This presentation provides a summary of American history from the discovery of America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus through major events in the 20th century. It covers the colonial period and founding of the original 13 colonies, the road to independence and American Revolution, formation of the US government, major wars including the Civil War, World Wars, and Cold War, civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., and cultural changes from the 1950s-1980s. The presentation was delivered by five students to their teacher Miss Mehwish.

1. TOPIC OF PRESENTATION:
HISTORY OF AMERICA
PRESENTED BY:
AREEBA RASHEED
AYESHA WAHID
LAIBA MUKHTAR
MUNEEZA SEHAR
SAHMEEM ARA
PRESENTED TO:
MISS MEHWISH

2. INTRODUCTION (DISCOVERY OF AMERICA):
 Americans get a day off work on October 12 to celebrate Columbus
Day.
 An annual holiday that commemorates the day on October 12, 1492
 A national holiday in the United States since 1937.
 He introduced the Americas to Western Europe during his four
voyages to the region between 1492 and 1502.
 Christopher Columbus made four expeditions to the New World,
which equipped the Spanish Catholic kings in the hope of opening a
shorter western route to trade with India.

3. COLONICAL PERIOD:
 The colonial history of the United States covers the history of
European colonization of America from the early 16th century.
 In the late 16th century, England, France, Castile, and the Dutch
Republic launched major colonization programs in America.
 Death rate was very high.
 No civil wars occurred in the thirteen colonies. The two chief
armed rebellions were short-lived failures in Virginia in
1676 and in New York in 1689–91.
 By 1760, France was defeated and its colonies were seized by
Britain.

4. COLONIAL PERIOD TIMELINE:
1565: St. Augustine is founded by the Spanish.
1607: Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in
North America, is established in Virginia.
1620: Pilgrims reach Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard
the Mayflower; "Mayflower Compact" adopted.
1626: Manhattan Island sold by Indians to New Amsterdam
colony.

5. 1638: Swedish settlers establish colony of New Sweden in
Delaware.
1681: William Penn receives charter for colony that
becomes Pennsylvania.
1692: Salem, Massachusetts, trials sentence 20 "witches" to
death.
1718: New Orleans founded by French.
1733: Georgia, last of original 13 colonies, founded by
James Oglethorpe.
COLONIAL PERIOD TIME LINE CONT.…….

6. ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE:
 Road to Independence is an Empire: Total War
Campaign.
 Three chapters and a United States Campaign
 The United States Campaign takes place after the
American Revolution.
 The United States Campaign takes place after the
American Revolution, in 1750, 25% of people in America
are slaves.

7. FORMATION OF A NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
“Every man and every body of men on earth, possess the right of self - government”

8. FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
(1783 TO 1787)
 In 1783 the treaty of Paris acknowledge the victory of American
republic over the British empire.
 In 1784 , virginals formally ceded the calms north of the Ohio
river
 The land ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the united states
congress of the confederation.
 In august 1786, revolutionary war veteran Danial shay’s led an
armed rebellion in Springfield.
 The constitution was written and signed in 1787 it was a charter
of government that came to be ratified by the states.

9. WORLD WAR 2 (1939-1945)
• In 1930 Proposed a New Deal to end the Great
Depression.
• US drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
• World war 2 over in 1945.

10. WOMEN DEVELOPMENT
 In 1966 Friedan's establish (NOW).
 Women right to vote.
 In US many state and federal laws pass for
women.

11. COLD WAR (1947-1990)
 US promote democracy through out the world.
 Rivalry between US and RUSSIA.
 Example
Korean war
Berlin wall

12. CONFLICT WITHIN THE US:
 United States was large country in 1850 full of contrast.
 In 1819, Missouri asked to become a state.
 Several Northern though slavery was wrong.
 Abraham Lincoln he agreed that south keep its slaves.

13. CIVIL WAR
 Civil war began in 1861.
 Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate
surrender in 1865.
 2.4 million Soldiers killed, millions more injured
and much of the South left in ruin.

14. WORLD WAR 1
 The Great War, began in 1914
 Credit to new military technologies and the horrors
of trench warfare.
 On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia.

15. THE GREAT DEPRESSION:
 In 1930s worldwide economic depression took place.
 It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread
depression of the 20th century.
 By 1933 the Great Depression reached its lowest
point.

16. CULTURAL CHANGE ( 1959- 1980)
AND MARTIN LUTHER KING
• Some Americans began to have easier lives. Families
moved from the cities where they could purchase
larger homes.
• Martin Luther king Jr was social activist.
• voting rights for African Americans.
• He played a great role in civil right movement.

17. Neil Armstrong
He was the frist person