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the 13 Colonies
1607 Foundation of Jamestown and the first colony: Virginia.
1732 Foundation of the 13th colony: Georgia.
At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, England embarked on a policy of colonial conquest. Rivalries with France and Spain, the desire to become a maritime power and to discover the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean encouraged London to explore and then colonize North America. -
the American revolution
The American Revolution was a period of political change after 1763 in the thirteen British colonies in North America which gave rise to the United States' War of Independence against Great Britain (1775-1783). -
Declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, is a political text by which the thirteen British colonies in North America seceded from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, to form the "United States of America". America ". -
Western Expansion(1783-1880)
The idea of a promised land in the west is growing among the population of the east. In the 1840s, the belief in an almost divine right of the American people to appropriate the lands of the West, despite the presence of Native Americans or other nations, was called "Manifest Destiny." Colonists settle in Texas where they proclaim their independence Mexico in 1835 -
Constitution+ Bill of rights
The Bill of Rights is the set of the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. It limits the powers of the federal government and guarantees freedoms. Adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789 and Congress on September 26, it was gradually ratified by the federated states, and took effect on December 15, 1791, date of ratification by Virginia -
Rise of industrial America (1860-1900)
Between 1860 and 1890, industrial production multiplied by 11. The United States became the world's largest producer of coal. Industrialization mainly benefits the Manufacturing Belt in the northeastern United States. The South has developed processing industries but remains economically dependent on the North. In 1873, the product per capita in the United States surpassed the product per capita in the United Kingdom, then the world's largest economic power. -
Civil war (1861-1865)+Reconstruction(1865-1877)
The Civil War in the United States war that occurred (1861-1865) between the USA, led by Abraham Lincoln, and the Confederate States of America, led by Jefferson Davis and bringing together eleven southern states that had seceded from the United States.The Reconstruction From 1865 to1877, it saw the end of the slave regime of the Confederation, the return of the Southern States to the Union and the failure of the integration of the Afro-American freedoms in the former Southern States
