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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of Native Americans over 15,000 years ago. European colonization started in the 16th century with Spain and Britain establishing colonies along the eastern coast in the 17th century. Tensions rose between the colonies and Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States in 1776. The new nation expanded westward in the 19th century, which exacerbated tensions over slavery and caused the American Civil War. The U.S. emerged as a world power in the 20th century through industrialization and involvement in World War I and World War II.

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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of Native Americans over 15,000 years ago. European colonization started in the 16th century with Spain and Britain establishing colonies along the eastern coast in the 17th century. Tensions rose between the colonies and Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States in 1776. The new nation expanded westward in the 19th century, which exacerbated tensions over slavery and caused the American Civil War. The U.S. emerged as a world power in the 20th century through industrialization and involvement in World War I and World War II.

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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of Native Americans over 15,000 years ago. European colonization started in the 16th century with Spain and Britain establishing colonies along the eastern coast in the 17th century. Tensions rose between the colonies and Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States in 1776. The new nation expanded westward in the 19th century, which exacerbated tensions over slavery and caused the American Civil War. The U.S. emerged as a world power in the 20th century through industrialization and involvement in World War I and World War II.

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    HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    The history of the United States was preceded by the arrival of Native Americans in North
    America around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many disappeared in the
    16th century. The arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 started the European colonization of
    the Americas. Most colonies were formed after 1600, and the United States was the first nation
    whose most distant origins are fully recorded. By the 1760s, the thirteen British colonies
    contained 2.5 million people and were established along the Atlantic Coast east of the
    Appalachian Mountains. After defeating France, the British government imposed a series of
    taxes, including the Stamp Act of 1765, rejecting the colonists constitutional argument that new
    taxes needed their approval. Resistance to these taxes, especially the Boston Tea Party in 1773,
    led to Parliament issuing punitive laws designed to end self-government. Armed conflict began
    in Massachusetts in 1775.

    In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the
    colonies as the "United States". Led by General George Washington, it won the Revolutionary
    War. The peace treaty of 1783 established the borders of the new nation. The Articles of
    Confederation established a central government, but it was ineffectual at providing stability as it
    could not collect taxes and had no executive officer. A convention wrote a new Constitution that
    was adopted in 1789 and a Bill of Rights was added in 1791 to guarantee inalienable rights. With
    Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief adviser, a strong central
    government was created. Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 doubled the
    size of the United States.

    Encouraged by the notion of manifest destiny, United States expanded to the Pacific Coast.
    While the nation was large in terms of area, its population in 1790 was only 4 million. The
    population grew rapidly and economic growth was even greater. Compared to European powers,
    the nation's military strength was relatively limited in peacetime before 1940. Westward
    expansion was driven by a quest for inexpensive land for yeoman farmers and slave owners. The
    expansion of slavery was increasingly controversial and fueled political and constitutional
    battles, which were resolved by compromises. Slavery was abolished in all states north of the
    Mason–Dixon line by 1804, but the South continued the institution, mostly for the production of
    cotton. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 on a platform of halting the expansion of
    slavery. Seven Southern slave states rebelled and created the foundation of the Confederacy. Its
    1861 attack on a federal fort started a Civil War. The defeat of the Confederates in 1865 led to
    the abolition of slavery. In the Reconstruction era following the war, legal and voting rights were
    extended to freed slaves. The national government emerged much stronger, and gained explicit
    duty to protect individual rights. However, when white southerners regained their power in the
    South in 1877, often by paramilitary suppression of voting, they passed Jim Crow laws to
    maintain white supremacy, as well as new disenfranchising state constitutions that prevented
    most African Americans and many Poor Whites from voting.

    The United States became the world's leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century,
    due to an outburst of entrepreneurship and industrialization and the arrival of millions of
    immigrant workers and farmers. A national railroad network was completed and large-scale
    mines and factories were established. Mass dissatisfaction with corruption, inefficiency, and
    traditional politics stimulated the Progressive movement, from the 1890s to the 1920s, leading to
    reforms, including the federal income tax, direct election of Senators, alcohol prohibition, and
    women's suffrage. Initially neutral during World War I, the United States declared war on
    Germany in 1917 and funded the Allied victory the following year. After the prosperous Roaring
    Twenties, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 marked the onset of the decade-long worldwide Great
    Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented his New Deal programs, including
    relief for the unemployed, support for farmers, Social Security, and a minimum wage. The New
    Deal defined modern American liberalism.[2] Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in
    1941, the United States entered World War II and financed the Allied war effort, and helped
    defeat Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the European theater. Its involvement later culminated
    in using newly invented nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities to defeat Imperial Japan in the
    Pacific War.

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