Transcript History of the USAx

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History of the USA
History of the USA in 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsH7Z_
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Early History
 Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the US for
thousands of years and developed complex cultures before
European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England,
after 1600.
 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers America
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 1501
 1519
 1534
 1539
 1577
 1585
 1609
John Cabot claims North America for England
Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America
Ferdinand Magellan is the first to go around the world
Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
Hernando de Soto explores south-eastern North America
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America
Henry Hudson explores North eastern America including the Hudson
River
Native Americans
The indigenous people of America came from Asia.
They spoke 300 different languages and are divided into 9 cultural regions
Birth of Independence
 1620 Mayflower brings Pilgrim Fathers from Britain to the New World. They
set up a new colony in Massachusetts.
 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the
Mississippi River.
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 It organized the new North American empire and stabilize relations with Native
Americans. No British settlements allowed west of the Appalachian
mountains. Settlers already in these areas required to return east.
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 1773 The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians
protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
 On July 4, 1776, the United States was born when 13 British colonies in
North America declared their independence. Though the colonies did not
have professional army like the British, they were helped by Britain’s old enemies
France and Spain. There was a war, which ended in 1783 with an American victory.
Washington and Constitution
 The first thirteen independent states were Delaware,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New
Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and
Rhode Island.
 In 1787, the United States drafted a constitution,
and in 1789 George Washington became the first
President of the United States. This was the
beginning of the so called “experiment in
democracy”.
19th century
 America expanded greatly in the 19th century. In 1803, President Thomas
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Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon Bonaparte of
France. The Louisiana Purchase added 2.1 million square km to the US.
1808 slavery is abolished
This period also saw many wars. The biggest and the bloodiest war America
fought was the Civil War,1861 - 1865.
The southern states tried to leave the union because they did not want
slavery to be abolished. They formed a new country, the Confederate
States of America, and went to war with the US. After four bloody years, the
industrial North was able to defeat the agrarian South, and the war came to
an end. President Abraham Lincoln wanted to allow the South to re-join
the union without penalty, but he was assassinated just as the war ended.
In 1898, the US went to war against Spain, and won from them many
islands including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
20th century and the Cold War
 In 1917 the US fought in WWI.
 The 1930s were the years of Great depression and
Prohibition
 America participated in WWII and ended as one of two
superpowers (the USSR was the other).
 The Atomic Age began in 1945 when the US dropped Abombs on Japan. This ended WWII, but afterwards the
US and USSR began a contest to dominate the world.
 The Cold War lasted over forty years and ended
with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. While
the Soviets were able to compete in technology, they
could not match America’s economy and natural
resources.
The 20th century highlights
 Hawaii, the last state was admitted giving the American
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flag 50 stars
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 President J Kennedy assassinated
March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a
dream" speech, Civil Rights Movement
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964
Vietnam
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
1991 Gulf War
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade
Center and The Pentagon
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Všechny uveřejněné odkazy [cit. 2012-11-01]. Dostupné pod licencí Public Domain na WWW:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#mediaviewer/File:Nordamerikanische_Kul
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States
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on_on_Civil_Rights,_11_June_1963.jpg
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