America is made up of many different ethnicities. It was first discovered 15,000 years ago, when a tribe of Siberians or Mongolians crossed a land bridge that connected Alaska to Asia. The land bridge sank, and the visitors stayed in Alaska. A Viking sailed from Greenland to America, and established a colony. He called it Vinland, but the colony failed. The Vikings did therefore not take over the United States. Spain, however, knew that spice trade was the most successful product of commence, and desperately attempted to become part of the trade. Therefore, they sponsored Columbus, who’s plan was to reach the east by heading west. When doing so, they stumbled upon America, thinking it was the east Indies. They called the inhabitants “Indians”. The Spaniards colonized most of central and south America. This made Spain the most striking nation in Europe. There was almost one hundred years after Columbus, before England created their first colony in the New World. A settlement in Jamestown, which started planting Tobacco, lead to a huge success. The Pilgrims in England heard of this, and set out for Virginia. They ended up in Massachusetts. Half of the them died, and the rest survived mainly because of the Native Americans, the Indians, who taught them how to survive and what to plant. The Pilgrims later invited the Native Americans for a three-day feast, now known as Thanksgiving. The American people have been made up and developed from many ethnicities, like the Europeans, Asians and Mongolians. 

Paragraph about slavery and the civil war 

In the early 1600s colonial officials (in the American colonies) found it difficult to attract and retain laborers under the harsh frontier conditions. And because of this, they began to import slaves from Africa. The first African slaves to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, and were brought by Dutch traders. The importation of slaves continued to increase during the 1700s and reached a peak in the early 1800s. In the late 1700s there was a movement to abolish slavery, or at least the slave trade, in the UK and the US. Beginning during the revolution and in the first two decades of the post-war era, every state in the north abolished slavery, ending with new jersey in 1804. In 1807, the US made the importation of new slaves illegal. America`s westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the north, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American civil war. The war ended in 1864, and the Union victory freed the nation`s 4 million slaves. 

American History 

In this period of the subject English, we have been focusing on American history. We have looked at different factors in the development of America that shaped it into what it is today, with the influence of conflicts and immigration. To learn about this topic, we have read different texts which explains the main events that is important when it comes to explaining the creation of America. Both texts have gone back hundreds of years to explain the whole process, even with small details such as names of Indian tribes. I think it is good that they included such details since it completes the text and fulfills my expectations. The texts were written in a chronological order, that means the text started where the actual story started and told it in order. It starts out telling us about how people from Asia travelled over the ocean and settled. It further tells us about the development and conflicts inside the American border, how the economy grew and how every country wanted a piece of land. 

The United States' involvement in Vietnam was mainly due to a suspicion of the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory meant that if one nation became communist, other nations around it would also fall to communism. The American government supported the South Vietnamese government in fear of the Soviet influence spreading across Asia. Half a million US troops were placed in Vietnam by 1967, and by the time the last soldiers returned in 1975, 58 000 Americans had been killed and 2000 soldiers were still missing in action. The exceptional thing about this specific war, was that 61% of the American soldiers were 19 years old or younger. Actually, a large quota of the American public was against the conflict, because gruesome acts of war were televised. The aftermath for the veterans were not easy. They had a feeling of failure after losing the war for the first time. In fact, more than 20 000 veterans committed suicide.  

Late 15-hundreds, Spain started to colonize in America. Of hundreds of years, Christians had felt a superior over the Muslims and coloured people. In Spain, they wanted to remove the Muslims from their country, but still use them as workers. They started to think about colonization. They financed Christopher Columbus on his voyage. His voyage was the first step of Spanish colonisation. They settled for the most in the middle and the south America, in addition some places in the north. They established slave plantations and served on it. In the first colonial period, 1,86 million of Spaniards settled in the Americas. That made Spain the most splendid nation in Europe. 

America has gone through a lot of happenings throughout the history. One of the most important happening many would say was when Columbus discovered America by accident. Christopher Columbus were actually supposed to find a shorter seaway to India, the plan was to sail around the earth west way instead off the east way. When Columbus discovered America, it was a unique event.  Shortly after America was discovered people heard of the opportunity. Religious people wanted to go to America to flee from the religious hostile culture so they could worship their god as much as they wanted. Later after the first thirteen colonies were built, the people who lived there were tired of the English men having so high taxes. So, they started a revolution for independence. 

The early colonization of America contributed to the multicultural America we all know today. At the very beginning indigenous people settled in before 10.000 BC. Multiple cultures were formed at the time. The European colonization of America started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus first arrived. However, most colonies were not formed until after 1600. The French built small settlements along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast, and the Spanish in Florida and the Southwest. Thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people along the Atlantic Coast east of the Appalachian Mountains by the 1770s. When the French and Indian Wars came to an end in the 1760s, the British government imposed new taxes, neglecting the colonists' argument that the new taxes needed their approval. This tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party in 1773 contributed to punitive laws that the Parliament designed in order to end self-government in Massachusetts.  

 

In the WWI the U.S. did not want to be a part of the war until an American merchant ship was attacked by a German submarine in 1917. Germany was also responsible for other attacks against American merchant ships. As a consequence, of the attacks, the U.S. had declared war against Germany. The U.S. made its major contributions in terms of supplies, raw material, and money. Thanks to the U.S. involvement the WWI ended in 1918. 

 The cold war occupied in the post war time after the second world war. This war, was an indirect war between the Soviet Union and the US, because there was never any direct contact between the two sides that took part. The main reason behind this war was to show the rest of the world wich country was the most powerful one, therefore the war mainly consisted of different competitions between the two parts. 

Throughout the history, the Europeans have had a big influence on the United States. In the beginning, the United States was inhabited solely by Native Americans. After a few visits from other civilizations such as China and the Vikings, Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. At first, they thought they had found another way to reach India, and therefore, they mistakenly called the inhabitants "Indians". When they realized that they had discovered a new continent, they started placing colonies there instead since imperialism was the newest fashion among the current global powers (such as France, Britain, Spain and Portugal etc.). While most of the countries was occupied with their own internal affairs, Spain quickly looted all of South- and Central America for all its gold, and established slave-driven plantations on the new world. England decided they wanted some of the share as well, but found out they were a century late to the party, and did not find any gold or other valuable materials. What they found however, was a lush new land where people who wished for a new chance, could move and begin a new life. The Europeans did not care about the inhabitants who already lived there, and most of them died due to diseases brought from Europe. 

America was a great discovering for the superpowers.

After a few visits from other civilizations such as China and the Vikings, Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. They thought they had found another way to reach India, and therefore, they mistakenly called the inhabitants "Indians". When they realized that they had discovered a new continent, they started placing colonies there instead since imperialism was the newest fashion among the current global powers (such as France, Britain, Spain and Portugal etc.). While most of the countries was occupied with their own internal affairs, Spain quickly looted all of South- and Central America for all its gold, and established slave-driven plantations on the new world. England decided they wanted some of the share as well, but found out they were a century late to the party, and did not find any gold or other valuable materials. What they did find however, was a lush new land where people who wished for a second start could move and begin a new life. They didn't care about the inhabitants who already lived there, and most of them died out due to diseases brought from Europe. In 1621 the native Americans taught the colonist how to eat turkey, and that's how Thanksgiving was invented, though it didn't become a national holiday until 1864.
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