Launched the United States from the nucleus toward the Pacific at the expense of the indigenous Indians , bought Louisiana from France in 1803 and took over Florida from Spain in 1819 and annexed Texas from Mexico in 1848 and managed during the short period of time be transformed from a small country Mchernqh on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the State of the continent dominate the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , and began a union Konfedralaa before they turn into a federal , and perhaps train as well as simplicity of installation geographical location has helped to do and the success of this state widening , and thus its current borders has been formed and stabilized by less than 150 years. [1 ]
Pre-colonial
American Indians lived in the American continent since the year 8000 BC, and formed many cultures and peoples, farmers or fishermen by the place. But their long history, is not considered part of the history of the United States in the sense of the word, because the borders of the United States did not exist, the founders of what we call the United States came after that of Europe.
European colonial times
Event in 1492 pm two incidents big : the fall of Granada in the hands of the Kingdom of Spain , and the so - called discovery of America , when Columbus arrived in the Bahama Islands . As mentioned , it was not the first man to reach America , and the first reached by the Atlantic Ocean , has arrived Viking him to the beach at least Canada . But he was the first to set up links lasting between America and other continents, followed him thousands of Europeans, soldiers , traders and bishops and ordinary people , even change the shape of the whole continent , and defeated its majority ( and helped diseases in it, it was not for the American population no immunity against diseases Europe many . )Settlers set up new settlements in the eastern part of North America , including small cities such as New York , Boston and Philadelphia . Launched on New York in the beginning the name New Amsterdam relative to the first inhabitants who were of Dutch origin . Many immigrants come to the United States in the hope of beginning a new life in the New World. Population has grown and expanded their settlement areas . And small towns evolved to become a great and prosperous cities .
American Revolution
For many years considered the American population British citizens and were forced to pay taxes to it . In 1773 a rebellion of the American population for the first time . The population of the city of Boston refused to pay taxes to Britain against Estrada tea . In order to express their protest Americans threw tea boxes that arrived on board the ship to the waters of the harbor . This is called the name of the tea party event in Boston. The Boston Tea Party as a first stage in the struggle of the settlers in America for independence. Britain sent its army to suppress the rebellion , فأشعل defuse the war of independence of the United States .
Abraham Lincoln
The American Revolution factors :
Taxes: where it formed taxes Alfrudh colonies direct cause of ignition of the American Revolution , as it stuck to the government English the right to impose taxes on the colonies in order to increase the income of the treasury, and most important of these taxes : Tax sugar, stamp tax ( stamp ), because the Americans they see that they are not obliged to pay any tax did not participate in the approval by the elected councils .
Seven Years' War (1756-1763 ) : The Americans looked forward to getting the rights and freedoms enjoyed
In 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act and the imposition of taxes that the colonies needed to purchase stamps to be a tax on publications. He has one of the painters in the colonies draw a skull and crossbones symbol of death, to the right , as an expression of protest against the law . These changes sparked angry reactions among the colonists who strongly opposed it and shouted the slogan " taxation without representation is tyranny " and succeeded to protest the British Parliament abolished the Stamp Act in 1766 .
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