United States located in the middle of the North American continent, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west coast, including the islands of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, the state of Alaska in the northern tip of the American continent, and some other territories.
The first settlers what is now the United States come from Asia around 15,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering land bridge to Alaska. [1] Furthermore, the Native Americans living in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists. In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached America. British people then settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The neighborhood was considered as the first settlement in the United States. Furthermore, the United States continues to be visited by the British people. The French, Spanish, and Dutch also settled in most of the United States. [2] In the 1770s, the thirteen British colonies covering two and a half million inhabitants. These colonies grow and thrive, and develop its own political and legal system. Nevertheless, the development of the British colonies did not end well for the Native Americans, because many of those who died from the disease, and they lost their country.
British Parliament to enforce its authority over these colonies by establishing new taxes, which are considered unconstitutional by the Americans because they are not represented in Parliament. [3] The conflict that heats culminate in a full war which started in April 1775. After the American Revolution, koloni- colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 4, 1776 and established the United States.
With military and financial support from the French large-scale as well as the leadership of General George Washington, the Patriot forces won the Revolutionary War and peace was agreed in 1783. During and after the war, 13 countries are united under a federal government that is determined by the Articles of Confederation. When the document is no longer working properly, the new Constitution adopted in 1789 and until this becomes the basis for the United States federal government, and later on also includes the Human Rights Act. With Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton as the chief financial adviser, a strong national government was formed. In the First Party System, two national political parties evolved to support or reject the policy of Hamilton. When Thomas Jefferson became president, he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the area of the United States. The second and final war against Britain took place in 1812. The main result of the war was the end of European support for attacks against settlers Indian tribes west.
Under the support of democracy and democratic Jefferson Jackson, United States extends through the purchase of Louisiana to as far as California and Oregon, as well as the search for cheap land to farmers and slave owners Yeoman promoting democracy and expansion, which must be paid to violence and hatred against European culture. This expansion, under Manifest Destiny, is a rejection of the suggestion Whig Party who want to improve and modernize the economy and society rather than expand. Slavery was abolished in all the states in the North (north of the Mason-Dixon Line that separates Pennsylvania and Maryland) in 1804, yet persists in countries in the South because of the high demand for cotton from Europe.
After 1820, a series of compromises delay showdown on the issue of slavery. In the mid 1850s, the power of the Republic seize political control of the North and promised to stop the expansion of slavery, which indicates the abolition of slavery. The presidential election in 1860 was won by Abraham Lincoln of the Republican party to make eleven slave states secede and establish the Confederation in 1861. After four years of bloodshed, the Union, under President Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant as commander jendera South beat with Robert E. Lee as the most famous generals. Finally slavery was abolished and the South became poor. At Rekontsruksi era (1863-77), the United States put an end to slavery and expand legal rights and voting rights for former slaves (African Americans who had been slaves). The national government is becoming more powerful, and because the Fourteenth Amendment, the government now has a real duty to protect the rights of individuals. Reconstruction ended in 1877 and since the 1890s until the 1960s the system of Jim Crow (segregation) makes blacks are in the inferiority of the political, social, and economic. South entire experience poverty until the second half of the 20th century, when the North and West grow and prosper rapidly.
United States became the superior strength of the industry in the early 20th century due to the explosion in the number of entrepreneurs in the North and the arrival of millions of immigrant workers and peasants of Europe. National rail network completed, and mining and large-scale factory area mengindustrialisasi Northeast and Midwest. Middle-class discontent over corruption, inefficiency, and traditional political trigger the Progressive movement since the 1890s and 1920s, which encourage reform and allow the voting rights of women and the prohibition of alcohol (repealed in 1933). Although initially neutral in World War I, the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, and funded the Allies to victory a year later.
After a decade of prosperity in the 1920s, the collapse of Wall Street in 1929 menandani start of the Great Depression a worldwide during the decade. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt became president and implement a new program, the New Deal, for relief, recovery and reform, which defines the modern American liberalism. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II alongside the Allies and helped defeat Nazi Germany in Europe and the defeat of Japan in the Far East.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as a superpower competing and start the Cold War. Both countries are indirectly fighting each other in the arms race and the space race. US foreign policy during the Cold War focused on containment of Communism, and the country is participating in the wars in Korea and Vietnam to achieve this goal. Liberalism gained many victories during the New Deal and also in the mid-1960s, particularly in the success of the civil rights movement, but conservatism re-developed in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. Cold War ended after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, making the United States as the sole superpower. Entering the 21st century, international conflicts centered around the Middle East and increased sharply following the 11 September attacks and the War on Terror was declared after. United States is experiencing the worst economic recession since World War II in the late 2000s, followed by a slowdown in economic growth during the 2010s.
The first settlers what is now the United States come from Asia around 15,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering land bridge to Alaska. [1] Furthermore, the Native Americans living in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists. In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached America. British people then settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The neighborhood was considered as the first settlement in the United States. Furthermore, the United States continues to be visited by the British people. The French, Spanish, and Dutch also settled in most of the United States. [2] In the 1770s, the thirteen British colonies covering two and a half million inhabitants. These colonies grow and thrive, and develop its own political and legal system. Nevertheless, the development of the British colonies did not end well for the Native Americans, because many of those who died from the disease, and they lost their country.
British Parliament to enforce its authority over these colonies by establishing new taxes, which are considered unconstitutional by the Americans because they are not represented in Parliament. [3] The conflict that heats culminate in a full war which started in April 1775. After the American Revolution, koloni- colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 4, 1776 and established the United States.
With military and financial support from the French large-scale as well as the leadership of General George Washington, the Patriot forces won the Revolutionary War and peace was agreed in 1783. During and after the war, 13 countries are united under a federal government that is determined by the Articles of Confederation. When the document is no longer working properly, the new Constitution adopted in 1789 and until this becomes the basis for the United States federal government, and later on also includes the Human Rights Act. With Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton as the chief financial adviser, a strong national government was formed. In the First Party System, two national political parties evolved to support or reject the policy of Hamilton. When Thomas Jefferson became president, he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the area of the United States. The second and final war against Britain took place in 1812. The main result of the war was the end of European support for attacks against settlers Indian tribes west.
Under the support of democracy and democratic Jefferson Jackson, United States extends through the purchase of Louisiana to as far as California and Oregon, as well as the search for cheap land to farmers and slave owners Yeoman promoting democracy and expansion, which must be paid to violence and hatred against European culture. This expansion, under Manifest Destiny, is a rejection of the suggestion Whig Party who want to improve and modernize the economy and society rather than expand. Slavery was abolished in all the states in the North (north of the Mason-Dixon Line that separates Pennsylvania and Maryland) in 1804, yet persists in countries in the South because of the high demand for cotton from Europe.
After 1820, a series of compromises delay showdown on the issue of slavery. In the mid 1850s, the power of the Republic seize political control of the North and promised to stop the expansion of slavery, which indicates the abolition of slavery. The presidential election in 1860 was won by Abraham Lincoln of the Republican party to make eleven slave states secede and establish the Confederation in 1861. After four years of bloodshed, the Union, under President Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant as commander jendera South beat with Robert E. Lee as the most famous generals. Finally slavery was abolished and the South became poor. At Rekontsruksi era (1863-77), the United States put an end to slavery and expand legal rights and voting rights for former slaves (African Americans who had been slaves). The national government is becoming more powerful, and because the Fourteenth Amendment, the government now has a real duty to protect the rights of individuals. Reconstruction ended in 1877 and since the 1890s until the 1960s the system of Jim Crow (segregation) makes blacks are in the inferiority of the political, social, and economic. South entire experience poverty until the second half of the 20th century, when the North and West grow and prosper rapidly.
United States became the superior strength of the industry in the early 20th century due to the explosion in the number of entrepreneurs in the North and the arrival of millions of immigrant workers and peasants of Europe. National rail network completed, and mining and large-scale factory area mengindustrialisasi Northeast and Midwest. Middle-class discontent over corruption, inefficiency, and traditional political trigger the Progressive movement since the 1890s and 1920s, which encourage reform and allow the voting rights of women and the prohibition of alcohol (repealed in 1933). Although initially neutral in World War I, the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, and funded the Allies to victory a year later.
After a decade of prosperity in the 1920s, the collapse of Wall Street in 1929 menandani start of the Great Depression a worldwide during the decade. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt became president and implement a new program, the New Deal, for relief, recovery and reform, which defines the modern American liberalism. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II alongside the Allies and helped defeat Nazi Germany in Europe and the defeat of Japan in the Far East.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as a superpower competing and start the Cold War. Both countries are indirectly fighting each other in the arms race and the space race. US foreign policy during the Cold War focused on containment of Communism, and the country is participating in the wars in Korea and Vietnam to achieve this goal. Liberalism gained many victories during the New Deal and also in the mid-1960s, particularly in the success of the civil rights movement, but conservatism re-developed in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. Cold War ended after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, making the United States as the sole superpower. Entering the 21st century, international conflicts centered around the Middle East and increased sharply following the 11 September attacks and the War on Terror was declared after. United States is experiencing the worst economic recession since World War II in the late 2000s, followed by a slowdown in economic growth during the 2010s.
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