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    1. The document summarizes key events in early American history, including European exploration and colonization by Spain, England, and France in the 15th-17th centuries. 2. It then discusses the American Revolutionary War and founding of the United States, including the writing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. 3. Finally, it provides an overview of the causes of the American Civil War in the 19th century, including economic and social differences between the Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery.

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    1. The document summarizes key events in early American history, including European exploration and colonization by Spain, England, and France in the 15th-17th centuries. 2. It then discusses the American Revolutionary War and founding of the United States, including the writing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. 3. Finally, it provides an overview of the causes of the American Civil War in the 19th century, including economic and social differences between the Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery.

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    Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Magellan

    under the Spanish flag in 1492


    the name America comes proved that the
    wanted to reach Asia but finally
    from him who visited the world is round
    landed at the present-day
    new land and wrote about
    Bahamas
    his experiences
    thought he arrived in India -->
    he called the natives Indians
    1. Spanish 2. English 3. Northern English
    first European wanted Southern settlements
    immigrant ethnic
    group
    The London company colonies/Early
    established Jamestown -->
    they tried to enslave
    the natives and
    the first English settlement New England
    aim: gain economic dominance in
    the first African slaves were
    converted them to
    Christianity imported Europe
    Maryland was established for Puritans who were not satisfied
    Catholics, England's with Church of England, decided
    minority to establish new communities -->
    Virginia, Georgia travel
    the first Northern English colony:
    Pilgrims in 1620
    were flourishing through
    agriculture and forestry
    1680 German French Huguenots 1776

    Scot-Irish The Irish Jews


    Colonial society Native Americans
    there used several hundred languages
    On the East: hunting, fishing, farming, gathering,
    black slaves in Colonial North America
    maize
    in the South: tobacco, rice, sugar
    On the Prairies: bison region, communal buffalo
    Women went to the New World for a
    hunt
    better life -> on plantations they
    On the South-Wesr: irrigated agriculture
    supervised the work of slaves or took
    population growth because of increased food suply
    over the whole management of
    tribes: Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Hopi, Navajo, Apache
    plantations
    Alaska: inuit groups, sea hunters
    Hawaii: gathered food from tropical forests, fishing
    Reasons: The war:
    Great Britain had an enormous debt the Americans wanted to defeat the British and
    following the French and Indian War --> proclaimed their independence on 4th July 1776 -->
    British solution: tax the American colonies Members of the Continental Congress (Benjamin
    --> protests Franklin, Thomas Jefferson) voted to accept the
    Boston tea Party: Bostonians dressed as Declaration --> war
    Indians boarded British ships and threw America formed the Continental army
    tea into the Boston Harbour French warships helped the Continental army
    Great Britain formally recognized the independence of
    the US in the Treaty of Paris
    Canada remained British territory
    Constitution of the United States

    authors/Founding Fathers of the US: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, ...


    political parties: Democrats (liberal), Republicans (conservative)
    president must be a natural-born citizen, at least 35 years old
    all states received equal representation in the Senate
    basic principles:
    1. federalism (sovereign power)
    2. separation of powers (legislative, executive, judicial)
    3. checks and balances (president can veto federal legislation)

    Bill of Rights - 1791


    it guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual (freedom of speech, press, religion)
    Reasons: War:
    Differences between North and South:
    president: Abraham Lincoln
    North: manufacturing and industry was well
    7 southern states seceeded from the US --> Secession -->
    established, modern and had a liberal way of
    they formed a new nation: Confederate States of America
    thinking --> it imagined an equal society and human
    Northern victory in the war ended the institution of
    rigths
    slavery
    South: economy was based on farming that
    the actual equality between whites and blacks did not exist
    depended on the labor of black slaves, traditional way
    South States became part of the Union but still against
    of thinking --> social hierarchy is important, they
    blacks --> They founded the Klu-Klux-Klan (still
    feared that the existence of slavery in America was in
    working)
    danger - slave states

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