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HISTORY OF AMERICA
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The history of America originates with aboriginal peoples (today called Native Americans, American Indians or Amerindians) whose inhabitation of the land predates European explorers' arrival. In the latter 15th century, explorers started landing in what is now the Alaska region, but it was not until over a century later, in 1607, that colonization began as English settlers arrived in the vicinity of the James River that is Jamestown, Virginia at present.
The United States of America began as thirteen colonies along the eastern coast of the continental US. In the 1770s, American colonists fought off the British army in the American Revolutionary War, and in 1776, the Declaration of Independence, a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, announced that the thirteen American colonies were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. The signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 officially recognized America's independence from Britain. The thirteen founding states were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Westward expansion of United States territory began in the nineteenth century driven by "Manifest Destiny"-the belief that the United States would occupy all the North American land east to west, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. With the admission of Arizona to the Union in 1912, the US had reached its goal. The outlying states, Alaska and Hawaii, were later admitted in 1959.
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