BRIEF HISTORY:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NATIONAL BIRD: BALD

EAGLE

Capital City: Washington DC

50 stars on the flag represent the 50

states of the United States of America,
and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen
British colonies that declared independence
from the Kingdom of Great Britain

Early Americans grew peppers, pumpkins, gourds, squash,

beans and potatoes. Later, they grew corn or maize.

Christopher Columbus reached the islands in the Caribbean

sea in 1492.

Amerigo
Vespucci

Crest of the Virginia Company, which was a joint stock

company that was responsible for the establishment of
the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607.

Boston Tea Party, December

1773

The presentation of the Declaration of Independence in what is

now called Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

WHAT IS SLAVERY?
A slave is someone who is
owned by another
person.
A slave has:
No freedom
No money
No choice.

The first slaves in the Americas colonies arrived on a Dutch ship in

Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
Over the next 200 years, around 600,000 more slaves were brought
to the American colonies.
Most of them work the tobacco and cotton fields.

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

The American Civil War, War of Secession or War Between

States, was fought since 1861 until 1865 in the Unites States
between the Northern States, who were against slavery and
the 11 Southern states who were pro-slavery.

In the North the President was Abraham Lincoln and in the

South, Jefferson Davis.

Over time, the Northern and Southern states developed different

ways of life. The South had an agricultural economy based on
growing cotton which depended on the labor of enslaved African
Americans.

In the North, industries created a manufacturing economy and

many Northerners wanted to abolish slavery as they thought
slavery was wrong.

Thousand of slaves escaped to the North for freedom. However in

1860, one third of the total population of slaves was not free.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln, an opponent of slavery was elected

president a house divided against itself cannot stand , he said,
This government cannot endure permanently half-slave and halffree.

Eleven southern states left the United States and formed the
Confederate States of America. Fighting began between this group
and the United States in April 1861. That marked the start of the
American Civil War.

CONFEDERATE STATES

After Lincoln won the election of 1860, the Southern States

issued their Declaration of the Causes of Secession, giving
the reason why they were separating from the Union. They
believed that Lincoln was anti-slavery and in favor of Northern
interests. They felt that they were losing representation so they
seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States. Their
president was Jefferson Davis.

EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR

Emancipation Proclamation On January 1 st,1 863,president

Lincoln declared all slaves liberated and free.

Deaths The Civil War was by far the deadliest war in American
history. Well over 600 000 people died.

Reconstruction The period of time after the Civil War is known

as Reconstruction. During this difficult era, the Southern states
were gradually admitted back into the Union and the areas
destroyed during the war were rebuilt.

Lincolns Death Five days after he won the war he was murdered
in a theatre with a shot on his head by John Wilkes Booth.

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