HISTORY OF AMERICA

PART 1
america is the super power of world now and his economy is also stable some facts about history of america

The history of americais vast and complex, but can be broken down into moments and time periods that divided, unified, and changed the United States into the country it is today:

1700-1799

  • american revolution (sometimes referred to as the American War of Independence or the Revolutionary War) was a conflict which lasted from 1775-1783 and allowed the original thirteen colonies to remain independent from Great Britain.
  • Beginning in Great Britain in the late 1790s, the industrial revolution eventually made its way to the United States and changed the focus of our economy and the way we manufacture products.

1800-1899

  • In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson agreed to thlousia successfully adding 530,000,000 acres of land to the United States. The area was purchased from France for $15 million. The following year, President Jefferson assigned Meriwether Lewis (who asked for help from William Clark) to head west and  purchased land . It took about a year and a half for the duo to reach the west coast.
    civil war divided the United States in two – the Northern States versus the Southern States. This four year battle (1861-1865) kept the United States together as one whole nation and ended slavery.

1900-1999

  • On December 17, 1903 brothers  became the first people to maintain a controlled flight in a powered, heavier-than-air machine. The Wright Flyer only flew for 12 seconds for a distance of 120 feet, but their technology would change the modern world forever.
  • On April 6, 1917 the United States entered world war 1 by declaring war on Germany.
  • After nearly 100 years of protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins, women of the United States were officially granted the right vote after the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920.
  • The worst economic crisis to happen in the United States occurred when the stock market crashed in October 1929 resulting in the great descriptiopn  
  • On June 1, 1937, amelia erphat set out to become to first woman to fly around the world (a 29,000-mile trip). Earhart (and her navigator Fred Noonan) only made it to Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean before mysteriously disappearing. The whereabouts of Earhart, Noonan, and the plane are still unknown.
  • world war 2 officially begins in September 1939 after Germany invades Poland. The United States didn’t enter the war until after the Japanese attack on pearl; habour on December 7, 1941.
  • On August 6 and August 9 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of hiroshima effectively ending World War II.  
  • After World War II, an agreement was reached to divide Korea into two parts: a northern half to be controlled by the Soviet Union and a southern half to be controlled by the United States. The division was originally meant as a temporary solution, but the Soviet Union managed to block elections that were held to elect someone to unify to country. Instead, the Soviet Union sent North Korean troops across the 38th parallel leading to the three-year long (1950-1953) korean war.. 
  • From 1954-1968, the africa american peoples took place, especially in the Southern states. Fighting to put an end to racial segregation and discrimination, the movement resulted in the 1964 civil rights the voting right acts and the 1968 fair acts
  • The wetnam war  was a nearly 20 year battle (November 1, 1955 - April 30 1975) between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam won the war and Vietnam became one unified country.
  • The apollo 11 mission (July 16 – 24 1969) allowed United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin to become the first humans to step on the moon’s surface.

2000-Present

  • The terrorist attacks on 11 sep 2001 changed the United States forever. Less than a month later (October 7, 2001) the United States began the AFGHAN WAR which is still happening today.
  • On March 20, 2003, the United States iraq..The war lasted for more than eight years before it was officially declared over on December 18, 2011. One of the major events to occur during this war was the capture sadam.
  • obama is elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008, making him the first African-American to hold that position. His inauguration was held on January 20, 2009. 
  • neptune spear is carried out on May 2, 2011 resulting in the death of long-time al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
  • On November 6, 2012 obama re-elected President after defeating Mitt Romney
    the industrilization of america is very stable..In 1790, SAMUEL SLATER built the first factory in America, based on the secrets of textile manufacturing he brought from England. He built a cotton-spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, soon run by water-power. Over the next decade textiles was the dominant industry in the country, with hundreds of companies created.
    n the iron industry, Pennsylvania's furnaces and rolling mills were fast supplanting small local forges. In 1804, OLIVER EVAN of Philadelphia developed a high-pressure steam engine that was adaptable to a great variety of industrial purposes. Within a few years it powered ships, sawmills, flour mills, printing presses as well as textile factories. In 1798, Eli Whitney, who had invented the cotton gin in 1792, contributed one of the most important elements of the industrial age. He came up with the idea of making guns using interchangeable parts. The idea of interchangeable parts had been raised in Europe, but it took an American to successfully commercialize the concept.
    The concept was seized by industry after industry. Canal and railway construction played an important role in transporting people and cargo west, increasing the size of the US marketplace. With the new INFRASTRUCTUREeven remote parts of the country gained the ability to communicate and establish trade relationships with the centers of commerce in the East.
    The new industrialization was very expensive. Out of the need for money grew the corporation. Chartered under state laws, corporations could accumulate capital from as many investors as were interested in them, each of them enjoying some stock or stake in the corporation's success. There was no limit to how much investors could earn, yet each with "LIMITED LIABILITY" whereby they were financially responsible for the corporation's debts only to the extent of their investment.
    Yet, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible without one further ingredient — people. Canals and railways needed thousands of people to build them. Business schemes required people to execute them. The number of projects and businesses under development was enormous. The demand for labor was satisfied, in part, by millions of IMMIGRANTS from Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere. As is often the case when there is a mass immigration, there was a great deal of resistance. Old and new political parties took strong positions on the rights of immigrants. Ultimately these positions hardened, leading to major political changes in America.

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