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History of the United States

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A Brief History of The United States of America

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The history of the United States began with the settlement of Indigenous people before 15,000 BC. Numerous cultures formed. The arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 started the European colonization of the Americas. Most colonies formed after 1600. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After defeating France, the British government imposed a series of new taxes after 1765, rejecting the colonists' argument that new taxes needed their approval. Tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1773), led to punitive laws by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts.
    • Early America 

    • European colonization 

    • Road to independence 

    • American Revolution 

    • Early years of the republic 

    • Westward expansion 

    • Sectional conflict and Civil War 

    • Growth and industrialization 

    • Discontent and reform 

    • War, prosperity, and depression 

    • Postwar America 

    • Decades of change 

    • 21st century 

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