1. The USA - History Lejnarová Michaela, C4B

2. The beginning the first inhabitants -> people migrating from Asia = Native Americans 50,000 – 11,000 years ago

3. A colonial history of the United States the first discovery-10 000 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 20 th century one of the most dominant powers participated in both world wars 1945 -> A-bombs on Japan 1947 -> began The Cold War now The USA is the federal republic consisting of 50 states

8. 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

10. SOURCES: 1.http://www.bridge- online.cz/aitom/upload/maturita/temata/10_histo ry_of_usa.pdf, 28. 2. 2014 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Unite d_States, 28. 2. 2014http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Unite d_States 3.http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays /biography/1, 28. 2. 2014http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays /biography/1