1) Native Americans first migrated to North America around 11,500 years ago from Asia across the Bering Strait. They developed many diverse tribes and cultures across North and South America. 2) Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492 while sailing for Spain, mistakenly believing he had reached Asia. This led to European exploration and colonization of the Americas over subsequent decades and centuries. 3) The American Revolutionary War began as a conflict between the 13 British colonies and Britain and resulted in American independence being declared in 1776. Significant events in New York included the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War.

1. History of the United States of
America and New York State
By : Wasan F. Abu-Baker

2. Origins of the Native American
• Theories say that Native Americans migrated to
the American continent from Asia
• They descended from Siberia across a land
bridge (Bering Strait) around 11,500 years ago
• They passed into Alaska and later migrated
throughout North America, and then to Central
and South America
• This would make the first Americans Asians!!!

4. Civilization of native Americans
• Over the great land mass of the America , they numbered
approximately 75 million people by the time Columbus came,
25 million in north America
• They developed hundreds of different tribal cultures perhaps
two thousand different languages, this is due to different
environments of soil and climate
• They had a great agricultural revolution the same as in Asia,
Africa, Europe
• They developed a variety of vegetables and fruits, for
example: corn- peanuts-chocolate-tobacco-and rubber
• There are many tribes scattered between North and South
America
• Men and women had roles in society, farmers-hunters-
priests-herbest-healers-archtictures as we see in mexico the
civilzation of maya

5. Civilization of native Americans:
• The Native American community was collabritve,
their children taught the cultural hertiage of their
tribe through story telling and drawings.
• The Irondiquoits were the most powerful of the
northeastern tribes lived in Pennsylvania and new
York.
• After Europeans conquered America in their quest
for gold, the Indians numbers dwindled away due to
• 1- enslavement.
• 2- violence.
• 3- disease.

6. Tribes of the Native American

7. Columbus Voyage to America
in 1492
• Sailed from Spain after King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella provide him with sailors and three ships
named; Santa Maria-Nina-Pinta
• In early October 1492 Columbus landed in the
Bahamas
• He thought from his calculation he reaches the
Indies in Asia all cross the Atlantic Ocean but, he
discovered he is wrong because the first island he
landed on is Hispaniola
• The Arawak, the first native American tribe he met
were friendly to the sailors but he was looking for
gold as he promised queen and king of Spain.

8. European Exploration
of America

9. Exploration Competition
• England
• France
• Portugal
• Spain

10. Colonial Times
The first colony is an
English settlement
called Jamestown in
the colony of Virginia.

11. Columbian Exchange
• From America:
• Corn, potatoes, chocolate, beans, buffalo,
parrots, beaver, tobacco.
• From Europe:
• Orange, onion, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens,
Honeybee- disease like influenza-measles-small
pox

12. Celebrating thanksgiving

13. Timeline of U.S. History

14. slavery
• In 1619 a ship arrived to North America in the
colony of Virginia, Jamestown
▫ Twenty slaves arrived, which was the beginning of
slavery in North America
• The thirteen colonies needed slaves to enforce
economic system

17. Bacons rebellion
1676• An uprising in the Virginia Colony led by a 29-
year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon
• A thousand Virginians rose (including former
indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks
because they resented Virginia Governor William
Berkley’s friendly policies towards the Native
Americans
• When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of
Indian attacks on frontier settlements, others took
matters into their own hands, attacking Indians,
chasing Berkeley from Jamestown and torching
the capital

18. The Boston Tea Party• was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British
colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the
monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea
imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in
Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a
group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by
throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic
event of American history, and other political protests often refer to
it.
• - conclusion:
• The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American
Revolution

19. The American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
• This war began as a war between the Kingdom of
Great Britain and the thirteen British colonies in
North America
• Ended in a global war between several
European, such as conflicts in India and West
Africa between Great Britain and France

20. Revolutionary War Timeline

21. George Washington
• Created the 1st national army – Continental
Army

22. Winter of 1776-1777: Washington
quartered in the hills of N.J., British in
New York City
Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emmanuel Gottlieb
Leutze, 1851

23. British Strategy Failed▫ Howe invaded
Philadelphia
instead
▫ St. Leger repulsed
at Oriskaney
▫ Burgoyne defeated
at Saratoga (Oct.
1777) by Horatio
Gates. 5,700 British
troops captured

24. Treaty of Paris
1783
• Independence for the colonies
• All land east of the Mississippi, north to the Great
Lakes, and South to Florida goes to America
• U.S. has fishing rights off of Newfoundland
• U.S. promises to take no further action against
loyalists
• States to restore loyalist property
• To honor pre-war debts to Britain

25. The Declaration of Independence

26. Revolutionary war

27. Significant Events in New York
State
• The area of present-day New York City was inhabited by
various bands of Algonquian tribes
• The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776
• The first documented visit by a European to New York
Statewas in 1524 by Giovanni de Verrazzano
• In 1609 English explorer Henry Hudson re-discovered
the region
• In 1625 Dutch colonial Director-GeneralPeter Minuit
purchased the island of Manhattan from the Native
Americans
• In 1819 opening of the Erie Canal connected the Atlantic

28. Civil war

29. New York During the Civil War
• Anger at military conscription during the
American Civil War (1861–1865) led to the Draft
Riots of 1863, one of the worst incidents of civil
unrest in American history

30. summary of the History of USA and
New York State