USA history

By Anamaria Mikulić

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´

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

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 the North, fought from 1860 to 1865.

Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincon was against slavery.

• He believed that ´all men were born Equal´

• The North won the war and slavery ended.

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.

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.

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.