The USA - History Lejnarová Michaela, C4B
The beginning the first inhabitants -> people migrating from Asia = Native Americans 50,000 – 11,000 years ago
A colonial history of the United States the first discovery A.D. -> Vikings > Leif Erickson (!didn‘t settle) Ch. Columbus -> discovered Caribbean (instead of discovering a western way to India): October 1492 the first colony was established in 1584 in Virginia the first town = Jamestown (1607)
18 th century the Boston Tea Party in 1773 – to protest against the new tax on tea the Declaration of Independence -> Thomas Jefferson G. Washington -> the 1 st President of the United States (1789) Washington DC
19 th century The California Gold Rush – 1848 => roads, churches, schools and other towns were built all around California 1812 – war with Britain the Civil War (1861 – 1865): the industrial North X the agrarian South Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just as the war ended slavery = otroctví abolished = zrušeno
20 th century one of the most dominant powers participated in both world wars > A-bombs on Japan > began The Cold War now The USA is the federal republic consisting of 50 states
Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919 an American politician 26 th President of the United States a leader of the Republican Party expanded the influence of the executive office* the Nobel Peace Prize Mount Rushmore -> *moc výkonná
SOURCES: 1. online.cz/aitom/upload/maturita/temata/10_histo ry_of_usa.pdf, d_States, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Unite d_States 3. /biography/1, http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays /biography/1