The birth of the U.S.A .

1. By Juan Marzo Roca The birth of the U.S.A.

2. The date of the start of the history of the United States is a subject of constant debate among historians. Older textbooks set its beginning with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Others see it starting around 1600 and they emphasize the concept of ‘American frontier’ Indigenous people lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. arrival of Christopher Columbus

3. In the 1760s, the British government imposed a series of new taxes on its American colonies, while rejecting the American argument that any new taxes had to be approved by the people. Tax resistanceled to punitive laws by the Parliament, which aimed to end self-government in Massachusetts. American Patriots (as they called themselves) adhered to a political ideology called republicanism that emphasized civic duty. republicanism

4. After armed conflict began in Massachusetts, Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. Those Patriot governments in the colonies unanimously empowered their delegates to Congress to declare independence. In 1776, Congress declared that there was a new, independent nation: the United States of America, which was not just a collection of disparate colonies. With large-scale military and financial support from France and military leadership by General George Washington, the American Patriots rebelled against British rule and succeeded in the Revolutionary War. Revolutionary War

5. When Thomas Jefferson became president, he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the United States. A second and final war with Britain was fought in 1812. •  Federal territory expanded all the way to the Pacific. The U.S. always was large in terms of area, but its population was small, only 4 million in 1790. Population growth was rapid, reaching 7.2 million in 1810, 32 million in 1860, 76 million in 1900, 132 million in 1940, and 321 million in 2015. Economic growth was even faster. • The 1860 presidential election of Republican Abraham Lincoln was on a platform of ending the expansion of slavery and putting it on a path to extinction. Seven cotton-based deep South slave states seceded and later founded the Confederacy months before Lincoln's inauguration.  Expansion of the us

6. The United States became the world's leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century due to an outburst of entrepreneurship in the Northeast and Midwest and the arrival of millions of immigrant workers and farmers from Europe.  The national railroad network was completed with the work of Chinese immigrants and large-scale mining and factories industrialized the Northeast and Midwest.  Industrial power

7. The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as rival superpowers after World War II. During the Cold War, the US and the USSR confronted each other indirectly in the Arms Race, the Space Race and propaganda campaigns. The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union officially dissolved in 1991, leaving the United States as the world's only superpower.  As the 21st century began, international conflict centered around the Middle East following the September 11 attacks by Al-Qaeda on the United States in 2001. Question for debate: is the USA unbeatable today; is it the world’s only superpower? Is it all-powerful? The United States as the world's only superpower

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