North America is one of the fastest nations that became developed. The United States is only 233 years old, and we have already become one of the most socially developed and economically rich countries in the world.  North America was first populated by Native Americans. Then after Christopher Columbus found the Americas, many people came over from Europe and started settling English colonies here. They brought their guns and then completely pushed the Native Americans to the western half of North America.  They started settling down in the east cost of North America.

After America was formed as a country of itself, many people started to migrate over to America. People came from Ireland, because of the wars and potato blight, And from England, and Italy, and from all over the place.  The American population had no choice but to move out to the west. They settled out and created western territories.  At that time the Native American where pushed out of their final homes, and where made to move into reservations.

When the civil war broke out, many African Americans moved over to the south, because of their new found freedom there. The cruelty of the “Jim crow laws” also persuaded where they would travel. The civil war is a big example of settlement, because, depending on where you lived, decided what side of the war you where on.  

When industrialization came, many people moved over into the cities, especially the cities on the eastern half of America, like New York. For two reasons the eastern half of America is most populated. One is that the eastern half of America is where people first started living. And the second is that it is where industrialization first begun.