America, the world's first democracy, was discovered by Spanish explorer
Christopher Columbus in 1492. At the time there were more than 300 First
Nation (Native American Indian) tribes in North America with their own
distinct languages and customs.
In 1776,
three years after it became a democracy, America's first constitution
was adopted. More states were added to the original 13 as the nation
expanded across the North American continent. During that time it also
acquired a number of overseas territories.
Land dispossession,
disease and war drastically reduced the Native American population.
Legislation also hastened the tribes' displacement. In 1830, the Indian
Removal Act was passed. This provided for the general resettlement of
Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River. From 1830 to
1840 approximately 60,000 Native Americans were forced to migrate. Of
some 11,500 Cherokees moved in 1838, about 4,000 died along the way.
The two
major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War
(1861-65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Buoyed by victories
in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains
the world's most powerful nation-state. North America is situated on
the borders of the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean,
between
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