History
LET'S EXPLORE American history
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A timeline of American history
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Who were the first Americans?
The history of the first Americans, the first people who settled in the Americas, dates back to around 26,000 years ago. European settlers came much later, after Christopher...
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Where did the Native Americans live?
The Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Amerindians, or First Nations in Canada, were descendants of the first Americans. These were the people who first crossed into...
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When did Europeans start to settle in North America?
Soon after Columbus first landed in the Americas in 1492, Europeans set off to explore what they called the “New World”. The Italian Amerigo Vespucci sailed down the eastern...
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What caused the American Revolution?
The American Revolution took place between 1775 and 1783. After a period of growing unrest, the Thirteen Colonies in North America finally declared their independence (1776) from...
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What was life like in the American West?
In 1783, following victory in the American Revolutionary War, the new nation, the United States, extended inland from the Atlantic coast as far as the Mississippi River. The French...
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What was the Gold Rush?
In 1848, gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in California. By 1849, over 90,000 men, known as “forty-niners” after that year, had flocked to the area...
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What caused the American Civil War?
The American Civil War was fought between northern and southern states of the United States of America between 1861 and 1865. The main reason for the fighting was slavery. The...
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When did people first set foot on the Moon?
The first man to fly in a spacecraft and orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin. He was a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union (the name of the former union of Russia and its neighbouring...
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