Station 2 of America:USA

Hi guys, today we are going to travel USA which is a young and strong country.  USA has about three hundred years history, so it's a young country. However the United States has been a leader in scientific research,economic and technological innovation since the late 19th century. this is why it is a strong country.

Beginning in 1614, the Dutch settled along the lower Hudson River, including New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.The Mayflower transported Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.

Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War, fought from 1775 through 1781. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. Proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and endowed with "certain unalienable Rights," the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson, on July 4, 1776. That date is now celebrated annually as America'sIndependence Day. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a weak confederal government that operated until 1789.

Tensions between slave and free states mounted with arguments over the relationship between the state and federal governments, as well as violent conflicts over the spread of slavery into new states. Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the largely antislavery Republican Party, was elected president in 1860. Before he took office, seven slave states declared their secession—which the federal government maintained was illegal—and formed the Confederate States of America. With the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, the American Civil War began and four more slave states joined the Confederacy. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 declared slaves in the Confederacy to be free. Following the Union victory in 1865, three amendments to the ensured freedom for the nearly four millionAfrican Americans who had been slaves,made them citizens, and gave them voting rights. The war and its resolution led to a substantial increase in federal power.

U.S. Constitution 

After the war, the assassination of Lincoln radicalized Republican Reconstructionpolicies aimed at reintegrating and rebuilding the Southern states while ensuring the rights of the newly freed slaves

After Civil War and industrialization, the United states entered a stage of rapid development.

Though Two World War, American becomes the strongest conuntry in the world.

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