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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.
18TH CENTURY
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
19TH CENTURY
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.
20TH CENTURY
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
21ST CENTURY
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.