varying with conditions but steadily expanding the areas population...industry in NE Ohio shifted the center of economic activity from the banks of the Ohio...
     

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