Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Introduction
- Background Information
- Beginning and ending
of US colonization:
- 1942
- 1776
- Colonists of USA were
European until the
Declaration of Independence
- Independence of the 13 British
Colonies (present-day USA)
sparked other independence wars
across the Americas
- Independence
movements began in
1760s and ended in
1820s, and involved
most of North and
South America
- What is meant by The Americas?
- Similarities between
all American countries
- Same alphabet
- Achieved
independence at
(roughly) same time
- Predominantly
Christian
- Geographic isolation
- From each other: by
mountain ranges
- From rest of the
world: by two oceans
- Indigenous population
- Forms majority in
some places
- Largely wiped out
in some places
- 13 British Colonies
became most powerful
and largest state
- Holds influence over
the rest of the
Americas