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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of indigenous peoples around 15,000 BC. European colonization started in the late 15th century, though most colonies were settled after 1600. Thirteen British colonies were established along the Atlantic coast by the 1760s and contained over 2.5 million people. Resistance to British taxes imposed without colonial consent led to the American Revolutionary War and independence in 1776. The new nation drafted a Constitution in 1787 and Bill of Rights in 1791, establishing a strong central government. Westward expansion in the 1800s increased the nation's size but also fueled political and constitutional battles over the expansion of slavery. The American Civil War erupted in 1861 over the issue of slavery and the Union

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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of indigenous peoples around 15,000 BC. European colonization started in the late 15th century, though most colonies were settled after 1600. Thirteen British colonies were established along the Atlantic coast by the 1760s and contained over 2.5 million people. Resistance to British taxes imposed without colonial consent led to the American Revolutionary War and independence in 1776. The new nation drafted a Constitution in 1787 and Bill of Rights in 1791, establishing a strong central government. Westward expansion in the 1800s increased the nation's size but also fueled political and constitutional battles over the expansion of slavery. The American Civil War erupted in 1861 over the issue of slavery and the Union

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    The history of the United States began with the arrival of indigenous peoples around 15,000 BC. European colonization started in the late 15th century, though most colonies were settled after 1600. Thirteen British colonies were established along the Atlantic coast by the 1760s and contained over 2.5 million people. Resistance to British taxes imposed without colonial consent led to the American Revolutionary War and independence in 1776. The new nation drafted a Constitution in 1787 and Bill of Rights in 1791, establishing a strong central government. Westward expansion in the 1800s increased the nation's size but also fueled political and constitutional battles over the expansion of slavery. The American Civil War erupted in 1861 over the issue of slavery and the Union

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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first

    people in the
    Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in
    the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities
    elsewhere. The European colonization of the Americas began in the late 15th century, however most
    colonies in what would later become the United States were settled after 1600. By the 1760s, the
    thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people and were established along the Atlantic Coast east
    of the Appalachian Mountains. The Southern Colonies built an agricultural system on slave labor,
    importing slaves from Africa for this purpose. 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 sovereign state. 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, the United States expanded to the Pacific Coast. While
    the nation was large in terms of area, its population in 1790 was only four million. 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
    states in the south continued the institution, to support the kinds of large scale agriculture that
    dominated the southern economy. Precipitated by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860,
    the Civil War began as the southern states seceded from the Union to form their own pro-slavery
    country, the Confederate States of America. 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
    male slaves. The national government emerged much stronger, and gained explicit duty to protect
    individual rights. However, when white southern Democrats regained their political 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 state constitutions that legalized discrimination based on race and prevented
    most African Americans from participating in public life.

    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, granting of citizenship to many indigenous people, 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.
    [1] Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 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 culminated in using newly American invented nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    to defeat Imperial Japan in the Pacific War.

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