USA history

1. USAhistory By Anamaria Mikulić

2. Christopher Columbus • In 1492 Christopher Columbo arrived in the New World • He thought he had come to India and called the people who lived there ´Indians´

3. Thanksgiving • In 1620 a group of English settlers arrived ina America on a ship called The Mayflower. • They survived their first winter thanks to the local Indians. • Americans celebrate that first successful Harvest every November with a special Thanksgiving dinner

4. The Civil War • During the 17th and 18th century,the rich landowners who grew cotton,tobacco and rice brought over 6 milion men,women and children from West Africa. • They all became slaves and worked hard on the farms in the South. • Slavery was the cause of the Civil War between the South and theNorth, fought from 1860 to 1865.

5. Abraham Lincoln • Abraham Lincon was against slavery. • He believed that ´all men were born Equal´ • The North won the war and slavery ended.

6. Gorge Washington • On July 4th,1776, the Americans made a Declaration of Independence from Britain. • After that they fought a war that lasted six years. • George Washington commanded their army. In 1789 he became the USA´s first president. • America´s capital is named after him.

7. Sitting Bull • Sitting Bull was a Cheif of the Sioux tribe. • He fought against the settlers because he wanted to keep his way of life. • The Sioux won the Battle of Little Big Horn and kept their land. • The last big battle of the ´Indians Wars´ was fought at Wounded Knee.

8. Inventions and events • In 1893 Henry Ford built his first car. • In 1927 Charles Lindberg flew across the Atlantic. • Between 1943 and 1945 Robert Oppenheimer and his team developed the´ world´s first bomb. • In the ´50s and ´60s Martin Luther King fought for the rights of black people.He won the Nobel Prize. • Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon in 1969.