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HISTORY OF USA

Prehistory

1st settlement not known

Prehistory….Pre-Columbian era

People migrated from Eurasia

Migration begun 30,000 years ago

Early migrant-paleoamericans

By 1400, hundreds of Native-American tribes live throughout North America.

Discovery

Columbus discovers America in1492.

Colonial period

Continued…

• first settlements were established in 1607•European brought animals and in turn took vegetables to their land•Many died due to disease

Italian colonization• Italian explorer Giovanni

da Verrazano explores New York Harbor

Continued…

Spanish colonization: In 1565, the Spanish establish Saint Augustine, Florida.

Continued..

 Dutch and French colonization• The Dutch colony was taken over by Britain in

1664

• New France was the area colonized by France from 1534 to 1763

English Colonization• The English establish Jamestown, Virginia, in

1607 and Plymouth Colony, in Massachusetts, in 1620.

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Political integration

The 13 colonies rebel against the British in 1775

American revolution•  The Declaration of Independence is signed on July 4

in 1776, and the United States of America is formed.

Early years of the republic

Revolutionary War• Revolutionary war lasts for 9 years

• America was free from England

U.S.AConstitution

The U.S. Constitution is written in 1787.

First President

In 1789,George Washington becomes

the first President.

Slavery

Slavery became an important part of American economy

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War of 1812•Britishers voilate american rules in order to hurt france.

•India supported British

•Congress declared war

•British was defeated and peace treaty was signed

• In the 1850’s 11 states decide to leave the country, or secede.

Divisions between North and South

• Southern whites----expansion of slaves

• Northerners ---anti-slavery

• Origin of civil war

Civil war

•  The Civil War ends in 1865, with over700,000 dead, but with the Union victory, the country remains whole

Women suffrage

• The women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women suffrage cont.…

Success of movement

By the end of the 19th century a few western states had granted women

• voting rights• gaining rights :as property and

child custody.

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In history of USA

Imperialism

• The United States emerged as a world economic and military power after 1890

• The main episode was the Spanish–American War Cuba.

World War 1

• World War I raged in Europe from 1914

– President Woodrow Wilson took full control of foreign policy declaring neutrality but warning Germany that resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against American ships supplying goods to Allied nations would mean war

WW1…

• the U.S. declared war in April 1917

–  American soldiers arrived at the rate of 10,000 a day, while Germany was unable to replace its losses.

•  Allied victory in November 1918

Great depression• It started with the Wall Street Crash in

1929.  It was global. It affected everyone, not just the US. 

Great depression

• steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment

• By 1933 some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks had failed

End of great depression

• measures by President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped lessen the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s

Japan bombs the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii in 1940

World War 2• the worst war in American history.

• the United States became a world power.

US was the only nation with the atom bomb (until 1949),

Civil rights

• Starting in the late 1950s,

• leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

• For years African Americans would struggle with violence against them

• Martin Luther King, Jr., who had won the Nobel Peace Prize 

Neil Arm Strong 1959

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9/11

• Al qaeda hijackers commandeered four airliners and crashed into both twin towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon.

• killing nearly 3,000 people, mostly civilians

 

war on terror

• In response on September 20, President George W. Bush announced a "War on Terror“

Attack on Afghanistan

• On October 7, 2001, the United States and NATO then invaded Afghanistan

Hurricane Katrina

• August 2005

• Hits coast Gulf

Invasion to Iraq

• in 2003, from March 19 to May 1, the United States launched an invasion of Iraq, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein

President Obama

• In 2008  Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the United States. and again in 2012

Iraq operation•  he officially ended

combat operations in Iraq on August 31, 2010

Osama Bin Laden

• In May 2011 the founder and leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan While Al Qaeda was near collapse in Afghanistan

Americans vote• Americans vote in a presidential election.