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    Native Americans Experts believe that the first Americans came from Asia on a land bridge that connected Asia with present-day Alaska. Explorers and Colonists From 1775 to 1783, the Americans fought the American Revolutionary war and won their independence from Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris (1783) was the document that officially ended the war.

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    Native Americans Experts believe that the first Americans came from Asia on a land bridge that connected Asia with present-day Alaska. Explorers and Colonists From 1775 to 1783, the Americans fought the American Revolutionary war and won their independence from Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris (1783) was the document that officially ended the war.

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    Native Americans Experts believe that the first Americans came from Asia on a land bridge that connected Asia with present-day Alaska. Explorers and Colonists From 1775 to 1783, the Americans fought the American Revolutionary war and won their independence from Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris (1783) was the document that officially ended the war.

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    The Americans

    Section 3, Ch. 4
    Native Americans
    Experts believe that the first Americans
    came from Asia on a land bridge that
    connected Asia with present-day
    Alaska. Their descendants today are
    known as Native Americans.
    Explorers and Colonists
    Around A.D. 1500, Europeans arrived in the
    Americas.

    Because of the abundance of raw materials,


    European countries set up colonies in the
    Americas.

    The British colonists soon began to see


    themselves as Americans.
    Explorers and Colonists
    From 1775 to 1783, the Americans
    fought the American Revolutionary War
    and won their independence from Great
    Britain.

    The Treaty of Paris (1783) was the


    document that officially ended the war.
    The U.S. Constitution
    • In 1787 a group of American leaders
    met to create a new national
    government.
    • They wrote the United States
    Constitution, the basis for all our laws.
    • Constitutional amendments allow the
    constitution to be changed in a peaceful
    way.
    Amendments
    Bill of Rights: Amendment 11 - Judicial Limits
    Amendment 12 - Choosing the President, Vice President
    Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished
    Expression Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights
    Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms Amendment 15 - Race No Bar to Vote
    Amendment 3 - Quartering of Soldiers Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified
    Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure Amendment 17 - Senators Elected by Popular Vote
    Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Amendment 18 - Liquor Abolished
    Compensation for Takings Amendment 19 - Women's Suffrage
    Amendment 6 - Right to Speedy Trial, Amendment 20 - Presidential, Congressional Terms
    Confrontation of Witnesses Amendment 21 - Amendment 18 Repealed
    Amendment 7 - Trial by Jury in Civil Cases Amendment 22 - Presidential Term Limits
    Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Amendment 23 - Presidential Vote for District of
    Punishment Columbia
    Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution Amendment 24 - Poll Taxes Barred
    Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and Amendment 25 - Presidential Disability and Succession
    People Amendment 26 - Voting Age Set to 18 Years
    Amendment 27 - Limiting Congressional Pay Increases
    A Federal Republic
    • Our government is based upon the principle
    of democracy, or rule by the people.
    • The U.S. has a representative democracy,
    in which voters choose leaders who make
    and enforce the laws.
    A Federal Republic
    • People elected by the voters of each
    state serve in state or national
    government.
    • In this way, the U.S. is a federal republic,
    or a government divided between
    national and state powers with a
    president who leads the national
    government.
    Legislative

    Executive

    Judicial

    U.S. Government
    A Period of Growth
    • Be the mid-1800’s, the South had built an
    economy based on slave labor, an issue that
    divided the country.
    • Several Southern states seceded, or
    withdrew from the national government,
    bringing about the Civil War in 1861.
    • At the end of the war, the Southern states
    were brought back into the Union, and slavery
    was abolished.
    A Period of Growth
    Following the Civil War, economic
    growth attracted another great wave of
    people from other countries.

    These people were immigrants, or


    people who move to a new country to
    make a permanent home.
    A World Leader
    The U.S. participated in the two World
    Wars. After World War II, some groups
    of Americans - women, African
    Americans, and Hispanic Americans,
    struggled for equality.
    Security
    After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,
    2001, Americans no longer felt as safe
    as they once had. The Department of
    Homeland Security was created.

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