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At the beggining american literature was writen by british settlers, who were popular in the U.S. until 1776, when they declared the independence, new writing adressed the country´s future.
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On september of 1620, a crew of 120 pilgrim passenger left england, because they wanted to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, that they thought it was corrupted.
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They were tired and angry with bretain because of the taxation without representation and monopoly of the east Indian Company.
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In this ideological and political revolution, the 13 american colonies defeted de british goverment, gaining freedom and independence, stablishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.
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This was a way of thinking that values the indivual over the group, and also the wildness of nature over human-made order. Some of its most famous writers are Edgar Allan Poe and James Russell Lowell
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In this period, many new inmigrants arrived to the U.S. The biggest groups who arrived were from 1840 to 1860, many came from Europe (Ireland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic).
Also, many jews arrived to the U.S from 1880 to 1925. -
The population went from 15,000 to 250000. Some of the new arrivals traveled by sea to the port of San Francisco. In 1862, a railroad was biult from the mississipi towards the pacific.
Years later, a law was established, and this offered free farms to heads of each family, who claimed one. -
The war was fought because eleven Southern states wanted to leave the United States of America. They formed the Confederate States of America, also called "the Confederacy." The U.S. government andall the other statesl were called The Union.
The main cause of the war was slavery, this was common in the Southern states, in all 11 that joined the Confederacy. It was illegal in most of the Northern states. The union ended up winning -
Lincoln (president) was murdered. After that, his Vice President becomes the president. Andrew begin to create plans to reunite the south with the rest of the nation and introduced the 14th amenamente in the civil rights act (rights to the black people), the south didn’t like this and started to be more racist, by taking political actions.
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Native American forces called Lakota,Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes faced the U.S goberment. This ended in the national army´s defeat.
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The industries of the United States were earning the country more than its farmlands. Later, more than a third of the whole world 's industrial production was pouring from the mines and factories of the United States.
The production of coal and iron grew especially fast. Railroads were very important in this growth of manufacturing. . -
By 1910, the 14.5 percent of americans hadn´t born in the country. Many other citizens were angry because they thought they were taking away jobs and opportunities from other americans, real americans.
Also, Theodore Roosevelt introduced reformrs to improve worker´s way of living.
In the 1920s, Congress passed laws to limit to immigration. This answered to the fears and the prejudices. No more than 150,000 immigrants a year would be let into the U.S. -
This recognized amerindians as full citazens of the U.S and gave them the right to vote.