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USA

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History

3.	Industries and agriculture

4.	Places of interest

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New York

6.	Washington D.C.

"history:
- America was discovered before Columbus
- Spaniards kept moving from the south, in 16th century the French occupied large territories in the north of the continent
- in 16 century was established first English colony Virginia, firts prominent settlement there was called Jamestown after king James I.
- in 1620 puritans from England – Pilgrimfathers – reached the coast in the ship Mayflower
- they landed on the Massachusetts coast and founded settlement in Plymouth
- the native inhabitants helped them with food so next year they had grane (from this comes the tradition of last Thursday of November called Thanksgiving Day)
- first colonies were called New England
- in 17th century there were also French, German and Dutch colonies
- settlements in New England formed 13 colonies under the British Rule ( means striped on the flag)
- in 1754 French and Indian war brought all territory east of Mississippi under the control by British (except New Orleans (french) and Florida (spanish)
- British changed taxes from the colonies, they refused to pay so British soldiers were sent to Boston
- in 1773 colonist refused the cargo of tea and threw all the tea into the ocean – Boston Tea Party, cause of the War of Independence, Americans boycotted English trade
- George Washington, commandant of continental army, became the first president of USA
- on 4th of July 1776 continental congress began to work as a National government, approved Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson (became 3rd president)
- between 1617-1861 half a million of Africans were brought to America to work as slaves
- 60 year disputes about slavery lead to the Civil War 1861-1865, first attempt to start slavery rebellion was made by John Brown
- Abraham Lincoln was elected as a president and issued Emancipation Proclamation, which promised freedom
- Union Forces (North) won after Lincoln’s assasination
- the war was really violent, took about 650 lives
- Civil War was followed by rapid industrial growth, due to that USA became world leading power
- Wilson helped to negotiate the peace treaty, which helped to establish Czechoslovakia
- in 20th century was USA successful in economy, that ended by crash of stock market, which leaded to world economic depression
- postwar – new economic expansion, standard of living became one of the highest itw"