HISTORY OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PRE-COLUMBIAN ERA• Crossing the Bering Land• Creation of several tribes• Colonization by the european

COLONIAL PERIOD• Spanish colonization • Dutch colonization • French colonization • British colonization

VIRGINIA COLONY• John Smith • Smith - april 26, 1607• May 13, 1607 colonists settled in Jamestown

MAYFLOWER• Ship used in 1620 • Two failed attempt• 102 people to Plymouth colony

THANKSGIVING • It started in 1621 • Celebrated in Plymouth colony • To thank for a good harvest.

NEW ANSTERDAM• Founded in 1625 • The largest Dutch settlement • New Ansterdam until 1664

SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (1756-1763)• British colonies in 1750’s • Showdown with France• The conflict lasted seven years

EUROPEAN FRONT (1757)In Rossbach (November 5 1757) In Leuthen, Russia (December 5 1757)In Zorndorf (1758)

AMERICAN FRONT• William Pitt - James Wolfe in American troops • Great Britain’s problems• War to Spain

INDIAN FRONT• French expansion in India • Great Britain against the French • Louis XVI - a peace with Great Britain

TREATY OF PARIS• finished in 1763• Choiseul Duke, Marquis of Grimaldi, Beford Duke

STAMP ACT (1765)• Enacted by the British• Big resistence among colonies• Opposition to the Stamp Act

BOSTON MASSACRE • March 5 1770• caused the American

Revolution• Fundation of America’s

Independence

BOSTON TEA PARTY (1773)• Started in 1773• Resistence movement• Key of the american revolution

AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1776)• Conspiration of 13 colonies• George Washington organized his troops• The independence was declared

SARATOGA CAMPAIGN (1777)• to control the Hudson river• 8000 men - John burgoyne• French in the

Independence of USA

Valley Forge• 1777 – 1778• Washington in Black Hills

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN• It took place between September 26 and October 19, 1781• It faced the continental insurgents and their French allies

CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION

• 1780’s• Slave trade was banned in• the first ten amendments of the

Constitution

THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE • George Washington • A strong goverment • Creation of Republican Party

WHISKEY REBELLION (1791-1794) • Tax protest • Western farmers against the taxes• New parties

WAR OF 1812• Anger at the British violation • The war was frustrating for both sides• Washington burning

BURNING OF WASHINGTON • Attack during the War of 1812• A British force occupied Washington City

MONROE DOCTRINE• "America for Americans“• John Quincy Adams• James Monroe presented the

doctrine

THE ALAMO• Crucial military conflict in the Texas Revolution• February 23 - March 6 1836

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR• Mexico and the United States –

1846-1848• Expansionist ambitions of the

United States of America

SECOND INDUSTRY REVOLUTION

• Between 1850-1870• Technology, scientific, social and economic• Chemstric, eletric, automotive industry

SLAVERY• Slavery was practiced in British North America• Internal slave-trading continued at a rapid pace• This marked the start of the Civil War

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)

• It determined the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy

• Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sunter• The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial

wars

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S MURDER• Abraham Lincoln - April 14,

1865• John Wilkes Booth• Persecution of the murderer

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD• Connection Sacramento in the

1860s• Golden Spike - on May 10,

1869• Pacific Railroad Act 1862

STATUE OF LIBERTY• Eduardo Laboulaye for USA• Fréderic August Bartholdi• It was laid in october 28 1886

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR• Spain and the United States in 1898• Cuban Independence• Spain was defeated

WORLD WAR I• United participated in the world war I• Liverpool-New York• The American - the Germans

THE GREAT DEPRESSION • global economic crisis in 1930s• Effects in almost all countries, rich and poor• Recovered gradually in the mid-1930s

US EXPANSIONISM

WORLD WAR II• Franklin Roosevelt - Europe in 1941• Pearl Harbor attacked by surprise

COLD WAR (1949-1989)• political, economic, social, military, informational

confrontation• the dissolution of the Soviet Union

SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS• September 11, 2001• Nineteen members of the jihadist network Al-Qaeda

THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT • Electoral College electors US to Barak Obama• Barak Obama the first black president in USA in 2009

PRINCIPAL HISTORIC CHARATER

KING GEORGE III

• 25 October 1760 - January 1, 1801

• Third British monarch of the House of Hanover

• Permanent mental illness

SAM ADAMS• One of the fathers of independence of the United States• Member of the House of Representatives• Articles opposing the British fiscal policy.

BEN FRANKLIN • Considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States• His passion for science subjects began in the mid-eighteenth

century

THOMAS JEFFERSON• April 13 1743 – July 4 1826 • Third president • One of the Founding Fathers of

the Nation• Declaration of Independence of

1776

THOMAS PAINE• January 29 1737 – July 8 1809• Promoter of liberalism and

democracy• One of the Founding Fathers of

the United States in 1776

GEORGE WASHINGTON• February 22 1732 – December

14 1799• President 1789 - 1797 • Considered like the fatherland • In 1787, the Constitution of the

United States of America

ALEXANDER HAMILTON• He participated in the War of

Independence• He created the Federal Party

of the United States

PATRICK HENRY• Prominent figure in the

American Revolution• "Give me liberty or give me

death”

ANDREW JACKSON • March 15 1767 – June 8 1845• the only President who was a

prisoner of war• He participated in the war of

1812• He was president of United

States of America

JOHN C. CALHOUN• War of 1812• State legilature in south

carolina• Corrupt pact 1825

JAMES MONROE• was the fifth President of

the United States• He was soldier, lawyer,

Continental Congress delegate, senator, governor, secretary of state and secretary of defense.

HERNY CLAY• 1777 - 1852• 1804-1809, the legislature of

Kentuck • In 1809, the Senate in

Washington• 1810, the House of

Representatives.

DANIEL WEBSTER• January 18 1782 – October 24

1852• Statesman during the American

antebellum• defense of New England

shipping interests. • He had a nationalist vision

JEFFERSON DAVIS

• June 3 1808 – December 6 1889

• On February 9, 1861 president of the newly formed Confederate States of America

ULYSSES S. GRANT• April 27 1822 – July 23 1885• It was the eighteenth President

of the United States• He achieved international fame

by leading the Union in the American Civil War

JAMES MEDISON• March 16 1751 – June 28 1835• He was the fourth president of

the United States.• Lawyer, politician and one of

the most influential of the "Founding Fathers of the United States“

ROBERT E. LEE• January 19 1807 – October 12

1870• led the armies of the

Confederate States of America during the Civil War

• West Point Army Academy in 1852

ABRAHAM LINLOLN • February 12 1809 – April 15

1865• Sixteenth president the

Republican Party• Opponent of slavery• Constitution in 1865

FREDERICK DOUGLASS• February 14 1818 – February 20

1895• The Sage of Anacostia or The

Lion of Anacostia• One of the most important

African-American writers

HARRIET TUBMAN• 1820 – Mach 10 1913• She was a fighter for the

freedom of African Americans during the American Civil War

• She made thirteen missions to rescue that freed about seventy slaves

• She helped John Brown after his seizure of arsenal at Harpers Ferry

IMPORTANT PLACES IN USA

GRACE CATHEDRAL• Found in 1849• Catholic headquaters• Neogothic – James Renwick

MANHATTAN• Financial capital• Soho• A infinity of museums

CENTRAL PARK• Pond and lakes• More than 200 species of birds• Delacorte Theater

LOS ANGELES• Hollywood• Transcontinental railroad• Academy award

Disneyland • 1955• Anaheim, California• Walt Disney

Smithsonian• Branches of museums• Washington D.C.• New York, Vriginia and Panama

GRAND CANYON• Theodore Rooselvelt• 1979 – UNESCO • Colarado River

RUSHMORE MOUNT• South Dakota• 1927 – October 31 1941• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Rooselvelt,

Abraham Lincoln

THE WHITE HOUSE• October 13 1792• The Burning of 1812• Rebuilding

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK• Sierra Nevada, California• 1984• Five major vegetation zones