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1: Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
2: The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods and people between the Old World and the New World during the Age of Exploration. It is important because it led to increased trade and food production across the globe. However, it also had a negative impact on disease and slavery. -
Colonialism in the modern sense began with the "Age of Discovery", The American colonies were the British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern United States. The colonies grew both geographically along the Atlantic coast and westward and numerically to 13 from the time of their founding to the American Revolution.
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On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America. -
Great Britain imposed several laws and taxes on the colonies in an effort to exert more control over them. The colonists objected, saying it was wrong to tax them since they had no direct representation in Parliament. One drawback of this time period was the resentment of many colonists over their lack of self-government. This implied that they were unable to rule themselves and establish their own rules. The monarch demanded that they pay enormous taxes. -
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect. -
The Early Republic , was a period of transition. The new independent nation expounded the Founding Father's ideals of equality and expanded its borders beyond what was imaginable before 1776.
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At the successful conclusion of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in 1783, an American could look back and reflect on the truly revolutionary events that had occurred in the preceding three decades.
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- Years after the end of the Revolutionary War, a group of delegates drafted, signed, and approved the Constitution in 1787. After the American Revolution but before the passage of the United States Constitution, the 1780s were known as the Confederation period in American history. In reality, the American Revolution had significant long-term advantages for people all around the world, despite all of its evident sacrifices and excesses, not only for the residents of the newly established US.
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In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward. -
Antebellum is a Latin word that means “before the war.” In American history, the antebellum period refers to the years after the War of 1812 and before the Civil War. The development of separate northern and southern economies, westward expansion of the nation, and a spirit of reform marked the era.
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