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America - an overview

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A brief (15 minutes or so) run through of American History for APUSH Exam

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America before the rush of colonists from Europe it wasn't exactly empty Native American tribes that lived amongst the Rolling Hills and Greenwoods for sin Reese before Columbus bumped into them trying to find his way to India in 1492 after that European swarmed the place often times taking advantage of completely Exterminating the native tribes in their way many different nations settled in what was the become the United States including the English Dutch Spanish in the but the question of who would ultimately control North America was decided during the French and Indian War in 1767 and not named considering with the two sides fighting with which allied with some native tribes and the British ultimately the British one and gain control of what we now call the first 13 colonies today the 13 red and white stripes on the American flag represent these are Regional colonies  the American settlers all nominally British citizens soon group where to being harassed by unfair laws imposed by the British king far across the seat there maybe tempers flared in the first shots of the American Revolution were fired even separated from America by a large ocean written still managed to send a large army in for a few years the small American Force was outmanned and outgunned and starving did pretty well in battles at Saratoga Trenton and Bunker Hill but they were spending their winners freezing at Valley Forge trying out last of better supplied British finally with the assistance of French troops and ships the British were sure didn't trapped at Yorktown in 1781 when British General Cornwallis surrendered it was truly the birth of the United States of America after stumbling a little bit with a set of laws didn't really work all the Articles of Confederation which finally came up with the 1787 country got underway what Way West after Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana purchase wine large portions of the south from Americans could really start spreading from sea to shining sea politicians of the time even had a word for the belief that Americans were supposed to do this they called it best Destiny it was a bloody time Indians resisted to settlers Mexico resisted the settlers and even the British decided to tangle with us again in the War of 1812 the British even managed to burn Washington DC before a peace treaty was signed  Neil all the nation was splitting into over the question of favoring states rights the north was more industrialized for populated while the South have less people was based on farming and ranching turn up the country try to tell the other what to do when it cause problems  the country hoe together long enough to fight the Mexican war 1846 gaining the territories of the West California for the United States tension over the issue of slavery in the South sectional conflict soon erupted it into outright violence when the turn State's chose to secede from the Union in 1861 the stage was set for the bloodiest conflict our country has ever witnessed look Civil Wars went to the same country fight each other over control the American Civil War from 1861-1865 was a long and bloody conflict under General Robert E Lee that can turn armies one substantial victories for the first three years of the war eventually however the greater supplies Manpower and Firepower of the Union Army took its toll the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point of the war  the Confederates lost that battle and though the conflict lasted for 2 more years federacy was literally last leg President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation might have made it easy on the south rejoin the country who was assassinated in Ford's Theater by a rebel sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth the north got angry I will determine at he just south of lesson Northerners ran Southern governments Civil War and Northern politicians soldiers and con artists typically called Carpetbaggers flooded the South during the Reconstruction eventually the wounds of the Civil War began to men  the Native American tribes outnumbered and outgunned eventually succumb to the forces last they can do very little to stop the theft of their ancestral Homes at the same time Technology Group by Leaps and Bounds during the Industrial Revolution America population skyrocketed in the country began to spread its influence throughout the world American was all set to become a world power all it needed was a trigger that sugarcane when the USS Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana Cuba that time no one really knows how to make the United States in with the war with Spain the great hero of the Spanish-American war was Theodore Teddy Roosevelt who along with his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill patricky and meet position the u.s. won the war and Teddy Roosevelt became president determine to further America's advancement as a world power even as America in the mightiest Nation on our side of the Atlantic the other side news for the first time as Millions died in the mud of France during the Great War America managed to stay out of the conflict until Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare meaning I think any shift crossing the Atlantic towards their enemies Britain and France even American ones when the ocean liner Lusitania was hit by Torpedoes and Salk litebig intern  when the German sent telegrams Mexico urgent Mexico to take over u.s. territory that was all President Woodrow Wilson needed to urge America the war less than a year after our interests of the war Germany surrendered it was made to sign a humiliating tree until the Treaty of Versailles to keep the country everyone blamed for starting or in the midst of a depression and spare meanwhile back in the USA by President Wilson's hope to establish a League of Nations to prevent any further world Moore's most Americans were the rules business the casualties are in the Great War play twenties thanks for looking up people were making more money things are good America tried to Outlaw the consumption or sell alcohol during the prohibition the monsters like Al Capone who made a ton of money by smuggling into stuff by the truckload eventually prohibition was overturned it was simply an unworkable idea then it happened in 1929 stock market crash banks closed when its bankruptcy Millions their jobs times were tough only the presidency of Franklin relation of Teddy and his new deals lost a lot of Merica to slowly climb back to where we been he was elected president for four terms almost 16 years because most Americans couldn't stand have anyone that FDR pulling the strings he was the first and last have that opportunity in a minute to the Constitution was made limiting present two terms in Europe War was growing again his Nazi party soon began to control everything in Germany but his Ambitions were higher in 1939 the Nazi army invaded Poland France again War calling on the US for help for a second time we resisted getting into a World War Germany quickly conquered almost all of Continental Europe you seem nothing stop the Nazi machine on December 7th 1941 the Japanese angered by us Embargo of minerals a desperately-needed launches attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii the world never be the same America jumped into the fight swinging the planner of the Japanese attack famously said that he feared Pearl Harbor to simply walk into Sleeping Giant and filled him with a terrible resolve he was right America plunge the war in Europe taking part in battles in North Africa and then on June 6th 1944 your of itself it was D-Day pain under the command of Dwight the eyes American forces were an important part of the Allied invasion of Normandy at the same time Allied victories at Midway Guadalcanal pushed American forces closer to victory over the Annie's the German surrender first Berlin surrounded Hitler dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the Head shortly there after FDR died it was replaced by vice president Harry Truman it was Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan ending the war in the face of a larger nuclear nightmare no that's a nightmare would engulf the world's in the next 40 years they called it the Cold War because no real shots were fired but the battle lines are clearly drawn in the east Soviet Union communist government determine to spread communism around the world in the west United States boys to spread democracy to every corner of the Earth the two sides place to make the biggest weapons raced have the most weapons all it would take would be one finger on the red button in the US suspected Communists around if I say that my Senator Joe McCarthy when that Crusade became too overzealous it was crushed and not before the damage has been done President John F Kennedy as we ever elected try to stem the tide of hatred it was a lost cause during the Cuban Missile Crisis when we learn the Soviets and place listick warheads and Q what's 90 miles from us Shores the world came to the brink of an atomic war having averted that conflict JFK was poised for a second term before he was assassinated in Dallas Texas 1963 from Dallas Texas The Flash apparently official President Kennedy died at p.m. Central Standard time to Eastern Standard Time some 38 minutes ago America became an old another wash Korea where he fought to keep the Communist North Koreans from defeating the Democratic South Koreans Vietnam we fought to keep the Communist North in the Democratic sound Korea in Edina strategic draw while Vietnam drag on for so long cause the deaths of so many people at home find out for it to end we definitely cannot afford to stop in the midst of a shooting war and take time out to the bait well Iowa past actions was found on I want more than any human being and all the world The Killing stopped pulled out for the war truly ended leaving Vietnam to the communist government at the same time push truly see all Americans as equals was led by Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights Movement like anybody I would like to live  alarm light longevity hazard play  I'm not concerned about that now I just want to do God's will and he allowed me to go up to the mountain  miles per gallon from six episode Stars dr. King's death dedicated to life to love and Justice between argument  set volume to a black you can be filled with internet  I'm a patriot or we can make tampered replace that violence with an effort to understand compassion pause assassination of Robert F Kennedy Malcolm X and Martin Luther King marked point highest tension in the Civil Rights Movement combined with anti Vietnam War protesters and the increasing youth movement the 60s were a time great turmoil it was also a Time the Great Discovery  a 1969 fulfilling John F Kennedy's promise mankind first set foot on the Moon president Richard Nixon was responsible for ending Gordon Vietnam most often remembered as the only u.s. president to have ever resigned the office he was over break-in at the Watergate Hotel a break we need to leave here authorized and then covered up America's trust and its own government will never be the same the 70s were also at look great turmoil even during events like the Olympic Games during the Munich Olympics Israeli athletes were kidnapped and eventually killed by pal minion terrorist  in response to u.s. support of Israel during that time OPEC which controls most of the world's oil decided to stop shipping gasoline the United States the gas crisis this part of a larger reception times were tough America's economy recovered under President Reagan former actor-turned-politician Reagan was also the president who saw the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union  even with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War conflict is no stranger to our modern world what's the temporal Evan 2001 terrorist hijack several American civilian aircraft in the World Trade Center towers were struck turns and eventually collapsed is the beginning what percent George W bush with called war against terrorism a war that continues to this very day like you students America's come on always says it was born  that has even further to go there's no questions comments or strains of axed I will see you later

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