This is short presentation about history of the United States of America.

1. History of the United
States
Ivana Štípalová IV.E

2. Discovery of America
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The Vikings (1000)
Christopher Columbus (1492)
Amerigo Vespucci
Spanish, Dutch, French and British
colonization

3. Spanish, Dutch, French and British
colonization
• The Europeans conquired America (wealth,
new possibilities)
• Arrival of new civilization had enormous
consequences ( environment, language,
culture, religion, diseases)
• Diversity of people
• Silver, gold, potatoes, cacao, corn, tobacco

4. The columbian exchange

5. Slavery
• Slaves became an important part of
american economy
• in the 17th to 19th centuries
• 25% of people in America are slaves

6. Triangular trade

7. Thirteen colonies
• New England colonies ( Connecticut, New Hampshire)
• Middle colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey)
• Southern colonies (Maryland, Virginia, Georgia)

8. The Pilgrims
• The Pilgrims – religion persecution, 1620
(Mayflower)
• Squanto was native American who helped
Pilgrims to survive the first winter in
America, he was a member of Patuxet
tribe.
• Thanksgiving (The 4th Thursday in
November 1621 )

9. Other historic facts
• The French and Indian war (1754-1763) –
beginning of American Independence
• The war was expensive – increase of prices
( coffee, sugar, indigo... ) – American
resistance (1765)
• The tea act – Boston tea party (1773)
• 1st Continental Congress (1774)
• The American revolution (1776-1783)
• Declaration of Independence (1776) –
Jefferson
• The Treaty of Paris (1783) - independence
and freedom of the 13 colonies, America is
free from England
• George Washington became the first

12. • Civil War (1861-1865) - Many
people in the north wanted to set
Negroes free and abolish the
slavery – abolitionists
• Southern states defended the
slavery and leave the Union. They
formed the Confederacy, elected
their president Jefferson Davis and
started a war.
• Lincoln abolished the slavery in
1863
• World War I – America lost over
118.000 soldiers
• World War II

15. Thank you for your attention