American History

The First Americans

• The first people to occupy the area of the United States were the people of southeast asia.

European Exploration

• Some reasons for European exploration is new land to claim in the new world. Some of the explorers were Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci.

European Impact

• It created a war that was caused over land.

Colonization

Great Britain, Spain and France were some of the European countries that established major colonies. Explorers had been landing in America for some time before English settlers arrived in what is now Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607

French and Indian

• France, native Americans, Canada, and great Britain fought in the French and Indian war. it occurred during 1754 through 1763. great Britain won the war.

The Path To Independence

• The colonists wanted independence from great Britain because of the high taxes, the unfairness, and the laws.

Founding Fathers

• George Washington and Benjamin Franklin both played huge roles in the revolutionary war. George Washington was the general of the U.S. army. Benjamin Franklin was the person who dealed with the treaty and also signed the declaration of independence.

The American Revolution

• The one advantage great Britain has over the colonists was more ammo and the colonists had more soldiers. it occurred during the years 1775-1783. there was a famous battle of Lexington.

After Independence

• The new document is the U.S. constitution.

• The name of the three branches legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch.

Growth of America

• President Jefferson bought the Louisiana purchase. The native Americans sold us this land.

More Growth of America

• The united states had bought the Louisiana purchase. The California province ,the Texas annexation, and Oregon country. They bought these places and also got them from wars.

Civil War

• Some reasons the southerners had for wanting to split the united states was for the states to have more power.

After The Civil War

• Slavery ended after the civil war. but then racism blew up. The blacks and whites were segregated.

World War I

• What started WWI in was the war was the Germans u-boats blocking trades to England.

The Great Depression

• The stock market crashed in the 1920’s. the unemployment rate was 90%.

World War II

• The bombing of pearl harbor. The countries that fought were England France and USA. The atomic bomb ended the war with Japan quickly.

The Cold War

• Communism is a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political

party. Italy is a communist country. South Korea, north Korea and Vietnam.

Vietnam War

• Two reasons why it was hard was because it was hard to tell the allies apart from the enemies.

September 11th and the war in Afghanistan

• The September 11 attacks were a series of four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into a target in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed into a field near Shanks Ville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks

The War in Iraq• Saddam Hussein was the brutal

dictator who the united states removed as leader of Iraq. Saddam Hussein treated his national people terribly. He kept them poor, uneducated and unexposed to the global environment. He would annihilate anyone he felt like killing, even his own family members. He was oppressive and mean. Thousands of people lost their family members due to his murderous streak. Some people were killed and buried secretly. Many Iraqis have never known what happened to their family members

Presidency of Obama• Barack Obama is the president of the united states. He

became the president in united states in 2008. some of his political goals He has stated some of them to be: .

• Cleaner environment and implementing green technology and better energy policies..

• Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan • More equitable tax policy. • To unite the people to make America one. • Better the education for all. • Let people know change is coming to make the world a

better place. • Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham,

and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.