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Colonies
The 13 Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies or the Thirteen American Colonies, were a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries. The thirteen Colonies consisted of: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. -
Crossing on the Mayflower
The pilgrims were the first settlers to left for America.
They wanted to practise their religion freely: they were protestants.
They were a separatist group of the Church of England. On this board, there were also investors and merchants.
They left their country for their religion.Men wrote and signed a treaty: the mayflower Compact.They could make decisions and laws together.The pilgrims on the Mayflower thought it was good to associate the Mayflower Compact to the agreement to promote equality -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. American colonists objected to being taxed by the British Parliament.
So they wanted to split from Great Britain.
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Declaration of independance
The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress and by 56 delegates on July 4, 1776. It is a universal text. The Declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five. The text proclaims the birth of a new nation and represents a revolutionary act. The central idea of the text is individual freedom. -
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Western Expansion
In September 1783, the American Revolution was over. The treaty gave the United States the entire Old Northwest, ensuring American ownership of all lands east of the Mississippi, with the exception of Spanish Florida. Most of the land in the West was home to only various Native American tribes. Native Americans had lived on the land for centuries.
Between 1783 and 1815, the U.S. government decided to divide the land among the settlers and eliminate the Native Americans. -
Constitution + Bill of rights
The Constitution of the United States sets out the fundamental laws of the nation. It defines the form of national government, lists the rights and freedoms of the American people and the objectives of the government. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It applies on December 15 1791. It limits the powers of the federal government and guarantees freedoms of the press, religion, the right to bear arms and the right to property. It was written by James Madison. -
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Civil War and the reconstruction
The Civil War was a conflict that opposed northern and southern states between 1861 and 1865 as a reaction to economic issues linked to slavery and the enslavement of Black people. Reconstruction started in 1863 and ended in 1877. It is a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. Reconstruction abolished slavery. -
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Rise of industrial America
After the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones of steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded.
Industrial growth transformed American society. The labor force that made industrialization possible was made up of millions of newly arrived immigrants. American society became more diverse than ever before.
