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 1750s
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 Britains 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 Americas
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
1780s
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 LINCOLNS
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
Frderic 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 AlQaeda

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 mideighteenth 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 AfricanAmerican 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