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English mercants settled in America for business. That's when they started to settle, despite the land being already inhabitated by Native American. The first colony was Jamestown, in Virginia. -
The 13 colonies refused to be governed overseas by Great Britain. These colonies united to fight against Great Britain for their independance.
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The Treaty of Paris signed in Paris by Great Britain and the United States of America in September 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the USA. -
Louisinia was a French territory that the american president Thomas Jefferson bought for 15 million dollars to Napoleon III. It doubled the size of USA. -
Exploration & settlement in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. Commition by Thomas Jefferson ended in March 1806 -
Send by the president Andrew Jackson in 1830. Natives from the East of Mississipi had to relocate in the present day Oklahoma. The trail to go was called "the Trail of tears", because of the 4,000 cherokees deaths. -
Manifest Destiny is a concept of doing God's will by spreading their ideology and technology to the west. It is something that have to happen. -
They were a group of Americans pioneers who migrated from the Midwest to California by wagons. They ended up trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Montain, 45 of them survived thanks to cannibalism and reached California. -
About 300,000 rushed to California to pan for gold. They were called the forty-niners. The first person to find gold in California was James Marshall, in January, 1848. The Gold Rush was the bigger mass immigration of American history. California gained its nickname of ''the Golden State'' -
It was signed by Abraham Lincoln in May, 1862. It promoted settlement as well as development of the American West. The Native lost their land because of this act. -
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Railroad Act. The Transcontinental managed to connect the East and the West of the American continent. In spite of Civil War (1861-1865), he started the construction of the railway in order to unify the nation.