short description of complete history of America

2. GROUP MEMBERS
ZAHRA HANIF
AYESHA AFTAB MALIK

3. HISTORY
OF USA

4. Prehistory
1st settlement not known

5. Prehistory….
Pre-Columbian era
People migrated from Eurasia
Migration begun 30,000 years ago
Early migrant-paleoamericans

6. By 1400, hundreds
of Native-American
tribes live
throughout North
America.

7. Discovery
Columbus discovers America
in1492.

8. Colonial period

9. Continued…
• first settlements were
established in 1607
•European brought animals
and in turn took vegetables to
their land
•Many died due to disease

10. Italian colonization
• Italian explorer Giovanni
da Verrazano explores New
York Harbor

11. Continued…
Spanish colonization:
In 1565, the Spanish establish Saint Augustine, Florida.

12. Continued..
Dutch and French colonization
• The Dutch colony was taken over by Britain in
1664
• New France was the area colonized by
France from 1534 to 1763

13. English Colonization
• The English establish Jamestown, Virginia, in
1607 and Plymouth Colony, in Massachusetts,
in 1620.

14. 18TH CENTURY

16. Political integration
The 13 colonies rebel
against the British in 1775

17. American revolution
• The Declaration of Independence is signed on
July 4 in 1776, and the United States of America
is formed.

18. Early years of the republic

19. Revolutionary War
• Revolutionary war lasts for 9 years
• America was free from England

20. U.S.A
Constitution
The U.S. Constitution
is written in 1787.

21. First President
In 1789,George
Washington becomes
the first President.

22. Slavery
Slavery became an
important part of
American economy

24. 19TH CENTURY

25. War of 1812
•Britishers voilate american rules
in order to hurt france.
•India supported British
•Congress declared war
•British was defeated and peace
treaty was signed

26. • In the 1850’s 11 states decide to leave the
country, or secede.

27. Divisions between North and
South
• Southern whites----expansion of slaves
• Northerners ---anti-slavery
• Origin of civil war

28. Civil war
• The Civil War ends in 1865, with
over700,000 dead, but with the Union
victory, the country remains whole

29. Women suffrage
• The women's suffrage
movement began with
the 1848 organized
by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton

30. Women suffrage cont.…
Success of movement
By the end of the 19th
century a few western states
had granted women
• voting rights
• gaining rights :as property and
child custody.

31. 20TH CENTURY
In history of USA

32. Imperialism
• The United States emerged as a world economic and military
power after 1890
• The main episode was the Spanish–American War Cuba.

33. World War 1
• World War I raged in Europe from 1914
– President Woodrow Wilson took full control of
foreign policy declaring neutrality but warning
Germany that resumption of unrestricted submarine
warfare against American ships supplying goods to
Allied nations would mean war

35. WW1…
• the U.S. declared war in April 1917
– American soldiers arrived at the rate of 10,000 a
day, while Germany was unable to replace its losses.
• Allied victory in November 1918

36. Great depression
• It started with the Wall Street Crash in
1929.
It was global. It affected everyone, not just
the US.

37. Great depression
• steep declines in
industrial output and
rising levels of
unemployment
• By 1933 some 13 to
15 million Americans
were unemployed and
nearly half of the
country's banks had
failed

38. End of great
depression
• measures by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
helped lessen the worst
effects of the Great
Depression in the 1930s

39. Japan bombs the U.S. fleet at Pearl
Harbor, in Hawaii in 1940

40. World War 2• the worst war in
American
history.
• the United States
became a world
power.
 US was the only
nation with the
atom bomb (until
1949),

42. Civil rights
• Starting in the late 1950s,
• leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
• For years African Americans would struggle
with violence against them

43. • Martin Luther
King, Jr., who
had won
the Nobel
Peace Prize

44. Neil Arm Strong
1959

45. 21ST CENTURY

46. 9/11
• Al qaeda hijackers
commandeered four
airliners and crashed into
both twin towers of
the World Trade
Center and into the
Pentagon.
• killing nearly 3,000
people, mostly civilians

47. war on terror
• In response on September 20,
President George W. Bush announced a "War
on Terror“

48. Attack on Afghanistan
• On October 7, 2001, the
United States and NATO
then invaded Afghanistan

50. Hurricane Katrina
• August 2005
• Hits coast Gulf

51. Invasion to Iraq
• in 2003, from
March 19 to May
1, the United States
launched an
invasion of Iraq,
Iraqi
dictator Saddam
Hussein

52. President Obama
• In 2008 Barack Obama
became the first African-
American President of the
United States. and again in
2012

53. Iraq operation
• he officially ended
combat operations in Iraq
on August 31, 2010

55. Osama Bin Laden
• In May 2011 the
founder and leader of
Al Qaeda, Osama bin
Laden, was killed in
Pakistan While Al
Qaeda was near
collapse in
Afghanistan

56. Americans vote
• Americans vote in a presidential election.