Formation of United States History

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The history of the founding of the United States of America (USA / United States of America) is interesting to note because America is a superpower the world who control the economy, military, and technological world.

United States located in the middle of the North American continent, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Country 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 about 15,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska. Furthermore, Native Americans lived in the area for thousands of years. In 1492, ChristopherColumbus managed to reach America. British people then settled in Jamestown in 1607. The neighborhood is considered to be 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. The development of the British colonies ended not good for Native Americans, because many of those who died from the disease, and they lost their land.



United States is made up of 13 former British colonies after the American Revolution after the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776. This war started because the colonists feel unfairly treated by the British.

After the Revolution, the United States faces many problems, such as slavery. In the 1800s, the US gained a lot of area to start terindustralisasi. From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War raged between North and South. This war caused because of disputes over the rights of states, slavery, and the future of the United States. Several states in the South to leave the United States and founded the Confederation.

North won the war, and countries that had left the union returned to the United States. The country then through a period of reconstruction. In the late 1800s, many Europeans come to the United States and worked in a big factory. At the beginning of the 20th century, the US became a world power. Its economy is one of the largest in the world. The country is also involved in World War I and II.

After World War II, the United States engaged in the Cold War with the Union Soviet.Selama Cold War, the government spent a lot of funds for defense. The US was involved in the Korean War and Vietnam, and also sent Neil Armstrong and another American people into space. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended. Middle East becomes important for Americans, especially after the attacks of 11 September 2001. Today, the United States is a superpower, but still faces some problems.
PRE-COLUMBUS
The ancestors of Native Americans came from Asia. They crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska.



Bering land bridge, known as Beringia, a land bridge. On the line farthest from north to south, its length is approximately 1,600 km, connecting Alaska now with eastern Siberia at various times in the Pleistocene ice age. Beringia was not covered in ice because of snow fell very slightly due to the wind blowing from the south-west Pacific Ocean has lost most of its water vapor over the mountains of Alaska are completely covered with snow.

Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering Sea in the south, are all shallow seas (map, right). In the cycle of global cooling, as happened most recently in the ice age, there are quite a lot of sea water which is concentrated in the tops of the ice in the Arctic and Antarctica so that a uniform decrease in sea surface (eustatic) presented the shallow sea floor. Bridges other land around the world have formed and re-covered by the sea in the same way: around 14,000 years ago, the Australian mainland are connected either with Guinea and Tasmania, the British Isles is an extension of mainland Europe through the English Channel, and the basin dried Sea South China connecting Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland.
Pre-Columbian period is the period before the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492. At that time, the Native Americans living in the US. They have different cultures: the indigenous population in the United States east of hunting; indigenous people in the United States northwest catch fish; indigenous people in southwest grow corn and built a house called pueblo; and indigenous peoples in the Great Plains bison hunt.