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History of the USA I.

Daněk Ondřej

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The beginning

first populated by people migrating from Asia (30,000 years ago)

 Native Americans

1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered American continent

1607 – the first English colony founded (Virginia) – bad location, attacks of Indians, starvation

– tobacco plantations  beginning of the slavery

1620 – Pilgrim Fathers landed in the New World – the Mayflower

– the first Thanksgiving day

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Conflict with Britain

just for the benefit of the mother country

the Navigation Acts – certain goods only to England

“no taxation without representation” – no representatives in the British parliament

1773 – Boston Tea Party – of the protests against the British rule

1774 – 1st Continental Congress – boycott of English goods

1775 – 2nd Continental Congress – war against Britain began

1776 – Declaration of Independence

1783 – The Treaty of Paris

– freedom of the 13 colonies – own government and laws

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Early USA

1787 – new constitution for United States of America

1789 – first president – George Washington

1791 – Bill of Rights

1800 – capital city – Washington D.C.

settlers moving westwards, 45 states in the union

1803 – territory increased by the Louisiana purchase

1848 – Mexican war

– California and New Mexico acquired

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Civil war

The industrial North (Republicans) l The agrarian South (Democrats)

disagreement about slavery, new territory, collaboration etc.

April 1861 – Battle of Fort Sumter

July 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg

the largest number of casualties

war's turning point

1865 – Union victory

– slavery abolished under Thirteenth Amendment (Emancipation Proclamation, 1863)

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Rise of the USA

population growth – in 1860 31 mil, by 1900 almost 76 mil

the fastest growing industrial nation in the world

1866 – secret organization called the Ku-Klux-Klan

expansion to the west  wars with the Indians

1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn (defeat of US forces)

1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre

1886 – The Statue of Liberty

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Sources of information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqg_HUjxWe8

http://www.localhistories.org/america.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1230058.stm

http://

www.gml.cz/prof/zajickova/SEMINAR%204%20ROCNIK/BRIDGE%20MATERIALS/USA/10_histor y_of_usa.pdf

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States

https://www.zones.sk/studentske-prace/anglictina/5723-the-history-of-the-usa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg

http://www.americkecentrum.cz/strucna-historie-usa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

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Sources of pictures

[1]https://wallpapercave.com/wp/0qYRRWV.png

[2]https://

50a8d2.medialib.edu.glogster.com/vDFq9By00jUHK9ZzKj6Q/media/0b/0bab5acf6b61d8d939 9589f6387e3567cfd0358c/columbus.png

[3]https://www.history.com/.

image/t_share/MTU3ODc5MDg2Njk5NjUyODMx/by-nathaniel-currier.jpg

[4] http://www.nechtenasbyt.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/

washington.png

[5]https://

edu.glogster.com/library/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%

2Fcommons%2F1%2F10%2FUSA_Map_1864_including_Civil_War_Divisions.png

[6]https://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/statueofliberty1890s.jpg

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