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Period: May 23, 1490 to
USA:s history
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May 23, 1492
Columbus comes to USA
He went across the Atlantic to find a new sea route to India than Vasco da Gama did. He reached America in 1492. Then he thought he had found a western sea route to India.
Later life: Columbus had always indicated conversion of non-believers as one reason for his explorations, and he became increasingly religious in his later years. He claimed to hear divine voices, advocated a new crusade to capture Jerusalem, often wore Franciscan habit. -
May 24, 1524
New York
New York has been inhabited for more than 11,000 years of Indianer.Upptäcktes in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzana.
The Dutch settled in as the first Europeans in New York city 1600.
1625 The Dutch bought Manhattan from the Indians up and created the colony of New Amsterdam.
1664 took over the British colony and named it New York after the English city of York.
1673 resumes the Dutch area.
In 1674 signed peace between the English and Dutch
On July 4, 1776 is New York independently -
Colonies
In 1600, there were English and French colonies in the U.S. -
General Custer
General Custer was an American cavalry officer who fought very much against the Indians. Kvalleriofficer means that there was an army that fought sitting on horses and Custer was an officer for the army. He died in the legendary Battle of the Little bighorn, he died from the Indians and it was one of the few times somförlorade against the Indians. -
Indianwar
There were Indian wars from 1622 to 1918.
The people killed all the Indians as soon as they saw an Indian, this went on for several years.
The Indians were driven away in the great war when they were forced to put themselves in their own sanctuary.
Then came George Armstrong Custer with 225 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry and was killed by sitting bull coalition Braves. All Indians surrounded Custer and his soldiers and killed them. It was the legendary battle of little big horn. -
Washington D.C
The capital, Washington DC has been placed where it is now because of a compromise in the political sphere.
The United States was founded by Congress gathered in the city of Philadelphia,
At the end of the 1700s it was decided to establish a new federal capital to the United States. They wanted the city to lie further to the south and the site chosen was between Maryland and Virginia, where Washington is located today. -
More of Washington D.C
The site was chosen by George Washington who was then America's first president.
The capital became official December 1 1800.
Washington was the first name of the capital, but DC added which means the District of Columbia.
After the city was proclaimed the capital in early 1800, the town grew very slowly at first and it was because it was hard-up thanks to the then completely outdikade swamp that formed the city's land. -
George Washington
Born February 22 in 1732
Died December 14, 1799
America's first president 1789-97
He participated in the war against France, 1755-63
was appointed in July 1775 to commander of colonial forces in the war against Britain.
Washington was chairman of the Convention which drafted the U.S. Constitution, and in 1789 he was elected unanimously as president.
George is one of the four depicted the faces of Mount Rushmore.
He married Martha Dandridge Custis 1757th -
Chicago
In the middle of the 1700s was inhabited by Indians present Chicago. The area became part of the United States after Grenville agreement with Indians 1795th The city of Chicago was founded August 12, 1833 with a population of about 350 people. With the city's growth over the next few years gave Illinois town city rights 4 mars 1837th Much of the town was destroyed in the great Chicago fire of October 8 to 10 1871st The town was rebuilt almost immediately after the fire. -
Britian
In 1763, Britain control of North America -
France to relinquish its colonies
The French in the north (now Canada) penetrated to the Great Lakes and thence south along the Mississippi River. They clashed with the English and a war for control of North America began. Although some Native American tribes supported the French won the British troops and France have peace in 1763 give up their colonies. -
Los Angeles
1769 Spanish explorers took the field and permanent settlements arose 1781st After Mexico freed itself from Spain in 1822 control of the area but was captured entirely by the U.S. 1847th
After the city's port has become clear to use and the Panama Canal became operational in 1914, then expanded Los Angeles sharply. The industry took off properly and in conjunction with this, the city became the center for entertainment and film industries. -
Congress meetings
All colonies sent representatives to a congress (a decision-making meeting) in Philadelphia. Congress decided in 1776 to free the colonies in North America from Britain. -
war of Independence
The Americans began to fight against the British in the Revolutionary War in 1776 and finally in 1783 became the peace and they could form their own nation that they gave the name United States of America, their general during the war, George Washington and its first president, he was also.
He also gave the city of Washington's name. -
U.S. surface
In the 1800s quadrupled America's face and reached out to the Pacific. The population multiplied by a massive immigration from Europe, Asia, South and Central America. Factories grew up at a furious pace. United States was well into the 1900s the world's leading superpower, both economically and politically. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 and claimed 15 April 1865. Abraham Lincon was working as a lawyer and in politics and was the U.S. president in 1861-1865.
He led the North side during the American Civil War and was assassinated at a theater in the capital.
Lincon was America's first Republican president.
Lincon is known for emancipationsproklamationen, 1863, which freed slaves in the South. Eventually it became even slavery illegal. -
The Civil War
When Abraham Lincoln was selected as president was the answer to the war. Those 11 slave states in the South broke out. The war was fought primarily as a war of liberation from the Union, approved the continued slavery in the Union states that had slavery. The other 25 provinces supported the federal government. After four years of war, mostly in the southern states, slavery was banned in the nations. -
Mississippi
At the battle of Vicksburg in 1863, federal troops managed to take over Vicksburg and burning the state capital. Between 1890 and 1930 Meridian could call itself the largest city in Mississippi and became a leading center for manufacturing. Much of what is today the Meridian built during this time, including the Grand Opera House, which opened the 1890th 1900 the city had about 25 000 inhabitants. There is a river located in the U.S. and is very long called Mississippi. -
Results of the Civil War
Results out of the Civil War:
United States' territorial integrity preserved
Reconstruction (The losers were treated roughly during this time and many of the former leadership positions, both politically and militarily, lost both home and work.)
Slavery removed -
Continued Alexander Graham Bell
He left the February 14, 1876 filed a patent application on the phone. The phone quickly became a success, and as early as 1878 he could put up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Together with the invented Tainer chart also fotofon. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He was born March 3, 1847 and died 2 augusti 1922nd Bell was a professor in Boston in the organs of speech physiology. He was throughout his life interested in helping the hearing impaired and deaf people. Together with his father worked for talmetodens and by him advanced phonetic scripture development. To make the number even more apparent for the deaf and dumb, he constructed a small rubber membrane stretched over cardboard cylinder, which was brought to the invention of a microphone. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invented the first useful incandescent lamp 1880th He was born February 11, 1847 and died October 18, 1931 -
Industrialized Country
U.S. becomes the world's leading industrialized county in 1900
