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1837 BCE
1837AD - 1871AD
Over the past decades, the USA has continued to acquire vast new territories, taking the US right to the Pacific. It has been an unstoppable movement against which Mexico has been unable to stand.
In the far northwest of the continent, the USA has purchased Alaska from the Russians (1867). -
1648 BCE
1648AD - 1789AD
The past half century has seen prosperous societies of European culture take strong root in eastern North America.
Most of the British colonies on the eastern seaboard have rebelled to form a new nation, the United States of America. The small British colonies in present-day Canada, together with the old French colony, remain under British rule. Much of the rest of the continent is under Spanish rule, which, in North America, is centered on Mexico. -
Period: 1648 BCE to 1789 BCE
1215AD-2005AD
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1215 BCE
1215AD - 1453AD
In the South-West of the present-day USA, a long dry spell has had a disastrous impact upon the agricultural societies of the Hohokam and the Anasazi. Many farming villages have been abandoned and people have moved away from their historic homelands. -
Apr 18, 1453
1453AD - 1648AD
The previous two centuries have seen dramatic changes in the racial and cultural makes up of North American populations. In the south, Mexico and Central America have become part of the huge Spanish empire. Spanish explorers had dared to explore up into the southwest USA, followed by a handful of missionaries and traders. There has, however, been little by way of settlement in these arid regions. -
1789AD - 1837AD
The dominating theme of recent decades has been the westward expansion of the USA, aided by the acquisition of vast new lands and the strong, steady westward migration of settlers. To the north, society in Canada remains anchored to the east, but fur hunters. have pushed along the rivers and lakes far into the interior. -
1871-1914
The recent decades have been years of unprecedented industrial expansion, laying the foundations for the continent's pre-eminence in the 20th century. Transcontinental systems of transport and communications - the railroad, the telegraph and the telephone - tie the economies of the USA and Canada into an integrated whole. -
1914AD - 1960AD
Over these past few decades, the exepriences of the USA and Canada have been broadly similar, though with significant differences. For both nations, despite the Great Depression of the 1930's,
